Ralph Adolphs
Caltech neuroscientist who studies emotion and social cognition.
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- Ralph Adolphs is Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Biology at Caltech.
- He studies how people recognize and process emotions and other social cues, for example in faces.
- His lab uses brain imaging, eye tracking and recordings from neurosurgical patients, and studies people with brain damage, autism and Williams syndrome.
- He was at the University of Iowa before moving to Caltech in 2004.
Key facts
- Position
- Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Biology, Caltech (Bren Professor from 2005)1
- Research
- Neuroscience of emotion and social cognition: how people recognize emotions in faces, make social and moral judgments, and why people with autism find social behavior hard1
- Before
- Postdoctoral fellow, then faculty, University of Iowa, from 1993 to 2004; adjunct appointment in its Department of Neurology1
- Led
- Caltech Brain Imaging Center, 2008 to 2013 and 2017 to 20211
- Education
- BS and MS, Stanford University (1986); PhD, Caltech (1993)1
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