Elliot Berkman Author

Elizabeth "Liz" Phelps is the Pershing Square Professor of Human Neuroscience at Harvard University. Her lab, The Human Neuroscience of Affect, Learning, and Decision-making, researches the ways that emotions influence learning, memory, and decision-making. She has won many awards, most recently the prestigious George Miller Prize in Cognitive Neuroscience. Liz has served as president of the Association for Psychological Science, the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society, and the Society for Neuroeconomics. Elliot Berkman is Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon. His Social and Affective Neuroscience lab researches the motivational and cognitive factors that contribute to success and failure of real-world goals, as well as the neural systems that support goal pursuit. He has won numerous awards for early career research and teaching. His blog, The Motivated Brain, is located at Psychology Today, and he tweets as @Psychologician. Michael Gazzaniga is the director of the SAGE Center for the Study of Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his PhD from the California Institute of Technology, where he worked with Roger Sperry and had primary responsibility for initiating human split-brain research. He has established Centers for Cognitive Neuroscience at Cornell Medical School; the University of California, Davis; and Dartmouth College. He is founder of the Cognitive Neuroscience Institute and founding editor of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. He was a member of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2001 to 2009. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Academy of Sciences.