A recent paper by a research team including Professor Peter U. Tse, Professor Patrick Cavanagh, and Sirui Liu has been published in Current Biology and highlighted in Mind Matters.
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August 20, 2019
Research led by Assistant Professor Caroline Robertson has identified a non-verbal, neural marker of autism which offers an objective way to potentially diagnose autism in the future.
July 12, 2018
People with developmental prosopagnosia (DP) have extremely poor face recognition and even have problems recognizing the faces of family and close friends. We carried out a comprehensive investigation of the neural basis of DP by comparing brain responses to multiple visual categories in DPs and people with normal face processing.
February 06, 2018
A new study by Caroline Parkinson and Thalia Wheatley shows the similarities between friends and was recently featured in The New York Times.
September 27, 2017
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....
September 21, 2017
Professor Luke Chang's research links cortical thinning over time to the ability to consider others’ intentions.
April 28, 2017
Professor Thalia Wheatley's study of pupil dilation has found patterns that can reveal when two minds connect.
January 12, 2017
PBS Department Chair, Professor David Bucci, flips the neural switches to replicate an “adolescent brain.”...
September 10, 2013
Neuroscience plays a starring role in a two-part series Brains on Trial With Alan Alda, airing on PBS Wednesday, September 11, and Wednesday, September 18, from 10 to 11 p.m., a project that Dartmouth Professor Thalia Wheatley, an expert in brain science and social intelligence, worked on as a consultant.
August 28, 2013
In a story about “super recognizers”—people who have an exceptional ability to remember faces—ScienceNews turns for comment to Dartmouth’s Bradley Duchaine.