Psychology Day

Psychology Day will show you BMCC options for the study of Psychology and STEM subjects

The Agenda

1 p.m.: Poster session

2 p.m.: Welcome remarks

2:15 p.m.: Guest speaker and question and answer session

3:15 p.m.: Opportunities beyond BMCC

3:45 p.m.: Closing remarks

Guest Speaker
Elizabeth A. Phelps received her PhD from Princeton University and served on the faculty of Yale University and New York University. She is currently the Pershing Square Professor of Human Neuroscience at Harvard University.

Her laboratory has earned widespread acclaim for its groundbreaking research on how the human brain processes emotion, particularly as it relates to learning and memory. The title of her talk at BMCC is “Emotion and Memory: From Perception to Recall.” Memories for emotional events are often described as so vivid they are hard to forget. But what happens in the brain that gives memories for emotional events their unique qualities? In this talk, Prof. Phelps will walk through stages of memory – from initial perception of the event to memory storage to retrieval – and discuss how emotion impacts each stage of memory. Finally, she will highlight how emotion influence the accuracy and subjective experience of

If you have any questions, please contact Professor Masha Komolova at mkomolova@bmcc.cuny.edu.

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