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