Invited talk at Neuroscience, Law, Psychology, and Beyond symposium
Two weeks ago I spoke at the 4th Neuroscience, Law, Psychology, and Beyond symposium, which this time was hosted at Kadir Has University.
The theme of the symposium was ‘Neuotechnologies’, so I decided to rain on everyone’s parade, and give a talk called “Can ‘Mood Reading’, or Emotion-Recognition Technologies, Ever be Possible? A Counter-Argument”. This, I must admit, leaned heavily on Lisa Feldman Barrett and James Russell. In the spirit of starting an interesting discussion, I tried to make the point that engineering research on ’emotion-recognition’ technologies is usually several decades behind the current psychological theory, and is trying to do something that quite a lot of emotion theorists believe is logically impossible.
The event was filmed, hopefully I’ll be able to post the video here at some point …