Peter Tse '84 Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship

Peter Tse ’84, professor of psychological and brain sciences, is among 178 scholars, artists, and scientists in the United States and Canada awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for 2014. Read more about Peter Tse '84 Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship

The 30 Top Thinkers Under 30 (Pacific Standard)

Jon Freeman, an assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences, is featured on  Pacific Standard’s list of the 30 “top thinkers” under the age of 30. Read more about The 30 Top Thinkers Under 30 (Pacific Standard)

Brain Scientist's Study of Neural Free Will Collects Honors

Professor Peter Tse ’84 has won two PROSE awards from the American Association of Publishers for his 2013 book, The Neural Basis of Free Will: Criterial Causation. Read more about Brain Scientist's Study of Neural Free Will Collects Honors

Decoding Habits in the Brain

 A study by new faculty member Kyle Smith and MIT researcher Ann Graybiel have shown that activity in two habit-related areas can change in different, complementary ways as habits are formed, broken, and replaced. Using a technique called optogenetics to inhibit this activity with light in real-time, the authors show that preventing habit-related activity in one of the areas can prevent habits from forming in the first place. Read more about Decoding Habits in the Brain

Network structure and dynamics of the mental workspace

We used multivariate pattern analysis of fMRI data to reveal a widespread neural network that performs specific mental manipulations on the contents of visual imagery. Read more about Network structure and dynamics of the mental workspace

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Magnetic field effects on head direction and subicular place cell responses

The recent discovery that rodents have a well-developed magnetic compass sense has stimulated interest in the neural mechanism responsible for detecting and processing magnetic information in mammals. Image - Model of Radical Pair Mechanism response (data from Cintelosi et al. 2003). Read more about Magnetic field effects on head direction and subicular place cell responses

Exercising during pregnancy enhances cognition in offspring

A recent study published by Andrea Robinson and David Bucci in the journal Neuroscience indicates that exercising during pregnancy can improve recognition memory in the offspring when they are tested as adults.  Read more about Exercising during pregnancy enhances cognition in offspring

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Travis Todd Receives New Investigator Award

Dr. Travis Todd, a postdoctoral fellow in Professor David Bucci’s laboratory, has received the 2013 New Investigator Award from the American Psychological Association (Division of Experimental Psychology). Read more about Travis Todd Receives New Investigator Award

How Imagination Works (Popular Science)

Popular Science features new Dartmouth research that focuses on what the brain’s “mental workplace” looks like when people manipulate images in their mind. Read more about How Imagination Works (Popular Science)

Dartmouth graduate student Alex Schlegel reviews brain scans to elucidate the changes in white matter during the process of learning.

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