News & Announcements
- Homewood Brain and Cognition Lecture
Friday, May 18, 2012, 3 p.m. Mason Hall Auditorium
The Minds Eye: Brain Mechanisms for Seeing, Understanding, and Using Objects.
See Flyer - Distracted Driving: Can You Drive and Talk on a Cell at the Same Time? Listen to Krieger School Brain Scientist and Chair of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Dr. Steven Yantis, on the Diane Rehm Show on NPR talking about the National Transportation Safety Board’s proposed ban on the use of cell phones by motorists, except in emergencies.
- Infants may not remember what they saw, but they remember that they saw something, according to researchers. “This study addresses one of the classic problems in the study of infant development: What information do infants need to remember about an object in order to remember that it still exists once it is out of their view?” says Melissa Kibbe, Psychological & Brain Sciences Postdoctoral Researcher. For more, read the Futurity.org article and review the original study.
- The Neuroscience of Cooperation: Are animals - and humans - hardwired to collaborate? If the incredible duets of some South American wrens are any indication, the answer is "Yes!" Listen to their melodic, precise and amazingly fast-paced songs. You'll hear them midway through and again at the end of this Academic Minute with Dr. Eric Fortune. His research examines how neural systems control behavior, using integrative studies that exploit the strong relations between behavioral adaptations, neural mechanisms, and the evolutionary and natural histories of the organism.
- Thanks for the memories: Dr. Mike Yassa is making great strides in memory research and taking students along with him. Read more in the Fall 2011 online issue of Johns Hopkins Arts & Sciences magazine and listen to Dr. Yassa's interview with Sheilah Kast on WYPR Maryland Morning.
- A new study from JHU psychologists shows that math ability is inborn. As the New York Times reports,“We were interested in the earliest math abilities that children have, from before they enter school,” Dr. Melissa Libertus said. Understanding this could help level the playing field in mathematics among children. Full coverage on this study and the relationship between approximate number sense and math ability can be found at Time.com, MSNBC,and NYT.com.
- An existing anti-seizure drug improves memory and brain function in adults with a form of cognitive impairment that often leads to full-blown Alzheimer’s disease, a Johns Hopkins University study has found. The findings raise the possibility that doctors will someday be able to use the drug, levetiracetam, already approved for use in epilepsy patients, to slow the abnormal loss of brain function in some aging patients before their condition becomes Alzheimer’s. (Read more...)
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