Karolinska Institutet Psychology Speaker Series: Professor Lisa Feldman Barrett
The KI Psychology Speaker Series at Nobel Forum features some of the most influential researchers of today in the realms of mind, brain and behavior. The speaker series is hosted by the Division of Psychology at Karolinska Institutet.
The event features a live talk and Q&A with Lisa Feldman Barrett
Three lessons about the brain
The lecture will describe three aspects of brain architecture and corresponding hypotheses about their computational affordances:
1 A brain’s most important job is efficiently coordinating and regulating the systems of its body
2 as it continually constructs categories
3 that guide action and create lived experience in a metabolically efficient way.
Lisa Feldman Barrett is a Canadian-American psychologist renowned for her groundbreaking research in affective science. She is a University Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University, where she co-directs the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory. She also holds appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Barrett’s theory of constructed emotion challenges traditional views, proposing that emotions are not universal but culturally constructed by the brain. She has published more than 275 papers and authored influential books like “How Emotions are Made” and “Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain".