Affective Neuroscience: Emotions, Cognition, and Behavior Draft syllabus

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1 Affective Neuroscience: Emotions, Cognition, and Behavior Draft syllabus Semester & Location: Type & Credits: Core Course Study Tours: Major Disciplines: Faculty Members: Program Director: Fall DIS Stockholm Core Course - 3 credits Paris, France Neuroscience, Psychology Élodie Cauvet Carla Caetano - cca@dis.dk Time & Place Monday/Thursday 8:30 9:50, Location: Description of Course Prerequisite: One semester of neuroscience, physiological psychology, or biological psychology at university level Co-requisite: Enrollment in Affective Neuroscience Research Lab How do we understand the interplay of human emotions and their neural networks? This course applies findings from the interdisciplinary field of neuroscience and the psychological study of cognition, emotion, and personality. Basic, complex, and social emotions are explored from the perspective of, for example, the subjective experience of emotion, non-conscious processes, how emotions are interpreted, expressed, or regulated. Affective systems, neural networks, and their relationship to cognitive processes such as attention, learning, memory, and decision making are addressed. Where relevant, human brain imaging findings, pathological conditions, treatment and cultural perspectives are considered. Learning Objectives By the end of this course, students should be able to: - Discuss the main theoretical perspectives in affective neuroscience - Contrast the physiological and neurological correlates underlying different emotions - Critically analyze the impact of emotions on cognitive processes, including - but not only - higher order functions - Integrate the different levels of emotion processing (cognitive, psychological and neurological) and their interplay within multimodal models - Compare and discuss the alterations of affect and its regulation in terms of cognitive and neural processes from typical and pathological perspective - Reflect upon the developmental milestones of emotions and their regulation in terms of behavior and neurological process - Present, discuss and criticize scientific papers - Critically evaluate research methods used in the affective neuroscience field

2 The following topics will be covered during the course: Theme 1: Foundations: Neurobiology of emotion Neuroanatomy and brain organization Hormonal systems Autonomic nervous system Theme 2: Foundations: Neuropsychological theory Overview of cognitive functions Cognitive and psychological theories of emotion Interplay of cognition emotion and behavior Psychological theories of emotion and the role of neuroscience Theme 3: Affective neuroscience research methods Neuroimaging Physiological measures Psychological measures Theme 4: Emotions: from basics to complex Excitement, pleasure, desire Happiness Anger, disgust and fear Social emotions: moral, social and empathy Theme 5: External antecedents of emotions: selected topics Emotion and the touch Emotion and olfaction Emotion and music Emotion and language Theme 6: Emotion and cognition Emotion and attention: bias and top down effects Emotion and memory Emotion and reward Emotion regulation and executive functioning Emotion and consciousness Theme 7: Variability in emotion Sex differences Aging Cultural differences in emotion Affective disorders Faculty Élodie Cauvet obtained her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience, from Pierre & Marie Curie University in Paris (France). Her research interest started with language acquisition in infants leading to the study of the cerebral processing of language and music in adults. She became interested in neurodevelopmental disorders starting with developmental dyslexia then expending into autism spectrum disorders as well as ADHD. She is using techniques from psychology as well as neuroimaging in her research, this includes MRI (anatomical and functional) as well

