Mary Helen Immordino-Yang

  • Professor of Education, Psychology & Neuroscience
  • USC Rossier School of Education
  • Director, Center for Affective Neuroscience, Development, Learning and Education
Office: (213) 821-2969

Expertise Summary

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

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

Languages

  • French