Ralph Adolphs
Ralph Adolphs is a Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Biology at Caltech. His research investigates the neuroscience of human emotions, social inference, and brain-behavior relationships. His published work covers the structure of emotional experiences, amygdala function and connectivity in autism, and multimodal neuroimaging techniques such as fMRI and intracranial EEG.
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- "Dense Amygdala": Extensive Complex-valued Functional MRI of the Ventral and Medial Temporal Lobe during Passive Movie Watching in Three Individuals.
- Neural dynamics underlying minute-timescale persistent behaviour in the human brain.
- How trait impressions of faces shape subsequent mental state inferences.
- Depth-electrode stimulation and concurrent functional MRI in humans: Factors influencing heating with body coil transmission.
- Variability and stability of autistic traits in the general population: A systematic comparison between online and in-lab samples.
- Unsupervised mapping of causal relations between brain lesions and behavior.
- Investigating the Structure of Emotion: Tools, Pitfalls and Recommendations.
- Multimodal single-neuron, intracranial EEG, and fMRI brain responses during movie watching in human patients.
- Opinion: Which animals have personality?
- Commentary on, "The Human Affectome," by Schiller et al.
- Smartphone-based gaze estimation for in-home autism research.
- Neural dynamics underlying minute-timescale persistent behavior in the human brain.
- A shared structure for emotion experiences from narratives, videos, and everyday life.
- Resting-State Functional Connectivity of the Amygdala in Autism: A Preregistered Large-Scale Study.
- Domain-specific representation of social inference by neurons in the human amygdala and hippocampus.
- Dissociable brain structural asymmetry patterns reveal unique phenome-wide profiles.
- Trait impressions from faces depend on the goals of the perceiver.
- Collective events and individual affect shape autobiographical memory.
- Neural signatures of social inferences predict the number of real-life social contacts and autism severity.
- The Future of Affective Science: Introduction to the Special Issue.
- Ethical commitments, principles, and practices guiding intracranial neuroscientific research in humans.
- Video-evoked fMRI BOLD responses are highly consistent across different data acquisition sites.
- Caltech Conte Center, a multimodal data resource for exploring social cognition and decision-making.
- The geometry of domain-general performance monitoring in the human medial frontal cortex.
- Mapping effective connectivity of human amygdala subdivisions with intracranial stimulation.
- Atypical gaze patterns in autistic adults are heterogeneous across but reliable within individuals.
- Author Correction: Mapping effective connectivity of human amygdala subdivisions with intracranial stimulation.
- Common fronto-temporal effective connectivity in humans and monkeys.
- The rise of affectivism.
- Reorganization of the Social Brain in Individuals with Only One Intact Cerebral Hemisphere.
- Four dimensions characterize attributions from faces using a representative set of English trait words.
- A Cautionary Note on Predicting Social Judgments from Faces with Deep Neural Networks.
- Causal mapping of emotion networks in the human brain: Framework and initial findings.
- No strong evidence that social network index is associated with gray matter volume from a data-driven investigation.
- Flexible recruitment of memory-based choice representations by the human medial frontal cortex.
- Estimating the heritability of psychological measures in the Human Connectome Project dataset.
- Integration Between Cerebral Hemispheres Contributes to Defense Mechanisms.
- Multivariate Lesion-Behavior Mapping of General Cognitive Ability and Its Psychometric Constituents.
- Personality beyond taxonomy.
- The neuroscience of understanding the emotions of others.
- Single-Neuron Correlates of Error Monitoring and Post-Error Adjustments in Human Medial Frontal Cortex.
- Anthropomorphizing without Social Cues Requires the Basolateral Amygdala.
- Model-based lesion mapping of cognitive control using the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test.
- Deconstructing Theory-of-Mind Impairment in High-Functioning Adults with Autism.
- Emotional Expressions Reconsidered: Challenges to Inferring Emotion From Human Facial Movements.
- Viewpoints: Approaches to defining and investigating fear.
- Abstract goal representation in visual search by neurons in the human pre-supplementary motor area.
- What is an emotion?
- Intrinsic Functional Connectivity of the Brain in Adults with a Single Cerebral Hemisphere.
- Neural phase locking predicts BOLD response in human auditory cortex.
- Searching for the neural causes of criminal behavior.
- The social neuroscience of mentalizing: challenges and recommendations.
- Interoception and Mental Health: A Roadmap.
- Encoding of Target Detection during Visual Search by Single Neurons in the Human Brain.
