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Professor Caroline Robertson Awarded DCAL Grant to Enhance Student Learning Through VR Headsets

March 3, 2021

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.
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Professor Thalia Wheatley quoted in "Scientific American"

March 3, 2021

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."
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Study Provides Deep Dive on the Neuroscience of Placebo Effects

March 2, 2021

A new meta-analysis gives the most detailed look yet at the neuroscience of placebo effects.
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How Do Our Memories Take Shape?

February 11, 2021

Dartmouth study shows how experiences are committed to memory and recounted to others.
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Thalia Wheatley Appointed Lincoln Filene Professor in Human Relations

October 12, 2020

"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."
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