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Ralph Adolphs
Ralph Adolphs (PhD '93)
Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Biology
Expertise
Cognitive neuroscience; neuropsychology; neuroscience of emotion; social neuroscience
Profile
Adolphs works with a variety of tools, including fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging), eye tracking, and recording electrical activity in the brain to see how people recognize, perceive, and process emotions and other social cues in facial expressions. He studies individuals with various neurological profiles, including those with focal brain damage, autism, Williams syndrome, and neurosurgical patients who have electrodes in their brains.
Languages Spoken
English;
Faculty Bio
B.S., Stanford University, 1986; M.S., 1986; Ph.D., Caltech, 1993. Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, 2004-05; Bren Professor, 2005-; Professor of Biology, 2005-17; Davis Leadership Chair, 2017-21; Director, Caltech Brain Imaging Center, 2008-13, 2017-21.
Caltech Affiliations
Caltech Brain Imaging Center (CBIC)
T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering (BBE)
Selected Awards
Distinguished Investigator Award, Social and Affective Neuroscience Society
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Autism Research Via Smartphone
August 21, 2024
A new study from the lab of Ralph Adolphs demonstrates that eye-tracking data for studying autism previously recorded only in laboratory settings can now be reliably duplicated with smartphones at home.
To Err Is Human
May 06, 2022
Caltech researchers discover how the brain learns to control our mistakes.
How Do You Study Facial Bias Without Bias?
December 14, 2021
Caltech researchers probe the psychology and biases involved in judging people's faces
What is Personality?
January 26, 2021
An individual's personality does not lie in their behavior or their genes but in the brain, according to a new theoretical study.
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June 25, 2020
Researchers from Caltech and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center visualize how memories are selectively retrieved in the brain.