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  • Rare Disorder Leaves Woman Lost in Familiar Places

    May 15, 2013
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    In a story about a rare disorder that makes it difficult for people to recognize even familiar places, NBC’s The Today Show interviews Dartmouth’s Jeffrey Taube, who studies the navigational processes used by rats

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  • Neuroscientist Says Humans Are Wired for Free Will

    March 11, 2013
    Professor Peter Ulric Tse ’84 argues in his new book that free will is real and can be pinpointed in the microscopic workings of human brain cells. (Photo by Eli Burakian)

    Dartmouth’s Peter Tse ’84, an associate professor of psychological and brain sciences, says he has identified a neurological basis for free will in the human brain, challenging a majority opinion that has dominated neuroscience for the last 40 years.

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  • How Music and Movement Communicate Emotion

    January 23, 2013
    Thalia Wheatley and translator Trent Walker invited the entire Kreung village of L’Ak to hear about the study and how similar the results were to those of Dartmouth students. (Photo courtesy of Thalia Wheatley)

    Thalia Wheatley, an associate professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences (PBS) at Dartmouth, is leading a study about the way humans respond to both music and movement.

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