Carolyn studies how the human brain tracks and encodes information about its social environment and how this information shapes our thoughts and behavior. She received her B.Sc. from McGill University and her Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience from Dartmouth College before becoming an Assistant Professor at UCLA in 2016, where she is the Bernice Wenzel and Wendell Jeffrey Term Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience and directs the Computational Social Neuroscience Lab.

This profile was last updated on April 18, 2022

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2024

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Carolyn Parkinson—Creating a Shared Social World

Mind and Life Institute • September 16, 2024

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection | Self & Other

2022