New research from the University of Sussex has revealed the biological limits to human compassion and empathy. The study ...

Faul, L. & Kensinger , E.A. (accepted). Emotional memory. Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference, 3rd Edition. Elsevier. Garcia, S.M. & Kensinger, E.A ...

Why does a comforting touch stay with us for years, while other sensations quickly fade from our minds? A new paper offers a novel answer, proposing the first comprehensive neurobiological model of ...

The CANLab was founded in 2006 when Dr. Kensinger arrived at Boston College, becoming one of the first laboratories at BC to use cognitive neuroscience methods to understand human behavior. Since then ...

Neuroscience is a vast field of study containing a range of narrower subfields. Each involves a spotlight on the brain and other parts of the nervous system, connecting them to one or more zones of ...

The keywords assigned to papers by authors in the field of affective computing were analyzed for frequency and co-occurrence, and the core keywords among them were clustered to get five clusters.