2018 Neuroscience Day at Dartmouth
This day-long event highlights neuroscience research contributions at Dartmouth and features expert talks, a poster session, a panel discussion, and a keynote lecture.
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Top Stories
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Study focuses on connections between friends
A new study by Caroline Parkinson and Thalia Wheatley shows the similarities between friends and was recently featured in The New York Times.
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Dr. Sheena Josselyn delivers the 2018 Leaton Lecture
On January 26, 2018 the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences welcomed Dr. Sheena Josselyn as this year’s Leaton Lecturer in Behavioral Neuroscience.
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Hudenko wins 2017 Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching
The Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning has awarded PBS Adjunct Assistant Professor William Hudenko the 2017 Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching.
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Welcoming Assistant Professor Meghan Meyer to PBS
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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Assistant Professor Kyle Smith is a "Scientist to Watch"
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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Learning adjusts to the environment but sub-optimally
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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Study: Teens' View of Fairness Shifts as Brain Develops
Professor Luke Chang's research links cortical thinning over time to the ability to consider others’ intentions.
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Dartmouth Symposium on the Young Mind and Brain
A one-day symposium bringing together researchers for talks and discussion on the developing brain.
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PBS Student Wins Award at Graduate Poster Session
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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Recent Publications
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Our sense of direction: progress, controversies, and challenges.
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Metaplasticity as a Neural Substrate for Adaptive Learning Choice under Uncertainty
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Why people are always thinking about themselves:Medial prefrontal cortex activity during rest primes self-referential processing
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Optimal Structure of Metaplasticity for Adaptive Learning.
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