Reading Emotions* is a research interest group, bringing together affective neuroscientists 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 mid-June, in the beautiful campus of the University of Reading


Our research expertise covers:
  • Emotion perception and regulation
  • Emotional and regulatory development across the life-span
  • Emotion-cognition interaction, including decision-making, attentional and inhibitory processes
  • Pain, its experience, regulation and management
  • Genetics of socio-emotional behaviour
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       etonnement and adversion" in Louis Charles
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       Wellcome Library, London.
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    The methods we use include:
    • 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 our individual research pages (e.g. from here), and the webpages of the Psychopathology and Affective Neuroscience Research Division, and the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics (CINN)


    * pun intended

    https://sites.google.com/site/readingemotions