Psychological and Brain Sciences

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Psychological science is traditionally defined as the study of behavior; neuroscience as the study of the nervous system. As a Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences we are focused on understanding mind and behavior in terms of underlying psychological processes that have their genesis in neural activity in the brain.

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Congratulations to Our Newest PhDs!

8/6/2025

The Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences is proud to announce ten graduates who successfully completed the PhD program and defended their dissertations in the 2024-2025 academic year.
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Partnership Brings Dartmouth to Underserved High Schools

7/23/2025

The National Education Equity Lab enables students to take a Dartmouth class.
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Psychological and Brian Sciences Graduate Students Awarded

6/30/2025

Congratulations to our outstanding graduate students who received PBS department awards this year!

Recent Publications

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Hippocampus 2025; 35:e23670.

The discovery of head direction cells: A personal account.

Jeffrey Steven Taube

Nature Communications, 16, 9755 (2025)

The head-direction signal is generated from two types of head direction cells in brainstem nuclei

JS Taube, WN Butler, JR Dumont, JA Graham, JL Marcroft, ME Shinder, RW Stackman Jr, RM Yoder

Current Biology, 35(1), 121-130.

Memory-based predictions prime perceptual judgments across head turns in immersive, real-world scenes

Mynick, A., Steel, A., Jayaraman, A., Botch, T. L., Burrows, A., & Robertson, C. E.

PAIN 166(1):p 87-98, January 2025

Independent effects of transcranial direct current stimulation and social influence on pain

Amin Dehghani, Carmena Bango, Ethan K. Murphy, Ryan J. Halter, Tor Wager

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