3 as EEG and eye tracking. She has been conducting her latest research at Karolinska Institutet Center for Neurodevelopmental Disorders (KIND). Her interests include social cognitive skills, empathy and emotion processing within the whole spectrum of functioning from typicality to disorders such as ASD. With DIS since Reading (Examples): Books: (selected chapters) Armony, J. & P. Vuilleumier (Eds.), (2013) The Cambridge Handbook of Human Affective Neuroscience; Cambridge University Press, New York, NY. Kandel (2013): Principles of Neural Science, 5 th edition, chapter 48, Emotions and Feelings and chapter 63, Disorders of Mood and Anxiety Power, M. & Tim Dalgleis, T. (2008). Cognition and Emotion: From Order to Disorder. Psychology Press: New York Articles (Selected): Kohn N., Eickhoff S.B., Scheller M., Laird A.R., Fox P.T. & Habel U., (2014) Neural network of cognitive emotion regulation An ALE meta-analysis and MACM analysis, NeuroImage, Volume 87, 2, Kringelbach, M. L., & Berridge, K. C. (2017). The Affective Core of Emotion: Linking Pleasure, Subjective Well-Being, and Optimal Metastability in the Brain. Emotion Review, 9(3), Scollon, C. N., Koh, S., & Au, E. W. (2011). Cultural differences in the subjective experience of emotion: When and why they occur. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 5(11), Emotion regulation development Feldman, R. (2015). Mutual influences between child emotion regulation and parent child reciprocity support development across the first 10 years of life: Implications for developmental psychopathology. Development and Psychopathology, 27(4pt1), doi: /s Peter Zimmermann, Alexandra Iwanski, Emotion regulation from early adolescence to emerging adulthood and middle adulthood: Age differences, gender differences, and emotion-specific developmental variations, International Journal of Behavioral Development, Vol 38, Issue 2, pp , First Published January 23, Seasonal depression Mårtensson, Björn, et al. "Bright white light therapy in depression: a critical review of the evidence." Journal of affective disorders 182 (2015): 1-7.

4 Uzoma, H. N., Reeves, G. M., Langenberg, P., Khabazghazvini, B., Balis, T. G., Johnson, M. A., Postolache, T. T. (2015). Light treatment for seasonal Winter depression in African-American vs Caucasian outpatients. World Journal of Psychiatry, 5(1), Field Studies (examples) In Stockholm Clinics: Emotion regulation in children Clinics - Habilitering: Treating anxiety with Mindfulness Research: Emotion lab (KI or Stockholm University) Research: Johan Lundsröm s group at KI: emotion processing in relation to olfaction (aversive olfactory learning) Study Tours Core Course Week and Short Study Tour: Göteborg Long Study Tour: Paris Guest Lecturers (examples) E.g., Experts in the field will be invited to discuss Swedish/European perspectives pertaining to research and practice in the field /Lab/: Refer to the co-requisite syllabus for all details Evaluation Grading Assignment Percent Attendance & Participation 10% Study Tour Assignment (core course week) 10% Study Tour Assignment (Long Tour) 10% Written assignment midterm 20% Research Paper + oral presentation 25% Final Exam 25% Detailed assignment description /rubric will be available via Canvas/in-class/handouts/

5 Course Summary: Date Details THEME 1: Basics of neurobiology of emotion August 23 rd August 27 th Session 1: Emotion systems: Neuroanatomy and cerebral organization Session 2: Physiological response to emotion: hormonal and autonomic system THEME 2: Basics and introductory theory in cognitive psychology August 30 th Session 3: Overview of cognitive functions and Cognitive and psychological theories of emotion Including an overview of the cognitive functions 3 rd Session 4: Interplay between cognitive emotions and behavior: the role of neuroscience

6 Theme 3: Methods in affective neuroscience research 6 th 9 th - 15 th 17 th Session 5: Introduction to neuroimaging techniques: from structure to function Short Study Tour Destination: Goteborg * Students will be provided with information in the booklet provided to students on Canvas* Session 6: Physiological and psychological measures of emotion Theme 4: Emotions: from basics to complex 20 th Session 7: Positive emotions: excitement, pleasure and desire and their relation to happiness 24 th Session 8: Negative emotions: Anger, disgust, fear and sadness Session 9: Social emotions: moral, social and empathy 27 th

7 Theme 5: External antecedents of emotions: selected topics Session 10: Emotion and the body: from touch to olfaction October 1 st October 4 th Session 11: Emotion and audition: from music to language October 6 th - October 14 th Travel Break Theme 6: Emotion and cognition October 15 th October 18 th October 22 nd October 25 th Session 12: Emotion and attention: bias and top down effects Session 13: Emotion and memory Session 14: Emotion regulation and executive functioning Reward Session 15: Emotion and consciousness

8 Long Study Tour Destination: Paris October 27 th - November 4 th * Students will be provided with information in the booklet provided to students on Canvas* Theme 7: Variability in emotion November 5 th November 8 th November 12 th Session 16: Sex, age and cultural invariants and differences in emotion processing Session 17: Affective disorders Session 18: Wrap up class: preparation to final exam DIS - Study Abroad in Scandinavia -