Our 2021 department awards have been announced. Congratulations graduate students!

The Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences wishes to congratulate its 2021 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 five graduates who successfully completed the PhD program and defended their dissertations in the 2020-2021 academic year.

Researchers identify three brain areas that bridge the brain's perception and memory systems.

Dartmouth study shows it creates social connections and allows for indirect learning.

Three Dartmouth professors honored with "Rising Star" award from the Association for Psychological Science for their early career achievements.

"When we're paying full attention – like a small child – to events, we'll notice the succession of events. This will expand our experience of time. It will give us a much richer experience of the world. Everything – once you pay attention to it – is really quite amazing." - Dr. Peter Tse

The students of Dr. Caroline Robertson's 21W Cognitive Neuroscience class can better understand course concepts by directly experiencing some of the psychological phenomena that they are learning about. Assistant Professor Robertson was awarded a grant from the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning, in collaboration with John Bell at the Dev Studio, to develop VR experiments and experiences for the class.

Regarding conversations, Dr. Wheatley told Scientific American journalist Rachel Nuwer, they are "such an elegant expression of mutual coordination, and yet it all falls apart at the end because we just can't figure out when to stop."

Much of the benefit that a person gets from taking a real drug or receiving a treatment to alleviate pain is due to an individual's mindset...