Darin Brown

CONTACT: dabrown14@unm.edu

Research Interests:

What came first: the crooning sad song or the heartbreak? Do emotions drive behavior, or does behavior drive emotion?
In order to answer these questions it is important to understand the mechanisms of emotions. How does the brain integrate emotionally salient environmental information and how do these emergent constructs inform us about our reality?
My research interests involve the utilization of EEG in order to carry out investigations of the neural mechanisms of emotion processing, and how these mechanisms lend themselves to processes such as learning, reward processing, cognitive control, time perception, and memory.

Publications:

Brown, D. R., & Cavanagh, J. F. (2018). Rewarding images do not invoke the reward positivity: They inflate it. International Journal of Psychophysiology.

Brown, D. R., & Cavanagh, J. F. (2017). The sound and the fury: Late positive potential is sensitive to sound affect. Psychophysiology, 54(12), 1812-1825.

Cavanagh, J. F., Mueller, A. A., Brown, D. R., Janowich, J. R., Story-Remer, J. H., Wegele, A., & Richardson, S. P. (2017). Cognitive states influence dopamine-driven aberrant learning in Parkinson's disease. Cortex, 90, 115-124.

Educational History:

2014-present: Graduate Student, Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico | Albuquerque, NM | Cognitive Rhythms and Computation Lab

2011-2013: M.S., Psychology, Department of Psychology, California State University Los Angeles, CA | Human Psychophysiology Laboratory

2009-2011: B.A., Psychology, Department of Psychology, California State University, Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA