Florin Dolcos

Florin Dolcos is a Professor in the Psychology Department and the Neuroscience Program at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, affiliated with the Beckman Institute. He directs the Social, Cognitive, Personality, and Emotional (SCoPE) Neuroscience Laboratory, focusing on the interplay between emotion and cognition.

• University: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Departments: Psychology, Neuroscience Program
• Institute: Beckman Institute
• Lab: SCoPE Neuroscience Laboratory

Research Interests:
Florin Dolcos's work bridges Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, and Affective Science, with a focus on:

• Emotion-cognition interactions
• Memory and stress effects
• Neuroimaging techniques
• Moral psychology and decision-making
• Relational and source memory
• Emotion regulation and mental health

Recent Publications Trends:
His recent studies investigate how emotion divergently impacts cognition, stress effects on memory retrieval, moral judgment modeling, and trimodal brain imaging methods. These works often employ behavioral experiments, eye-tracking, and multimodal neuroimaging approaches.

Labs & Teams:
Dolcos leads the SCoPE Neuroscience Laboratory, fostering interdisciplinary research in cognitive and affective neuroscience across the University of Illinois system.