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Dr. Brenda Rapp has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 SNL Distinguished Career Award

Dr. Brenda Rapp has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 SNL Distinguished Career Award

Brenda Rapp has been awarded the Society of Neurobiology of Language Distinguished Career Award for her groundbreaking work on aphasia! Our sincerest congratulations go out to her for this richly […]

Behavioral Neuroscientists Identify Attention Control Neurons in Brainstem

Behavioral Neuroscientists Identify Attention Control Neurons in Brainstem

Shreesh Mysore and Ninad Kothari’s work on an evolutionarily ancient circuit for attentional control has appeared in Nature Communications and the Hub!

Postdoctoral Fellow in Kuchibhotla Lab published in Nature Communications & The Hub!

Postdoctoral Fellow in Kuchibhotla Lab published in Nature Communications & The Hub!

Congrats to Sharlen and other members of the Kuchibhotla lab for their publication in Nature Communications, and feature in the HUB! Their research supports the conclusion that habits can form more […]

Noa Perlmutter received an NSF fellowship!

Noa Perlmutter received an NSF fellowship!

We are extraordinarily proud of her securing funding to support her research in the Firestone/Phillips lab.

Primate Researcher Chris Krupenye featured in the New York Times!

Primate Researcher Chris Krupenye featured in the New York Times!

Former PBS post doc Amalia Bastos and amazing PBS Assistant Professor Chris Krupenye have a new paper in Science out today on Bonobos’ ability to play pretend, which was previously assumed to […]

Inattentional blindness research featured in Johns Hopkins Magazine

Inattentional blindness research featured in Johns Hopkins Magazine

Neuroscience research from Makaela, Chaz, Hhoward, and Ian was published in eLife before being highlighted by the Johns Hopkins Magazine.

Yun Fei Liu & Marina Bedny published in Journal of Neuroscience

Yun Fei Liu & Marina Bedny published in Journal of Neuroscience

Their new paper in the Journal of Neuroscience examines the brains of Hopkins novice computer programmers before and after taking a semester-long course in Python. You can check out their […]

Congratulations to Dr. Cindy Moss

Congratulations to Dr. Cindy Moss

Dr. Moss just received an award from the Simons Foundation to collaborate with 20 other PIs on an ecological neuroscience project about sensorimotor cognition across different species! You can read […]

Congratulations to Luz Carvajal and Chris Krupenye!

Congratulations to Luz Carvajal and Chris Krupenye!

They have just published a new paper in Proceedings B on apes’ ability to represent hidden entities and were featured in The Hub.

Congratulations to Keegan Eveland!

Congratulations to Keegan Eveland!

Keegan is the recipient of the Institute of International Education (IIE)‘s 2025 Quad Fellowship! This fellowship is awarded to successful scholars with a strong dedication to creating positive social impact […]