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SUMMARY:Why it’s inconceivable that Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde are one and th
 e same: How emotion influences similarity perception - Dr Deborah Talmi\, 
 University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20220120T123000Z
DTEND:20220120T133000Z
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DESCRIPTION:*Abstract*\nSimilarity between experiences is key to meaning-m
 aking processes\, such as categorisation\, generalisation\, and inference\
 ; it also influences how we encode and remember. Emotional similarity refe
 rs to the tendency to group stimuli together because they evoke the same f
 eelings. Events that look different and have different semantic meanings c
 an nevertheless evoke the same feelings. We may judge an image of a homele
 ss person and an image of a person injured in a car accident as different\
 , because they have different meanings\, or as similar\, because both evok
 e negative feelings. In this talk I will discuss the effect of emotion on 
 similarity perception\, as measured in behaviour and in the brain through 
 representational neural similarity. \n\n*Biography*\nDr Deborah Talmi is a
  cognitive neuroscientist\, interested in emotional cognition - the effect
  that emotional value has on our cognitive system. The core of her researc
 h is the emotional value of the events that we experience. To induce emoti
 onal value in the lab she uses monetary reward\, pain and taste stimuli\, 
 and pictures that depict distressing scenes. Her aim is to understand how 
 our brains convert such input to neural representation of value and subjec
 tive feelings. Her main focus is on how the emotional value of experience 
 influences later memory for these experiences. For more detail on Dr Talmi
 \, please visit: https://www.lucy.cam.ac.uk/fellows/dr-deborah-talmi\n
LOCATION: Webinar  (via Zoom online)
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