Colloquium: The entangled brain: the integration of emotion, motivation, and cognition

30 January 2023

Colloquium by Prof. Dr. Luiz Pessoa, Department of Psychology and Maryland Neuroimaging Center, University of Maryland

Abstract: Research on the “emotional brain” often focuses on particular structures, such as the amygdala and the ventral striatum. In this presentation, I will discuss research that embraces a distributed view of both emotion- and motivation-related processing, as well as efforts to unravel the impact of emotion and motivation across large-scale cortical-subcortical brain networks.

In the framework presented, emotion and motivation have broad effects on brain and behavior, leading to the idea of the “entangled brain” where brain parts dynamically assemble into coalitions that support complex cognitive-emotional behaviors. According to this view, it is argued that decomposing brain and behavior in terms of standard mental categories (perception, cognition, emotion, etc.) is counterproductive.

Further information about the speakers can be found here: mnc.umd.edu/faculty/pessoa

We organise the present talk as an online lecture (Zoom details will follow). Credit Points can be obtained as usual as long as you participate for the whole duration of the talk. We look forward to seeing you online.

The talk is part of the SFB 936 Methods Academy and will be streamed live via Zoom:
Contact the SFB secretariat to get access.

Date and time: Monday, 30.01.2023 17:00-18:30 Zoom lecture