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...

The human brain is constantly evaluating which aspects of experiences to either remember for later, ignore, or forget. Dartmouth researchers...

"Endowed professorships provide a means of recognizing the scholarship and teaching of some of our most accomplished faculty members," says Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Elizabeth Smith. "Their contributions to the creation and dissemination of knowledge at Dartmouth and beyond are truly extraordinary."

The Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences is pleased to welcome our newest PhD students beginning in the fall of 2020.

"Every time we see a face, the brain adjusts our representation of that face so its size, viewpoint, and orientation is matched to faces stored in memory, just like computer face recognition systems such as those used by Facebook and Google." - Brad Duchaine

PBS is pleased to welcome new Assistant Professor Emily Finn, who joined our faculty in the summer of 2020. Professor Finn will be teaching PSYC 60: Principles of Human Brain Mapping with fMRI in winter 2021.

PBS is pleased to announce the addition of Professor Mark Thornton to our faculty in the summer of 2020. Professor Thornton will be teaching PSYC 10: Experimental Design, Methodology, and Data Analysis in Winter 2021 and PSYC 43: Emotion in Spring 2021.

2020 graduates from the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences PhD program receive awards from our department and from the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies.