Lisa Feldman Barrett
Lisa Feldman Barrett is a leading neuroscientist and psychologist whose research is redefining what we think emotions are, and how the brain constructs them. A University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University and director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory, Barrett challenges long-held notions of “universal” emotions, arguing instead that feelings are dynamic, context-dependent predictions shaped by experience, culture, and the body’s internal world.
Drawing on insights from neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy of mind, her work reveals a brain that is constantly constructing reality rather than merely perceiving it. Author of How Emotions Are Made and Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain, Barrett is at the forefront of a new science of mind, one that blurs the lines between thought, perception, and being itself.
Lisa Feldman Barrett is a leading neuroscientist and psychologist whose research is redefining what we think emotions are, and how the brain constructs them. A University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University and director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory, Barrett challenges long-held notions of “universal” emotions, arguing instead that feelings are dynamic, context-dependent predictions shaped by experience, culture, and the body’s internal world.
Drawing on insights from neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy of mind, her work reveals a brain that is constantly constructing reality rather than merely perceiving it. Author of How Emotions Are Made and Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain, Barrett is at the forefront of a new science of mind, one that blurs the lines between thought, perception, and being itself.