Assistant Professor Meghan Meyer joined the PBS Faculty in July, 2017. Her research focuses on integrating social and cognitive neuroscience to understand what drives our ability and need to think about the social world around us.
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The Scientist magazine featured PBS Assistant Professor Kyle Smith as a Scientist to Watch in their November 2017 edition. Professor Smith joined the faculty at Dartmouth in 2013, and research in his lab focuses on reward response and habit formation.
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A Dartmouth-led study published in Neuron reveals that there's not a single rate of learning for everything we do, as the brain can self-adjust its learning rates using a synaptic mechanism called metaplasticity.
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Professor Luke Chang's research links cortical thinning over time to the ability to consider others’ intentions.
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A one-day symposium bringing together researchers for talks and discussion on the developing brain.
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Professor Thalia Wheatley's study of pupil dilation has found patterns that can reveal when two minds connect.
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Congratulations to Jin Hyung Cheong from the Chang Lab in PBS, one of five students to receive an award for his poster at the annual Dartmouth Graduate Poster Session.
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Congratulations to PBS graduate students Sarah Herald and Nicole DeAngeli who both received 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards. Sarah and Nicole are two of the three Dartmouth recipients.
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PBS Department Chair, Professor David Bucci, flips the neural switches to replicate an “adolescent brain.”
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Professor Thalia Wheatley and Professor Peter Tse tackle this question in an episode of Closer to Truth, a program that airs on many PBS stations. The episode is one in a series entitled Big Questions in Free Will.
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