. >> lisa feldman barrett shirt and installation of her book "how emotions are made: the secret life of the brain." she is a university distinguished profesof

. >> lisa feldman barrett shirt and installation of her book "how emotions are made: the secret life of the brain." she is a university distinguished professor of psychology at northeastern university with appointments at harvard medical school in massachusetts and general hospital in psychiatry and radiology. she received a national institutes of health directors pioneer award for her groundbreaking research on emotion in the brain. she is an elected member of the royal society of canada. here's a sampling of the phrase for her and her book. in a review, library journal says, she presents a new neuroscientific explanation of why people are more swayed by feelings than fax. she offers an intuitive theory echoes against out on the popular understanding but also that of traditional research. emotions don't arise, rather, we construct them on the fly. furthermore, emotions are neither universal nor located in specific brain regions. they vary by culture and result from dynamic neuronal networks. "scientific american" calls the book remarkable for its freshness of its ideas and the "wall