CV
Current
- Research Scientist, Hume AI (2021 - present)
- Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Berkeley (2021 - present)
- Advisor: Dr. Dacher Keltner
Education
- PhD in Psychology (Minor in Quantitative Methods), New York University, 2021
- Advisor: Dr. Jon Freeman
- MA in Psychology, New York University, 2018
- BA in Philosophy (Minor in Cognitive & Brain Sciences), Tufts University, 2012
Awards & Honors
- Dean’s Travel Grant, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2020
- Graduate Student Travel Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2019
- Graduate Student Travel Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2018
- Summer Program Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2017
- East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2017
- Dean’s Travel Grant, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2016
- Dean’s Supplementary Fellowship Grant, New York University, 2015
- Henry M. MacCracken Fellowship, New York University, 2015 – 2021
- Undergraduate Research Grant, Tufts University, 2011
- Dean’s List, Tufts University, 2009 – 2012
- Tisch Scholar, Tufts University, 2009 – 2011
Past Employment
- 2013 - 2015: Lab Manager, UNC Chapel Hill (Advisor: Dr. Kristen Lindquist)
- 2012 - 2013: Research Assistant, Duke University (Advisor: Roberto Cabeza)
Additional training
“NeuroHackademy” Summer School in Neuroimaging and Data Science, University of Washington at Seattle, August 2018
Summer School in Social Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics, Duke University, June 2018
Multimodal Brain Imaging Workshop, Gateway MRI Center, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, June 2014
Publications
Cowen, A. S., Prasad, G., Tanaka, M., Kamitani, Y., Kirilyuk, V., Somandepalli, K., Jou, B., Schroff, F., Hartwig, A., Brooks, J.A., & Keltner, D. (preprint). How emotion is experienced and expressed in multiple cultures: a large-scale experiment.
Cowen, A.S., Manokara, K., Fang, X., Sauter, D., Brooks, J.A., & Keltner, D. (preprint). Facial movements have over twenty dimensions of perceived meaning that are only partially captured with traditional methods.
Brooks, J.A., Stolier, R.M., & Freeman, J.B. (2021). Computational approaches to the neuroscience of social perception. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 16(8), 827-837.
Barnett, B.O., Brooks, J.A., & Freeman, J.B. (2021). Stereotypes bias face perception via orbitofrontal-fusiform cortical interaction. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 16(3), 302-314.
Freeman, J.B., Stolier, R.M., & Brooks, J.A.(2020). Dynamic interactive theory as a domain-general account of social perception. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 63, 237-287.
Brooks, J.A., Chikazoe, J., Sadato, N., & Freeman, J.B. (2019). The neural representation of facial emotion categories reflects conceptual structure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(32), 15861-15870.
Brooks, J.A. & Freeman, J.B. (2019). Neuroimaging of person perception: a social-visual interface. Neuroscience Letters, 693, 40-43.
Freeman, J.B., Stolier, R.M., Brooks, J.A., & Stillerman, B.S. (2018). The neural representational geometry of social perception. Current Opinion in Psychology, 24, 83-91.
Brooks, J.A., Stolier, R.M., & Freeman, J.B. (2018). Stereotypes bias visual prototypes for sex and emotion categories. Social Cognition, 36(5), 481-493.
Brooks, J.A., & Freeman, J.B. (2018). Conceptual knowledge predicts the representational structure of facial emotion perception. Nature Human Behaviour, 2, 581-591.
Brooks, J.A., & Freeman, J.B. (2018). Psychology and neuroscience of person perception. Invited chapter in J. Wixted (Ed.), The Stevens Handbook of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, 4th edition (pp. 429-464). Wiley.
Brooks, J.A., Shablack, H., Gendron, M., Satpute, A.B., Parrish, M.J., & Lindquist, K.A. (2017). The role of language in the experience and perception of emotion: a neuroimaging meta-analysis. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12(2), 169-183.
Chaired Conference Symposia
- Brooks, J.A., & Freeman, J.B. (2020, February). New approaches to fundamental questions in facial emotion perception. Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA. Speakers: Jared Martin, Rachael Jack, Reginald B. Adams, Jeffrey Brooks.
Talks
Freeman, J.B., Stolier, R.M., Brooks, J.A., & Barnett, B.O. (2021). A domain-general neural mechanism of flexible social perception. Invited talk presented at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society Annual Conference.
Brooks, J.A., Stolier, R.M., & Freeman, J.B. (2020, February). Conceptual knowledge shapes the neural representation of facial emotion categories. Talk presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA.
Brooks, J.A., Barnett, B., & Freeman, J.B. (2020, February). Neural pattern similarity reveals a stereotype-driven intersection between gender and emotion categories. Talk presented at the Emotion pre-conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA.
Brooks, J.A., & Freeman, J.B. (2019, March). Conceptual knowledge predicts the brain’s representational structure of facial emotion categories. Talk presented at the Society for Affective Science Annual Conference, Boston, MA.
Brooks, J.A. (2018, November). Conceptual knowledge predicts the representational structure of facial emotion perception. Talk presented at the New York University Social Psychology Brown Bag, New York, NY.
Brooks, J.A., Chikazoe, J., Sadato, N., & Freeman, J.B. (2018, April). Conceptual knowledge predicts the representational structure of facial emotion perception. Talk presented at the 2018 New York Social and Affective Neuroscience Group meeting, Garden City, NY.
