DeRosa

Last fall, the department of Human Development welcomed two more neuroscience researchers, husband and wife Adam Anderson and Eve DeRosa, from the University of Toronto. Eve De Rosa is associate professor in the department of human development and Rebecca Q. and James C. Morgan Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow. DeRosa’s research focuses on the neurochemistry of cognitive processes such as learning, attention, and memory. She takes a comparative cognitive neuroscience approach, employing neuroimaging and behavioral measures in humans and additional measures in rodents, to gain deeper insights into how human behavior and the underlying neurochemistry changes with age.

Anderson

Adam Anderson is associate professor in the department of human development. His research explores the psychological and neural underpinnings of emotions—what they are, how they are generated in the brain, and how we regulate them. Although much of psychology focuses on understanding and treating disorders, Anderson is interested in human flourishing and the nature of happiness—what it is and its function and adaptive value. His research considers all emotions as evolutionarily selected biological adaptations, having their own rationality intended to help us navigate the physical and social environment.