Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory

The Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory (IASL) studies emotions what they are, and how they work— using experiential, behavioral, psychophysiological, and brain-imaging techniques. The IASL is located at Northeastern University, with a secondary site at Mass General Hospital.

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  • Lisa Feldman Barrett

    Lisa Feldman Barrett is a university distinguished professor at Northeastern University with appointments at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Her lab is developing a systems-level model of brain and body mechanisms to unify human affect, emotion, motivation, cognition and action. She takes a multidisciplinary approach, incorporating methods and concepts from a range of disciplines, including […]

  • Karen Quigley

    Karen Quigley’s work focuses on how bodily regulation and sensory signals from the body help a brain to create feelings, including the role of individual- and situation-level variation in affective experience, and how these experiences relate to behavior, cognition, and health. She uses laboratory and ambulatory (daily life) measures to understand what factors explain the […]