Derek M. Isaacowitz

Derek M. Isaacowitz Associate Professor 125 Nightingale 617-373-3846 (office) 617-373-8714 (fax) dmi@neu.edu

Curriculum vitae (pdf)
Laboratory website

Research

My lab investigates the links between attention and emotion throughout the adult lifespan. We are interested in how individuals of different ages, from the teens to the 90s, manage their own emotions and recognize emotions in others, and we try to understand the role of visual attention in producing age differences both in the regulation and recognition of emotions.

We use a multi-method approach in our research on emotional development across the lifespan. We use eye tracking to measure gaze patterns towards emotional stimuli, as well as continuous mood measurement and various channels of psychophysiology to assess affective responses to those stimuli. We also employ various behavioral paradigms to assess emotion recognition accuracy and attentional abilities.