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  • How Imagination Works (Popular Science)

    September 17, 2013
    Dartmouth graduate student Alex Schlegel reviews brain scans to elucidate the changes in white matter during the process of learning.

    Popular Science features new Dartmouth research that focuses on what the brain’s “mental workplace” looks like when people manipulate images in their mind.

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  • Alda’s ‘Brains on Trial’ Tapped Dartmouth’s Expertise

    September 10, 2013
    Professor Thalia Wheatley discusses her research with actor Alan Alda during his visit to campus in April 2012. (Photo by Eli Burakian ’00)

    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.

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  • Familiar Faces (ScienceNews)

    August 28, 2013
    Bradley Duchaine, an associate professor of psychological and brain sciences, is researching what goes awry in the brains of prosopagnosics--people who are unable to recognize faces. (Photo by Eli Burakian '00)

    In a story about “super recognizers”—people who have an exceptional ability to remember faces—ScienceNews turns for comment to Dartmouth’s Bradley Duchaine.

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  • Scientists Identify an Off Switch for Bad Habits

    August 5, 2013
    Assistant Professor Kyle Smith and colleagues have identified brain cells involved in habit formation and inhibition. (Photo by Eli Burakian ’00)

    Assistant Professor Kyle Smith, who joined the faculty of Dartmouth’s Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences in July, has identified brain cells involved in habit formation and inhibition.

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