James K Rilling::Laboratory for Darwinian Neuroscience:: People: Jennifer Mascaro

I entered Emory Anthropology's doctoral program and started working in Dr. Rilling's lab in 2005-2006. I graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a BA in Anthropology and Pre-Medical studies. My interests center on the study of emotion and social cognition, and I hope to use a variety of neuroimaging techniques to shed light on both evolutionary questions regarding the origins of human social cognition and on questions of human variation and plasticity. I am currently using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to explore cerebro-cerebellar connectivity. In the future, I plan to use DTI and fMRI to study aspects of emotion and social cognition.