Affective Neuroscience Group

Every other Wednesday, 12:30-2:00
Jordan Hall Psychology Library (4th floor, across from the elevator)
Contacts:
knutson@psych.stanford.edu
rray@psych.stanford.edu

Mission

  • Track emerging findings in affective neuroscience
  • Synthesize interdisciplinary theory related to affective neuroscience
  • Promote ongoing affective neuroscience research
  • Disseminate methods relevant to affective neuroscience

    • Readings

    2003

  • 06/25/03: What brain area computes reward prediction errors? Reading: McClure et al. (2003). Temporal prediction errors in a passive learning task activate human striatum. Neuron, 38, 339-346.O'Doherty et al. (2003). Temporal difference models and reward-related learning in the human brain. Neuron, 38, 329-337.


    • 2002

  • 09/24/02: Where does emotion modulate memory? Reading: Gray JR, Braver TS, Raichle M (2002). Integration of emotion and cognition in the lateral prefrontal cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 99, 4115-4120.
  • 09/10/02: What kinds of brain activity does social competition recruit? Reading: Kahn I, Yeshurun Y, Rotshtein P, Fried I, Ben-Bashat D, Hendler T (2002). The role of the amygdala in signaling prospective outcome of choice. Neuron, 33, 983-994.
  • 08/13/02: What kinds of brain activity does social cooperation recruit? Reading: Rilling JK, Gutman DA, Zeh TR, Pagnoni G, Berns GS, & Kilts CD (2002). A neural basis for social cooperation. Neuron, 35, 395-405. (also of interest: McCabe K, Houser D, Ryan L, Smith V, Trouard T (2001). A functional imaging study of cooperation in two-person reciprocal exchange. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 98, 11832-11835).
  • 07/30/02: Does instructed (vicarious) fear recruit the amygdala? Reading: Phelps, EA, O'Conner KJ, Gatenby C, Gore JC, Grillon C, Davis M (2001). Activation of the left amygdala to a cognitive representation of fear. Nature Neuroscience, 4, 437-441.
  • 06/04/02: Is brain dopamine activity related to drug-induced euphoria? Reading: Drevets WC, Gautier C, Price JC, Kupfer DJ, Kinahan PE, Grace AA, Price JL, & Mathis CA (2001). Amphetamine-induced dopamine release in human ventral striatum correlates with euphoria. Biological Psychiatry, 49, 81-96.
  • 05/03/02: What is the role of the amygdala in human affect? Reading: Anderson AK & Phelps, EA (2002). Is the human amygdala critical for the subjective experience of emotion? Evidence of intact dispositional affect in patients with amygdala lesions. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, In Press.
  • 04/23/02: Can reward anticipation be distinguished from outcomes in humans? Reading: Knutson B, Fong G, Adams CS, & Hommer D (2001). Dissociation of reward anticipation versus outcome with event-related FMRI. NeuroReport, 12, 3683-3687. (also of interest: O'Doherty JP, Deichmann R, Critchley HD, Dolan RJ (2002). Neural responses during anticipation of a primary taste reward, Neuron, 33, 815-826.)

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  • Please note new meeting time (as of 08/21/02): every other Wednesday from 12:30-2:00.

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    last update: 09/19/02 (bk)