Emily Brudner
Emily.g.brudner@psychology.rutgers.edu
Emily Brudner (she/her) is a PhD candidate in the psychology department at Rutgers-Newark. Her research examines the neural mechanisms of social reward valuation and how these processes influence decision making and social behavior. Currently, her main lines of investigation include: 1) the influence of social feedback on reinforcing positive social sharing behavior, with implications for social bonding, social media use, and wellbeing; and 2) the influence of environmental adversity (e.g., stress, scarcity) on social reward valuation and decision making. Emily is originally from Windsor, ON Canada and received her Bachelor of Science degree with honors in psychology and biology from the University of Miami. Prior to joining the Delgado Lab, Emily completed undergraduate and post-baccalaureate research in Dr. Amishi Jha’s cognitive neuroscience lab, where she studied the effects of mindfulness meditation on cognitive functioning in high-stress populations (e.g., military service members, first-responders) and used EEG to study the influence of expectations on emotion processing.
Featured Publications
Botvinik-Nezer, R. et al. [including Brudner, E. G.] (2020). Variability in the analysis of a single functional neuroimaging dataset by many groups. Nature, 582, pp. 84-88. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2314-9
Denkova, E., Brudner, E. G., Zayan, K., Dunn, J., & Jha, A. P. (2018). Attenuated face processing during mind wandering: An ERP investigation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 30(11), pp. 1691-1703. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01312
Brudner, E. G., Denkova, E., Paczynski, M., & Jha, A. P. (2017). The role of expectations and habitual emotion regulation in emotion processing: An ERP investigation. Emotion, 18(2), pp. 171-180. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0000313