Reading Emotions
Reading Emotions* is a research interest group, bringing together affective neuroscientists and researchers in psychopathology at the University of Reading, and our collaborators in the UK and internationally.
We organise the annual Reading Emotions symposium, an inter-disciplinary affective neuroscience meeting. It is typically held in June, in the beautiful campus of the University of Reading.
Details of past installments of the symposium can be found here.
"llustrations of heads showing joye, tristesse, etonnement and adversion" in Louis Charles d'Ourches Bigarures' manuscript (1705-14), Wellcome Library, London.
Our research expertise
Emotion perception and regulation
Emotional and regulatory development across the life-span
Emotion-cognition interaction, including decision-making, attentional and inhibitory processes
The brain and body physiology underpinning cognitive and affective processes
Emotion and psychopathology
Our methods
Functional, structural, and resting-state magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS)
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
Electroencephalography (EEG)
Eye gaze tracking
Psychophysiology (galvanic skin responses, electromyography, heart rate measures)
Peripheral physiology (pubertal and hormonal (e.g. cortisol) analysis)
Computational modelling
Video coding of child behaviour and parent/child interactions
Genetic association
For more information about our work, publications, and research environment, please visit the webpages of the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, and the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics (CINN).
* pun intended
