Matthew Lieberman, Ph.D.

Faculty Member

Professor
Department of Psychology
University of California, Los Angeles

Personal Statement

My research applies a social cognitive neuroscience approach to examine questions of social and self-understanding, of social pains and pleasures, the social propagation of persuasive information, and of self-control and emotion regulation.  Our work uses a variety of approaches including functional magnetic imaging (fMRI), functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) that allows for up to 6 people to be scanned simultaneously while interacting, and electrocorticography (ECoG).   This work has been funded by NIMH, NIA, NSF, DARPA, DOD, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.  Based on the fact that my lab has published a significant portion of the fMRI work done on implicit emotion regulation, I believe I am well-qualified to serve as a co-I for this proposal.