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Portrait photo of Ralph Adolphs

Awardee

Ralph Adolphs, Ph.D.

SFARI Investigator

SFARI Scientific Review Board

Investigator, Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain

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

Publications

Variability and stability of autistic traits in the general population: A systematic comparison between online and in-lab samples.

Personality Neuroscience, 2025

Qianying Wu, Qianhui Hong, Na Yeon Kim, Ralph Adolphs, Lynn K Paul, and Caroline J Charpentier

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, Ralph 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, Ralph Adolphs, Stefano Fusi, AN Mamelak, and U Rutishauser

Projects

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

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SFARI April 2015 Science Meeting Held at Foundation

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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SFARI is the Simons Foundation’s autism research program, advancing the basic science of autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders through funding, collaboration, and open science.

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