Kateri McRae
I still hope to update this webpage "soon"
I am currently a post-doc investigating the neural basis of emotion and emotion-cognition interactions. I am inspired by researchers who have cleverly used cognitive neuroscience methods to answer fundamental questions about the way emotion and cognition are organized in the brain, and the implications that organization imposes upon behavior.
I completed a Ph.D. in cognition & neural systems at the University of Arizona. My graduate mentor there was Al Kaszniak, and I still collaborate liberally with Richard Lane. My projects there involve the neural underpinnings of conscious emotional experience, the biological preparedness of some emotional stimuli, gender differences in emotional processing, and some functional connectivity analyses of brain imaging data.
I am now a post-doc in the personality area at Stanford University. My first experience with this group was as an undergraduate, when I completed an honors thesis in the Human Biology department. The honors project was a small part of a large collaboration between Kevin Ochsner (now at Columbia University) John Gabrieli (now at MIT) and James Gross. That work, and my current projects with Stanford, revolve around the capacity for individuals to control (regulate) their emotional experience by various means.
In addition to a passion for the science of emotion, I make a hobby of emotion by seeing and performing in theater (especially musicals). I also mix work and play at the Burning Man festival, where I collect personality data for my own research while collecting demographic information for the BM Organization.
This day and age a number of email addresses will get to me... the easiest to remember is
kateri [at] stanford [dot] edu