Stony Brook University, New York, USA
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Turhan Canli |
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Dr. Canli is of German-Turkish descent and grew up in Germany. After the Abitur, he continued his education at Tufts University in the United States, where he graduated with a degree in Psychology in 1988 [B.A., summa cum laude, summo cum honore in thesi, Psychology]. He continued graduate studies at Yale University, where he focused on the neural basis of associative learning in animals, earning a Ph.D. in 1993. After two postdoctoral years at Yale studying the neural basis of emotional learning and memory in animals, he switched to the human brain and moved to Stanford University as a postdoctoral research fellow in 1995. At Stanford, he learned how to conduct functional magnetic resonance imaging studies in the laboratory of Professor John Gabrieli, where Dr. Canli was one of the first researchers to use a cognitive neuroscience approach to the study of extraversion and neuroticism, two fundamental human personality traits.
In 2001, he joined the Psychology faculty of Stony Brook University. He is also a member of the Stony Brook Graduate program in Genetics, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Würzburg, Germany. His current research is concerned with the biology of emotion, personality, and individual differences. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, magnetic brain stimulation, and molecular genetic techniques, Dr. Canli investigates how and why we differ from each other in our responses to emotional experiences. He recently edited a book on the "Biology of
Personality".
Dr. Canli is also a co-founding member and executive board member of the Neuroethics Society, which is concerned with ethical applications of Neuroscience in the real world, including forensic psychology, neuromarketing, behavior prediction, and the war on terror. |
