Professor (Open Rank), Social Psychology/Social Neuroscience
PBS seeks applications for up to two tenure/tenure-track appointments (open rank).
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Top Stories
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Prosopagnosics have widespread selectivity reductions
People with developmental prosopagnosia (DP) have extremely poor face recognition and even have problems recognizing the faces of family and close friends.
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Study Examines Why People are Always Thinking About Themselves
PBS Professor Meghan Meyer's recent paper published in Cerebral Cortex was highlighted in Scientific American.
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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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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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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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