Fellowship
Behavioral Neurology, The University of Iowa, College of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Iowa City, IA 1993-1997

Honors and Awards

• James S. McDonnell Foundation " 21st Century Science" Award in Bridging Mind, Brain, and Behavior, 2002
• Klingenstein Award in the Neurosciences, 2000
• EJLB Foundation Scholar Research Award, 1998
• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 1998
• Joanne S. Diamond Award and Invited Lecture in Behavioral Neurobiology, Duke
• University, Durham, NC, 1996
• Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellowship, sponsored by the Burroughs-Welcome Fund, 1993-1996
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute Graduate Fellowship, 1988-1992
• Gordon Ross Graduate Fellowship, Caltech, 1987
• Evelyn Sharp Graduate Fellowship, Caltech, 1986
• Honors Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry, Stanford University, 1983
• President's Award for Academic Excellence, Stanford University, 1983

Professional Activities/ Editorial Boards

• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• New York Academy of Sciences
• American Psychological Society
• American Physiological Society
• Society for Neuroscience
• Memory Disorders Research Society
• Society for Machines and Mentality
• Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
• Cognitive Neuroscience Society

Professional Affiliations

Clinical Interests

Research Interests
I am interested in social cognition and emotion in humans. We are applying the lesion method to studies of the recognition of emotion in facial expressions, stories, tone of voice, music, and film, as well as to studies of social judgment. We have found that the human amygdala, together with cortical structures in right hemisphere, are key structures for these capacities. We are also investigating the ways in which emotion can influence other cognitive processes, such as decision-making and memory.

Recent Publications/ Reviews
R. Adolphs (2002). "Neural Mechanisms for Recognizing Emotion." Current Opinion in Neurobiology 12: 169-178.

R. Adolphs (2002). "Recognizing Emotion From Facial Expressions: Psychological and Neurological Mechanisms." Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews 1: 21-61.

H. Kawasaki, R. Adolphs, O. Kaufman, H. Damasio, A.R. Damasio, M. Granner, H. Bakken, T. Hori and M.A. Howard (2001). "Single-unit responses to emotional visual stimuli recorded in human ventral prefrontal cortex." Nature Neuroscience 4:15-16.

R. Adolphs (2001). "The Neurobiology of Social Cognition." Current Opinion in Neurobiology 11: 231-239.

R. Adolphs, H. Damasio, D.Tranel, G.Cooper and A.R. Damasio (2000). "A Role for Somatosensory Cortices in the Visual Recognition of Emotion as Revealed by 3-D Lesion Mapping." The Journal of Neuroscience 20: 2683-2690.

R. Adolphs, D. Tranel, A.R. Damasio (1998). "The Human Amygdala in Social Judgment." Nature 393: 470-474.

R. Adolphs, D. Tranel, H. Damasio, A. Damasio (1994). "Impaired Recognition of Emotion in Facial Expressions Following Bilateral Damage to the Human Amygdala". Nature 372: 669-672.

Address
Caltech, Pasadena 91125
Caltech Emotion and Social Cognition Laboratory
E-mail: radolphs@hss.caltech.edu