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Awardee

Ralph Adolphs, Ph.D.

Investigator, Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain

SFARI Investigator

SFARI Scientific Review Board

Affiliations
  • Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience and Biology, California Institute of Technology

Publications

The geometry of domain-general performance monitoring in the human medial frontal cortex

Science, May 6, 2022

Z Fu, D Beam, JM Chung, CM Reed, AN Mamelak, R. Adolphs, et al.

A data resource from concurrent intracranial stimulation and functional MRI of the human brain

Sci Data., August 5, 2020

WH Thompson, R Nair, H Oya, O Esteban, JM Shine, CI Petkov, et al.

Flexible recruitment of memory-based choice representations by the human medial frontal cortex

Science, June 26, 2020

J Minxha, R. Adolphs, S. Fusi, AN Mamelak, and U Rutishauser

Abstract goal representation in visual search by neurons in the human pre-supplementary motor area.

Brain., September 24, 2019

S Wang, AN Mamelak, R. Adolphs, and U Rutishauser

Projects

Fluorescence microscopy image showing a network of bright green nerve fibers connecting to a cluster of yellow and red cellular structures.

Global Brain

Simons Collaboration
Digital image of neon diagram as brain

Outer brain and inner brain: computational principles and interactions

Funded Work

Featuring Ralph Adolphs

Young teenage girl and child therapist during EEG neurofeedback session. Electroencephalography concept.

2022 SFARI Human Cognitive and Behavioral Science Awardees Announced

Events

Social Cognition, Autism and the Human Brain

Lecture

October 9, 2024

6–7 p.m. ET

Speaker

Ralph Adolphs

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By Ralph Adolphs

Octopus adjusts its fear behavior depending on the intensity of a threat

Rediscovering Emotion in the Brain

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