Symbolic Systems Forum - John Gabrieli, Psychology Department

John Gabrieli, Psychology Department, "Regulation of Thoughts, Feelings, and Memories in the Human Brain"

ABSTRACT:

A fundamental human ability is the voluntarily control or regulation of mental states. I will talk about recent functional neuroimaging studies that elucidate the neural mechanisms underlying such regulation for thinking, for the reappraisal of negative emotions, and for the repression of unwanted memories. I will also talk about the ability of people to regulate focal brain activation itself through real-time feedback from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

BIO:

John Gabrieli is a Professor of Psychology in the Neurosciences Program. His area of research is human cognitive neuroscience in which he studies the brain basis of memory, language, and thought. His research examines both normal brain functions and diseases of those functions that occur in Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, stroke, epilepsy, dyslexia, and attention deficit disorder.