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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We used multivariate pattern analysis of fMRI data to reveal a widespread neural network that performs specific mental manipulations on the contents of visual imagery.
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The recent discovery that rodents have a well-developed magnetic compass sense has stimulated interest in the neural mechanism responsible for detecting and processing magnetic information in mammals. Image - Model of Radical Pair Mechanism response (data from Cintelosi et al. 2003).
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