Elizabeth Anya Phelps is the Pershing Square Professor of Human Neuroscience at Harvard University in the Department of Psychology.
She is a known for her research on uncovering how the human brain processes emotion and its influence on learning, memory and decision making.
She attended college at Ohio Wesleyan University and earned a bachelor's degree in 1984, with a major in psychology and a minor in Philosophy.
[6] Phelps's research focuses on how our emotions affect the way brain systems function in relation to memory and learning.
Phelps paired colored squares and mild shocks to participants' wrist to create a fear memory.