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.
The Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences wishes to congratulate its 2024 psychology and neuroscience majors and minors. We are very proud to announce our high achieving department award winners and honors students.
The Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences is proud to announce two graduates who successfully completed the PhD program and defended their dissertations in the 2023-2024 academic year.
Psychology major Jason Davis '25, advised by Viola Stoermer, is the grand prize winner of this year's MAD Research Video contest.
Katherine Jia '27, advised by Mark Thornton and Landry Bulls, is a runner up.
The 2023 Upper Valley Brain Bee winner, Harini Venkatesh took first place last month in the 2024 USA National Brain Bee Championship. Harini expressed her gratitude for the help of PBS graduate students Elizabeth Bien and Erica Townsend, and PBS Instructor Shawn Winter "for helping me learn material for the practical portion of the exam."
Second-year PBS graduate student Deepasri Prasad was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for her winning project proposal, "Understanding the behavioral and neural effects of multisensory context on scene memory."
The Glushko Dissertation Prize highlights interdisciplinary work that advances the scientific understanding of the nature of minds and intelligent systems. Dae will receive the award this July in the Netherlands at the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Associate Professor Luke Chang was awarded the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society 2024 Mid-Career Award to recognize his significant contributions to Social and Affective Neuroscience in terms of outstanding scholarship and service to the field.