Color Science Seminar: Affective bias: Behavioral and neurophysiological biomarkers of affect

Color Science Seminar
Affective bias: Behavioral and neurophysiological biomarkers of affect

Dr. Brian Metzger

Visiting Assistant Professor, Psychology Department
Swarthmore College

Event Details: With symptoms ranging from mood dysregulation to chronic fatigue and difficulty concentrating, depression impacts several aspects of cognition and perception. The overarching goal of my research is to understand the behavioral and neural relationships between emotion and perception, and to translate those insights into clinical outcomes. Drawing on tools from cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience, we’ll explore a theory of emotion perception called affective bias, which postulates that external stimuli are evaluated in a mood-congruent manner. We’ll review recent data linking behavior during an affective bias task to depression severity and look at some of my recent efforts to identify a neural correlate of affective bias. Finally, I’ll discuss how scalp EEG measures of cortical excitability can be used to predict affect-related cognitive impairments.

Intended Audience: All are Welcome!

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Contact
Susan Farnand
Event Snapshot
When and Where
January 24, 2025
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Room/Location: 1345
Who

This is an RIT Only Event

Interpreter Requested?

No

Topics
research