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Chaz Firestone Receives Stanton Prize

Chaz Firestone Receives Stanton Prize

Congratulations to Chaz Firestone! Chaz has been awarded the Stanton Prize by the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. The award is given to a young scholar in philosophy or psychology who […]

Study hopes to unlock secrets of animal time perception

Study hopes to unlock secrets of animal time perception

Neuroscientist Cynthia Moss and colleagues from around the world will design experiments to test animal cognition.

New study quantifies visual perceptual decision-making in freely behaving mice.

Wen-Kai You, a postdoctoral scholar in the Mysore Lab has put hard numbers on key stages in the time course of visual perceptual decisions in mice. This study was published […]

New study discovers a specific brain mechanism for generating categorical neural responses.

Nagaraj Mahajan, a doctoral student in the Mysore Lab has identified, for the first time, an neural circuit mechanism that controls causally the generation of categorical responses in the brain. […]

Sholei Croom receives Graduate Research Fellowship Award from the National Science Foundation

Congratulations to Sholei Croom on receiving the prestigious Graduate Fellowship Award from the National Science Foundation. The NSF GRFP recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines who […]

Kishore Kuchibhotla Receives NSF Career Award

Kishore Kuchibhotla Receives NSF Career Award

Congratulations to Kishore Kuchibhotla on receiving NSF’s prestigious CAREER award for his exciting project is titled “The control of learning rate through multi-timescale cholinergic neuromodulation”. NSF CAREER awards are made to […]

New study is the first to show that curious babies become curious toddlers

New study is the first to show that curious babies become curious toddlers

Lisa Feigenson, professor and director of the Laboratory for Child Development, was featured in the Fall 2021 Johns Hopkins Magazine for her work on curiosity in babies in toddlers.

Jason Fischer explains the psychology behind the pumpkin spice craze

Jason Fischer explains the psychology behind the pumpkin spice craze

Assistant Professor Jason Fischer discusses how the brain processes smells and memories in The Baltimore Sun and other major media.

Shreesh Mysore receives NSF CAREER award

Shreesh Mysore receives NSF CAREER award

Congratulations to Shreesh Mysore on receiving NSF’s prestigious CAREER award for investigating neural circuit mechanisms of spatial target selection in the mammalian midbrain. NSF CAREER awards are made to support […]

Ninad Kothari awarded Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellowship from NIH

Congratulations to Ninad Kothari on receiving the Ruth L. Kirschstein postdoctoral NRSA felllowship , awarded to “promising postdoctoral candidates who have the potential to become productive, independent investigators in scientific […]