At some point in time I have found myself at Vassar, Harvard, City College NY, Yale, Stanford, and the University of Toronto. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Staten Island, I am happy to be back in my home state of NY and hoping to live up to Cornell's land grant mission.
I am interested in the role of the emotions in all human faculties. Considering both psychological, physiological and neural levels of analysis, a guiding principle in my work is understanding the function of emotions as distinct tools intended to help rather than hurt us.
I teach courses on the psychology and neurscience of emotion and how to use scientific evidence to change how we view our own emotions. A new direction has been to involve students into research on their own physiology as a unique new perspective on the emotions and the self.
HD6720
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Advanced Topics in Emotion Research
HD4720
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Emotion, Cognition and Brain
HD3660
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Social and Affective Neuroscience
HD2200
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Cognitive Neuroscience
Todd, R., Miskovic, V., Chikazoe, J. & Anderson A.K (2020) Emotional Objectivity: Neuroscience of emotion and its interactions with cognition. Annual Review of Psychology, 71.
Hu, K., DeRosa, E. & Anderson, A.K.(2018). Differential temporal salience of earning and saving. Nature Communications, 9(1),2843.
Chikazoe, J., Lee, D., Kriegekorte, N, Anderson A.K. (2014). Population level coding of affect across stimuli, modalities and individuals. Nature Neuroscience, 17:1114-22.
Chapman, H.A., Kim, D.A., Susskind, J.M. & Anderson, A.K. (2009). In Bad Taste: Evidence for the Oral Origins of Moral Disgust. Science, 27:1222-1226.
Susskind, J., Lee, D., Cusi, A., Feinman, R. & Grabski, W. Anderson, A.K. (2008). Expressing fear enhances sensory acquisition. Nature Neuroscience, 11(7): 843-50.
Rowe G, *Hirsh JB, Anderson AK. (2007). Positive affect increases the breadth of attentional selection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(1):383-8.
Anderson A.K., Christoff K., Stappen I., *Panitz D., Ghahremani D.G., Glover G., Gabrieli J.D., Sobel N. (2003). Dissociated neural representations of intensity and valence in human olfaction. Nature Neuroscience, 6(2):196-202
Anderson, A.K., & Phelps, E.A. (2001). Lesions of the human amygdala impair enhanced perception of emotionally salient events. Nature, 411, 305-309
With the assistance of Engaged Cornell, we have designed and implemented in inner city Syracuse NY a neuroscience early education program "Get to Know Your Brain Days". This program involves engaging Cornell undergraduates in community based research and mentorship of high school students to engage K-5th grade students in learning about themselves through understanding how their brains create thoughts, emotions and behavior.
Member, MRI User Advisory Committee
Chair, Departmental Space Allocation Committee
Undergraduate, Education Committee
Committee, Graduate Admissions
Chair, Mentorship Committee
Search Committee, HD Faculty
Executive Committee, HD
post-doctoral training,
cognitive and affective neuroscience,
Stanford University
PhD,
cognitive psychology,
Yale University
B.A.,
cognitive science,
Vassar College