Here's a quote from Liz Phelps' lab webpage, at:
http://www.psych.nyu.edu/phelpslab/index.html

The Phelps lab investigates human learning and memory and its relation
to emotion. We use a cognitive neuroscience approach in which we
attempt to discover the neural systems involved in these behaviors.
Most of our studies use a combination of techniques including behavioral
assessments, psychophysiological responses, brain activation assessed
with functional magnetic resonance imaging, and the investigation of
patients with brain lesions. By combining these techniques we hope to
achieve a more complete understanding of the complex interactions
between learning, emotion and the human brain. Our research has
investigated a wide range of behaviors related to emotional learning
including implicit and explicit memory, attention, and social responses.

Here are some sample pubs:

Anderson AK, Phelps EA.
Lesions of the human amygdala impair enhanced perception of
emotionally salient events.
Nature. 2001 May 17;411(6835):305-9.

Phelps EA, O'Connor KJ, Gatenby JC, Gore JC, Grillon C, Davis M.
Activation of the left amygdala to a cognitive representation of fear.
Nat Neurosci. 2001 Apr;4(4):437-41.

Raj
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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:32:50 -0400
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Subject: BCS Colloquium Friday, April 26 at 4:00 PM

Friday, April 26
4:00 PM
MIT, Building E25, Rm 401

Liz Phelps, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology, New York University
"The Human Amygdala and Episodic Memory"


FUTURE EVENTS
(All events begin at 4:00 in room E25-401 unless otherwise noted. The teas
are either in NE20 4th floor or E25 117. The tea location is announced at
the talk.)

Friday, May 3
David Linden, Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
"Cellular Substrates of Motor Learning in the Cerebellum"
Friday, May 10
Alvaro Pascual-Leone, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor in Neurology,
Harvard Medical School & Director, Laboratory for Magnetic Brain
Stimulation, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
"The Metamodal Organization of the Brain"


Friday, May 17Martin Smith, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. of Anatomy &
Neurobiology, University of California at Irvine
"What's the Fos about agrin in the CNS"
Friday, May 24
A. J. Hudspeth, Ph.D. Prof. & Head, Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
"How the Ear's Works Work: Mechanoelectrical Transduction and Amplification
by Hair Cells"