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Dartmouth Researchers Map How the Brain Regulates Emotions Study identifies multiple emotion regulation systems, providing targets for therapy. If Faces Appear Distorted, You Could Have This Condition Research presents a unique case of a patient with prosopometamorphopsia. Adithi Jayaraman ’24 Wins Keasbey Scholarship The psychology major is interested in the human brain and translational research. PBS Graduate Student Miriam Janssen’s Paper Receives D.G. Marquis Behavioral Neuroscience Award Graduate student Miriam Janssen’s paper, "The Motivational Role of the Ventral Striatum and Amygdala in Learning From Gains and Losses," was awarded the 2023 D.G. Marquis Behavioral Neuroscience Award. "Why Do People Believe Weird Things?" John Pfister Hosts Dowser in Science and Pseudoscience Seminar Senior Lecturer John Pfister recently invited renowned author and dowser, Tick Gaudreau, to visit his first-year seminar course, "Science, Pseudoscience, and Thinking Critically about Human Behavior." PBS Graduate Student Yong Hoon Chung Wins APA Early Graduate Student Researcher Award PBS Störmer Lab Graduate student Yong Hoon Chung won the American Psychological Association Early Graduate Student Researcher Award, which recognizes students for outstanding research early in their graduate training. How Information Is Transferred From Perception to Memory A seesaw-like neural code enables the recall of memories. Neuroscience Day at Dartmouth The annual Neuroscience Day at Dartmouth will take place on Saturday, March 2, on the Dartmouth College Campus. Please register by February 23. Alumnus Receives Top Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis Patrick LaChance, Guarini ’22, wins Lindsley Prize in Behavioral Neuroscience. Recent Publications view all The anterior thalamus preferentially drives allocentric but not egocentric orientation tuning in postrhinal cortex. Patrick LaChance, Jeffrey Steven Taube Journal of Neuroscience, 2024, 44(10):e0861232024, pp 1-17 Deep social neuroscience: The promise and peril of using artificial neural networks to study the social brain. Beau Sievers, Mark A. Thornton Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, February 2024, 19(1) Comparison of head direction cell firing characteristics across thalamo-parahippocampal circuitry. Clark BJ, LaChance PA, Shawn S. Winter , Mehlman ML, Jeffrey Steven Taube , et al. Hippocampus, 04 January 2024, 1-29 Angular head velocity cells within brainstem nuclei projecting to the head direction circuit Jalina Graham , Julie R. Dumont, Shawn S. Winter , Joel Brown, Patrick LaChance, et al. Journal of Neuroscience 43: 8403-8424. Events view all Jun 05 10:30AM Innovators in Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar Series Zoom - link TBA Please join us for a talk given by Dr. Ali Ochoa Cohen, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Emory University. 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