Congratulations Max Mehlman, one of the winners of the 2014 Graduate Student Poster Awards!
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Peter Tse ’84, professor of psychological and brain sciences, is among 178 scholars, artists, and scientists in the United States and Canada awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for 2014.
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Jon Freeman, an assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences, is featured on Pacific Standard’s list of the 30 “top thinkers” under the age of 30.
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Professor Peter Tse ’84 has won two PROSE awards from the American Association of Publishers for his 2013 book, The Neural Basis of Free Will: Criterial Causation.
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A study by new faculty member Kyle Smith and MIT researcher Ann Graybiel have shown that activity in two habit-related areas can change in different, complementary ways as habits are formed, broken, and replaced. Using a technique called optogenetics to inhibit this activity with light in real-time, the authors show that preventing habit-related activity in one of the areas can prevent habits from forming in the first place.
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