Brian Knutson is a professor of
psychology and
neuroscience at
Stanford University
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and director of the
Symbiotic Project on Affective Neuroscience. His research focuses on the neural basis of
emotion, and has been covered in multiple news sources.
Education
He earned a dual
bachelor's degree in
psychology and
comparative religion from
Trinity University in 1989 and a
Ph.D. in
psychology from
Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
in 1993.
Publications
He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles which have received over 20,000 citation
His most cited work, "Anticipation of Increasing Monetary Reward Selectively Recruits Nucleus Accumbens", was published in ''
Journal of Neuroscience
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'' in 200
References
External links
Personal websiteSymbiotic Project on Affective Neuroscience websiteDocumentary film clip(4 min)
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Living people
American neuroscientists
Stanford University Department of Psychology faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)