Brooks, J.A., Stolier, R.M., & Freeman, J.B. (2018, March). Using mouse-tracking to advance theory in social perception. Talk presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Brooks, J.A. (2018, January). Conceptual knowledge predicts the representational structure of facial emotion perception. Talk presented at the New York University Social Psychology Brown Bag, New York, NY.
Brooks, J.A. (2017, March). The role of conceptual knowledge in facial emotion perception. Talk presented at the New York University Social Psychology Brown Bag, New York, NY.
Brooks, J.A. (2016, May). Manipulating the intersection of novel social categories. Talk presented at the New York University Social Psychology Brown Bag, New York, NY.
Brooks, J.A. (2009, April). Rethinking the multiple category problem: Parallel social categorization in face processing. Talk presented at Tufts University’s Eleventh Annual Undergraduate Research & Scholarship Symposium, Somerville, MA.
Posters
Brooks, J.A., Stolier, R.M., & Freeman, J.B. (2020). Context shapes the neural representation of facial emotion categories. Poster accepted to be presented at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society Annual Conference, Santa Barbara, CA. [Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic]
Brooks, J.A., Chikazoe, J., Sadato, N., & Freeman, J.B. (2019, May). Conceptual knowledge shapes the neural representation of facial emotion perception. Poster presented at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society Annual Conference, Miami, FL.
Brooks, J.A., Chikazoe, J., Sadato, N., & Freeman, J.B. (2018, May). Conceptual knowledge shapes the neural representation of facial emotion perception. Poster presented at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society Annual Conference, Brooklyn, NY.
Brooks, J.A., & Freeman, J.B. (2018, March). Individual differences in conceptual knowledge shape facial emotion perception. Poster presented at the Emotion pre-conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Atlanta, GA.
Doyle, C.M., Gates, K.M., Lane, S.T., Brooks, J.A., Pendl, S., Wilkins, R., Kraft, R., Gao, W., & Lindquist, K.A. (2018, March). Distinct neural pathways for anxiety: An application of the subgrouping GIMME algorithm. Poster presented at the Emotion pre-conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Atlanta, GA.
Brooks, J.A., & Freeman, J.B. (2017, January). The role of conceptual knowledge in perception of facial emotion. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX.
Brooks, J.A., Stolier, R.M., & Freeman, J.B. (2017, January). Intersecting stereotypes bias visual prototypes for sex and emotion categories. Poster presented at the Emotion pre-conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX.
Shablack, H., Brooks, J.A., Gendron, M., Satpute, A., & Lindquist, K.A. (2016, February). The role of language in the experience and perception of emotion: A neuroimaging meta -analysis. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference, San Diego, CA.
Parrish, M.H., Brooks, J.A., Shablack, H., & Lindquist, K.A. (2015, April). Brain bases of social affective experience: A meta -analysis of human neuroimaging studies. Poster presented at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society Conference, Boston, MA.
Brooks, J.A., Shablack, H., Parrish, M.H., Gendron, M., Satpute, A.B., Hoemann, K., & Lindquist, K.A. (2015, April). The role of emotion words in the experience and perception of emotion: A meta-analysis of the neuroimaging literature. Poster presented at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society Conference, Boston, MA.
Parrish, M.H., Brooks, J.A., Shablack, H., & Lindquist, K.A. (2015, February). Brain bases of social affective experience: A meta-analysis of human neuroimaging studies. Poster presented at the Emotion Pre-conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Long Beach, CA.
Brooks, J.A., Shablack, H., Parrish, M.H., Gendron, M., Satpute, A.B., Hoemann, K., & Lindquist, K.A. (2015, February). The role of emotion words in the experience and perception of emotion: A meta-analysis of the neuroimaging literature. Poster presented at the Emotion Pre-conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Long Beach, CA.
Brooks, J.A., Davis, S.W., Komes, J., & Cabeza, R. (2013, April). Neural correlates of the own-age bias in younger and older adults. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Brooks, J.A., Freeman, J.B., & Ambady, N. (2011, May). When two become one: Temporally dynamic integration of the face and voice. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, Washington, DC.
Brooks, J.A. (2010, April). When two become one: Temporally dynamic integration of the face and voice. Poster presented at Tufts University’s Twelfth Annual Undergraduate Research & Scholarship Symposium.
Teaching experience
- Fall 2020
- Guest lecturer
- Course: Graduate research methods
- New York University
Departmental service
- Co-organizer and member, fMRI Methods Journal Club (NYU), 2016 – 2021
- Member, Diversity & Inclusion Steering Committee (NYU), 2020
- Member, Climate Committee (NYU), 2019 – 2020
- Student Representative, Graduate Admissions Committee (NYU), 2019 – 2020
- Student Representative, Social Psychology PhD Program (NYU), 2018 – 2019
Professional service
- Member, IEEE Standard for Ethical considerations in Emulated Empathy in Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, 2021 - present
- Student Representative, Society for Affective Science Student Committee (New York chapter), 2017 – 2020
Ad-hoc reviewer (journals)
- Brain Topology
- Communications Biology
- Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
- Nature Communications
- NeuroImage
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
- Psychological Reports
- Scientific Reports
- Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
- Social Neuroscience
Ad-hoc reviewer (grants)
- National Science Foundation