Dr. Tyler Stevenson, A&S ’11, will receive the Michael Harbuz Prize for Young Investigators at the Society for Behavioral Neuroscience’s annual conference, awarded to honor the memory of and contribution to neuroendocrinology […]
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What free will looks like in the brain
Dr. Susan Courtney’s latest research on decision-making and brain activity will be published in the journal Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics.
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Janak Lab researchers locate what could be brain’s trigger for binge behavior
Dr. Jocelyn Richard’s findings suggest a connection between a largely unstudied region of the brain and the tendency to overindulge.
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Ability to Ignore Is a Key Part of Paying Attention
People searching for something can find it faster if they know what to look for. But new research suggests knowing what not to look for can be just as helpful.
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Bat Brain Behavior Offers Key Insights Into How We Focus Our Attention
With so many sounds in the world, how does the brain decide which ones get your attention? Our researchers think a bat's brain could hold some answers.
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Why Is Breaking Bad Habits Hard? Our Brains Are Biased by Past Rewards
Prof. Susan Courtney and her team demonstrate for the first time that when people see something associated with a past reward, their brain flushes with dopamine—even if they aren't expecting a reward and even if they don't realize they're paying attention. The results suggest we don't have as much self-control as we might think.
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Johns Hopkins Researchers Identify Neurons That Can Abruptly Halt a Planned Behavior
Johns Hopkins University researchers, working with scientists at the National Institute on Aging, have identified the precise nerve cells that allow the brain to make this type of split-second change of course.
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Drug for Early Alzheimer’s Heads to Clinical Trial
Johns Hopkins University researchers have received an estimated $7.5 million National Institutes of Health grant to clinically test what would be the first treatment to prevent or delay the onset of Alzheimer's dementia.
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Study Shows Remarkable Adaptability of Brain’s Vision Center
By early childhood, the sight regions of a blind person's brain respond to sound, especially spoken language, a study by Professor Marina Bedny has found.
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The Color We See Isn’t the Color We Remember
Though people can distinguish between millions of colors, we have trouble remembering specific shades because our brains tend to store what we've seen as one of just a few basic hues, a team led by Prof. Jonathan Flombaum discovered.