User:Karobotham/Eliza Bliss-Moreau

= Eliza Bliss-Moreau = Eliza Bliss-Moreau is a Core Scientist in the Neuroscience and Behaviour Unit at the California National Primate Research Center and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. Her work is focused on the biology of emotions in humans and animals, and since the Zika virus epidemic she has been studying the effects of the virus on the developing brain.

Professional History
Bliss-Moreau attended Boston College, where she received her Bachelor of Science in Biology and Psychology with Honors in 2002, and her Ph.D. in Psychology in 2008. This is also where she met Lisa Feldman Barrett and worked under her, eventually running the Barrett Lab during her senior undergraduate year. After this, she moved to the University of California, Davis and worked with David Amaral, training as a neurosurgeon while working in his lab. She now runs her own lab, the Bliss-Moreau Lab which "conducts comparative and translational affective science using multimethod, multispecies approaches to understand the social and affective lives of humans and nonhuman animals."

Awards and Honours
American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Awards for Early Career Contribution to Psychology (in animal learning and behaviour, comparative), 2018.

Murray B. Gardner Junior Faculty Research Fellowship in Infectious Disease, 2017 -2018.

Kavli Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, 2016.

Visiting Research Fellowship, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2014.

“Rising Star” Award, Association for Psychological Science2013Excellence in Postdoctoral Research Award, University of California Davis, 2013.

Commitment to Community Award, Boston College Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, 2008.

Research Fellowship ($2000), Boston College Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2007.

Boston College Graduate Student Award for Service and Leadership, 2006.

Graduate Student Poster Award Winner at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2005.

National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates Grant Recipient, 1999 -2002.

Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Boston College,1999 -2001.

Academic Senate Research Travel Grant, University of California Davis, 2017.

Postdoctoral Scholars Association Travel Award, University of California Davis, 2009.

Neural Systems of Social Behaviour, Travel Award, 2007.

Graduate and Postgraduate Student Travel Award, International Society for Research on Emotion, 2006.

Graduate Student Travel Grant, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2003.

Selected Publications
Bliss-Moreau, E.,Moadab, G.*, & Machado, C.J. (2017). Monkeys preferentially process body information while viewing affective displays.Emotion, 17(5), 765-771

Bliss-Moreau, E. (2017). The construction of nonhuman animal emotion. Current Opinion in Psychology, 17, 184-188.

Grayson, D.S., Bliss-Moreau, E., Machado, C.J., Bennett, J. Shen, K., & Amaral, D.G. (2016). The rhesus monkey connectome predicts disrupted functional networks resulting from pharmacogenetics inactivation of the amygdala. In press, Neuron.

Touroutoglou, A., Bliss-Moreau, E., Zhang, J., Martini, D., Vanduffel, W., Dickerson, B., & Barrett, L.F. (2016). A ventral salience network in the macaque brain. NeuroImage, 132, 190-197.

Bliss-Moreau, E.& Moadab, G.* (2016). Variation in reactivity predicts cooperative restraint training efficiency. Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, 55(1), 41-49.

Bliss-Moreau, E. & Williams, L.A. (2014). Tag you’re it: Affect tagging promotes goal formation and selection. Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 37, 138-139.

Bliss-Moreau, E., Theil, J.H.*, & Moadab, G.* (2013). Efficient cooperative restraint training with Rhesus macaques. Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, 16(2), 98-117.Moreau, E., Toscano, J.E., Bauman, M.D., Mason, W.A., & Amaral, D.G. (2011). Neonatal amygdala lesions alter responsiveness to objects in juvenile rhesus macaques. Neuroscience, 178, 123-32. E., Siegel, E., Bliss-Moreau, E., & Barrett, L.F. (2011). The visual impact of gossip. Science, 332(6036), 1446-1448.

Bliss-Moreau, E.,Owren, M., & Barrett, L.F. (2010). I like the sound of your voice: Affective learning about vocal signals. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46(3), 557-563.

Barrett, L.F. & Bliss-Moreau, E.(2009). Affect as a psychological primitive. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 167-218.

Bliss-Moreau, E.& Barrett, L.F. (2009). What’s reason got to do with it? Affect as the foundation of learning. Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 32(2), 201-202.