Mary Helen Immordino-Yang

Expert in the neuroscience of learning, creativity, culture, morality and social interaction

Professor of Education, Psychology & Neuroscience

USC Rossier School of Education

Director, Center for Affective Neuroscience, Development, Learning and Education

Expertise

  • student testing
  • social interaction
  • compassion
  • culture in learning
  • cognitive neuroscience
  • morals, moral judgment, moral decision-making
  • social and brain
  • the brain basis of consciousness and “self”
  • fMRI, brain damage, brain lesions, stroke
  • student anxiety
  • student attention
  • childhood development
  • teaching students
  • social behavior
  • violence
  • admiration
  • virtue
  • emotion
  • feelings
  • ethnicity
  • global education
  • brain-body interaction
  • China and U.S. learning differences

Fahmy and Donna Attallah Chair in Humanistic Psychology

Director, USC Center for Affective Neuroscience, Development, Learning and Education (candle.usc.edu)

Professor of Education, Psychology & Neuroscience,

Brain & Creativity Institute; Rossier School of Education,

University of Southern California

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Languages

  • French

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