People

	Ralph Adolphs, Ph.D. Contact At Caltech: Room 331b HSS 228-77 Caltech, Pasadena 91125 (626)-395-4486 (office) radolphs@hss.caltech.edu At Iowa: Univ. of Iowa Dept. of Neurology 200 Hawkins Dr. 2007 RCP Iowa City, IA 52242 (319) 384-6050 (office) (319) 356-4505 (fax) ralph-adolphs@uiowa.edu Biosketch Research Interests Dr. Adolphs received his Bachelor's degree from Stanford University, and his Ph.D. in neurobiology from Caltech. He did post-doctoral work with Antonio Damasio at the University of Iowa, beginning his studies in human neuropsychology, with a focus on the recognition of emotional facial expressions. Since 2004 he holds an appointment as Professor at Caltech, as well as an adjunct appointment in the Department of Neurology at the University of Iowa.

	Fulvia Castelli, Ph.D. Research Interests Dr. Castelli worked with Professor Uta Frith in England investigating social cognition in people with autism. In Dr. Adolphs' lab, she is leading the recruitment and studies of people with autism and Asperger syndrome, with a special interest on investigating the connectivity of their brains.

	Lynn K. Paul, Ph.D. Contact At Caltech: Caltech MC 228-77 Pasadena, CA 91125 (626) 395-4077 At Fuller Graduate School: Fuller Graduate School of Psychology 180 N. Oakland Ave. Pasadena, CA 91101 (626) 584-5533 lkpaul "at" hss.caltech.edu Research Interests Dr. Paul has been a Visiting Associate at Caltech since 2004. Her primary research focus is the role of the corpus callosum in emotions and social cognition. Dr. Paul is heading the Caltech Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum (AgCC) Project and an inter-institutional research consortium on AgCC. The purpose of the Caltech AgCC Project is to characterize the neuroanatomy, effective connectivity, cortical organization, emotional responsiveness and social cognition in adults with Primary AgCC. These studies will in turn provide insight into the role of the corpus callosum in social-cognitive and emotional processing in people with various other diagnoses, including autism and schizophrenia. This AgCC Research Consortium involves collaboration of researchers from California Institute of Technology, Fuller Graduate School of Psychology/Travis Research Institute, University of California in San Francisco, and University of Southern California. Dr. Paul is also the founding president of the National Organization of Disorders of the Corpus Callosum (NODCC), a non-profit corporation that gathers and disseminates information on these conditions to individuals with corpus callosum disorders, their families and professionals. Recent Publications on the Corpus Callosum Brown, W.S., Paul, L.K. and Marion, S.D. Developmental neuropsychology of the cerebral commissures. Requested chapter for D. Molfese, Ed., Handbook of Developmental Neuropsychology. Paul, L.K., Schieffer, B., and Brown, W.S. (2004). Social processing deficits in primary agenesis of the corpus callosum: Narratives from the Thematic Apperception Test. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology,19, 215-225. Paul, L. K., Van Lancker-Sidtis, D., Schieffer, B., Dietrich, R., & Brown, W. S. (2003). Communicative deficits in individuals with agenesis of the corpus callosum: Nonliteral language and affective prosody. Brain & Language, 85, 313-324. Hines, R. J., Paul, L. K., & Brown, W. S. (2002). Spatial attention in agenesis of the corpus callosum: Shifting attention between visual fields. Neuropsychologia. 40, 1804-1814. Brown, W. S., Thrasher, E. D. & Paul, L. K. (2001). Interhemispheric Stroop effect in partial and complete agenesis of the corpus callosum. Journal of International Neuropsychological Society, 7, 302-311. Brown, W. S. & Paul, L. K. (2000). Cognitive and psychosocial deficits in agenesis of the corpus callosum with normal intelligence. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 5, 135-157. Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum Project

	Po-Yin Samuel Huang Contact Address: MSC 260 Pasadena, CA 9112 Room: Broad 63 (summer) huangsamuel[at]hotmail.com Research Interests I am a undergraduate junior participating in the SURF program. The project that I'm currently working on is "Face-to-face Eye-tracking in Naturalistic Dyadic Social Interactions." I am working under the mentorship of Dr. Michael Spezio and supervision of Dr. Ralph Adolphs.

	Jan Glaescher, Ph.D. Contact email:glascher "at" hss.caltech.edu Phone:(626) 395-4976 Research Interests Dr. Glaescher did his graduate work with Christian Buechel on emotional processing of facial expressions and temporal integration of predictive stimuli using fMRI. At Caltech, he is working jointly with Dr. Adolphs and Dr. O'Doherty on projects involving large-scale brain mapping and the application of learning theories to reward-based spatial learning in the context of virtual 3D mazes.

	Michael Spezio, Ph.D. Contact Caltech, Pasadena 91125 (626)-395-4899 (office) mlspezio (at) hss.caltech.edu Research Interests Dr. Spezio is interested in how social cognition, and social neuroscience, can elucidate our judgments of and behavior towards other people. Current studies include face-to-face eyetracking experiments, fMRI studies of affective touch and political judgments, as well as detailed analyses of how people with autism process faces.