- A distributed brain network predicts general intelligence from resting-state human neuroimaging data.
- Inferring Whether Officials Are Corruptible From Looking at Their Faces.
- Resting-state functional brain connectivity best predicts the personality dimension of openness to experience.
- Investigating Emotions as Functional States Distinct From Feelings.
- Neural predictors of evaluative attitudes toward celebrities.
- How should neuroscience study emotions? by distinguishing emotion states, concepts, and experiences.
- Reply to Barrett: affective neuroscience needs objective criteria for emotions.
- The neural basis of understanding the expression of the emotions in man and animals.
- Mapping effective connectivity in the human brain with concurrent intracranial electrical stimulation and BOLD-fMRI.
- Fixations Gate Species-Specific Responses to Free Viewing of Faces in the Human and Macaque Amygdala.
- Emotion Perception from Face, Voice, and Touch: Comparisons and Convergence.
- Reduced specificity in emotion judgment in people with autism spectrum disorder.
- The human amygdala parametrically encodes the intensity of specific facial emotions and their categorical ambiguity.
- Selective impairment of goal-directed decision-making following lesions to the human ventromedial prefrontal cortex.
- Decision ambiguity is mediated by a late positive potential originating from cingulate cortex.
- A new look at domain specificity: insights from social neuroscience.
- Cultural effects on the association between election outcomes and face-based trait inferences.
- Intracranial markers of conscious face perception in humans.
- From faces to prosocial behavior: cues, tools, and mechanisms.
- Conscious Perception as Integrated Information Patterns in Human Electrocorticography.
- The neural basis of conceptualizing the same action at different levels of abstraction.
- How the brain represents other minds.
- Panic Anxiety in Humans with Bilateral Amygdala Lesions: Pharmacological Induction via Cardiorespiratory Interoceptive Pathways.
- Data-driven approaches in the investigation of social perception.
- What does the interactive brain hypothesis mean for social neuroscience? A dialogue.
- Building a Science of Individual Differences from fMRI.
- Human Lesion Studies in the 21st Century.
- Revealing the world of autism through the lens of a camera.
- Preferential attention to animals and people is independent of the amygdala.
- Deconstructing and reconstructing theory of mind.
- Investigating attention in complex visual search.
- A specific hypoactivation of right temporo-parietal junction/posterior superior temporal sulcus in response to socially awkward situations in autism.
- The unsolved problems of neuroscience.
- A causal role for posterior medial frontal cortex in choice-induced preference change.
- Amygdala lesions do not compromise the cortical network for false-belief reasoning.
- The primate amygdala in social perception - insights from electrophysiological recordings and stimulation.
- Idiosyncratic brain activation patterns are associated with poor social comprehension in autism.
- Folk explanations of behavior: a specialized use of a domain-general mechanism.
- Eyetracking of social preference choices reveals normal but faster processing in autism.
- Brain Connectivity in Autism: The Significance of Null Findings.
- Neuropsychology: how many emotions are there?
- Exploring the Structure of Human Defensive Responses from Judgments of Threat Scenarios.
- An Enhanced Default Approach Bias Following Amygdala Lesions in Humans.
- Implicit Social Biases in People With Autism.
- Neurons in the human amygdala encode face identity, but not gaze direction.
- Atypical Visual Saliency in Autism Spectrum Disorder Quantified through Model-Based Eye Tracking.
- Largely typical patterns of resting-state functional connectivity in high-functioning adults with autism.
- A framework for studying emotions across species.
- Agenesis of the corpus callosum and autism: a comprehensive comparison.
- Social attention and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex.
- Social equality in the number of choice options is represented in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex.
- Validating the Why/How contrast for functional MRI studies of Theory of Mind.
- Neurons in the human amygdala selective for perceived emotion.
- Violations of personal space by individuals with autism spectrum disorder.
- Autism spectrum disorder, but not amygdala lesions, impairs social attention in visual search.
- Facial emotion recognition in agenesis of the corpus callosum.
- The biology of fear.
- Social manipulation of preference in the human brain.
- Social and emotional neuroscience.
- Toward a neural basis for social behavior.
- Single-neuron correlates of atypical face processing in autism.
- The behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying the tracking of expertise.
- Perception of emotions from facial expressions in high-functioning adults with autism.
- Perspective distortion from interpersonal distance is an implicit visual cue for social judgments of faces.
- The social brain in psychiatric and neurological disorders.
- Impaired learning of social compared to monetary rewards in autism.