Speaker Profile

Luiz Pessoa, PhD

Professor of Psychology; Principal Investigator, Laboratory of Cognition and Emotions; Member of the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program; Director, Neuroimaging Center, University of Maryland, College Park, who studies the interactions between emotion, motivation, and cognition in the brain; Author, The Entangled Brain: How Perception, Cognition, and Emotions Are Woven Together (2022), “Refocusing Neuroscience: Moving Away from Mental Categories and Towards Complex Behaviors” (2022, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society), and The Cognitive-Emotional Brain: From Interactions to Integration (2013)
LuizPessoa, PhD

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Teaching Whole Learners
Applying Science to Create Social, Engaged, Thriving, Curious, Critical Thinkers
Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA
November 14-16, 2025

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