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2025 Dean's and Sophomore Scholars Announced
Congratulations to the Psychology & Neuroscience 2025 Dean's and Sophomore Scholars! This year's recipients are:
Neuroscience
Sophomores: Madison Grady, Peyton Zarate
Juniors: Yudam Chang, Tyler de Grandpre, Madeleine Pinney
Psychology
Sophomores: Kelly Choi, Faith Hochgesang, Lizzy Lamprey, Sarah McNickle, Dave Nelson, Angel Wang
Juniors: Miracle Hodge, Pearl Miller, Veronica Wells
Show MoreWilliams & McDannald Lab publish in eLife
Former Lab Tech David Williams and the McDannald Lab have published an article on fear conditioning in rats in the journal eLife.
Read it here: https://elifesciences.org/articles/102782#content
Heyman, Ryu, and Brownell Highlighted in AAAS and BC News
A 2024 paper authored by psychology professors Gene Heyman, Ehri Ryu, and Hiram Brownell titled "Evidence that intergenerational income mobility is the strongest predictor of drug overdose deaths in U. S. Midwest counties" has been featured in the Boston College Chronicle, the BC News website, and EurekAlert, the news service of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Heyman was interviewed for the article, explaining the goal of the research and its findings.
Read the article here: https://www.bc.edu//content/bc-web/sites/bc-news/articles/2025/spring/income-mobility-and-opioid-overdoses.html
Show MoreProfessor Ritchey Awarded Early Investigator Award
Dr. Maureen Ritchey, associate professor and director of the Memory Modulation Lab, has been awarded the 2025 Early Investigator Award from the Society of Experimental Psychologists. Congrats!
PhD Student Trystan Loustau Publishes in TIME
PhD student Trystan Loustau, along with her advisor, Liane Young, have published an article on Time.com, discussing how we can learn from people with Autism to be more mentally resilient, especially when it comes to social media. You can read the article, titled What People With Autism Can Teach Us About Mental Resilience here: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzQZSZGgsCVprwXtgqdnhVZdCRxB
Elizabeth Kensinger in Boston Globe Article on Memory
Elizabeth Kensinger is quoted in a Boston Globe article on why adults in their 30s and 40s are reporting memory lapses: People in their 30s and 40s are facing an unprecedented wave of memory problems
Psychology Alumna Samantha Cohane Publishes Paper with Barry Schneider
Congratulations to BC Alumna Samantha Cohane ('24) for her recent publication in Frontier with Barry Schneider! Read the paper, based on her undergraduate research, here: Understanding the situation of bystanders to inform anti-bullying interventions
Heyman, Ryu, Brownell Publish New Paper
Gene Heyman, Ehri Ryu, and Hiram Brownell recently published a paper in the October issue of the International Journal of Drug Policy, titled: Evidence that intergenerational income mobility is the strongest predictor of drug overdose deaths in U.S. Midwest Counties.
Tishelman Interviewed by NPR about Trans Youth Healthcare
Professor Amy Tishelman was recently interviewed by NPR about transgender youth healthcare for AirTalk. Listen to the podcast here:
Show MoreNYT Describes Study by Boston College CAN Lab
In discussing older adults’ mental wellbeing, the NY Times describes a study conducted by Profs. Jackie Ford and Elizabeth Kensinger, graduate student Sandry Garcia, and postdoc alums Eric Fields and Tony Cunningham.
Read the article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/08/briefing/mental-health-anxiety-depression.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
Show MoreChu, Anzellotti, and McDannald Publish in eLife
Dr. Amanda Chu, Dr. Stefano Anzellotti, and the McDannald lab publish "A fear conditioned cue orchestrates a suite of behaviors in rats" in eLife.
Read here: https://elifesciences.org/articles/82497
Show MoreKensinger Featured on Speaking of Alzheimer's
Elizabeth Kensinger was on the Speaking of Alzheimer's Podcast along with BC Research Associate Victoria Fisher and social work graduate student Josue Velasquez Higueros. They spoke on "Shaping the future of the aging & Dementia workforce"
Listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/shaping-the-future-of-the-aging-dementia-workforce/id1731172868?i=1000656492596
Kensinger Interviewed by Boston Globe
Professor Elizabeth Kensinger was interviewed about memory by the Boston Globe, in the context of a current murder. trial.
Read the article here: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/05/12/metro/karen-read-trial-questions-investigation-memory-connections/?p1=StaffPage
Show MoreDr. Liane Young on Templeton Ideas Podcast
Liane Young was recently interviewed for the Templeton Ideas podcast. On it, she discusses her research on theory of mind and emotions in moral judgment and behavior.
Listen here: https://www.templeton.org/news/the-fuzziness-of-right-and-wrong
Show MoreProfessor Amy Tishelman Interviewed for NPR's On Point
Dr. Amy Tishelman was recently interviewed by Meghna Chaktarabarti about trans youth care for an episode of the NPR program On Point.
Listen here: https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2024/05/08/hilary-cass-review-caution-nhs-gender-affirming-care-youth
Show MoreIncoming Graduate Students Receive Clough Center Fellowships
Incoming PhD students Helen Zheng and Seoyeon Bae Awarded Research Fellowships from the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy.
Petrovich Lab Publishes New Paper
Gorica Petrovich and former graduate student Eliza Greiner have published in Brain Structure and Function: Recruitment of hippocampal and thalamic pathways to the central amygdala in the control of feeding behavior under novelty.
Read PaperJacob Glassman Awarded Clough Center Research Fellowship
PhD student Jacob Glassman has been awarded a Fellowship from the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy. He will be pursuing research on developmental intergroup conflict resolution.
Graduate Student and Staff Honored by National Science Foundation
Graduate student Marcus Trenfield has been awarded an National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Additionally, research associate Lizy Szanton received an honorable mention from the same organization.
Isaac Handley-Miner Receives Two Grants
Graduate student Isaac Handley-Miner receives two grants, one from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to study comparatively how humans and large language models assess the validity of claims, and another from the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) to understand researcher practices and attitudes towards reporting pilot studies in psychology.
Senior Allison Pellegrino Speaks at Dean's Scholars Banquet
Allison Pellegrino, a Neuroscience major from the class of 2024, spoke at last night's Dean’s and Sophomore Scholar Banquet. Allison spoke thoughtfully of her own experiences both in and out of the classroom at BC, encouraging the sophomore and junior scholars being honored to discern their future by focusing on both the destination and the journey that will get them to that destination.
Congratulations to Allison and to our Dean's and Sophomore Scholars!
December 2023 Graduate Frances Grace Hart selected for the 2024 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Frances Grace Hart, who graduated in December 2023 with a BA in Psychology, has been selected for the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Grace's research proposal was titled "A computational investigation of the influence of death attitudes and religious identity on high risk behaviors." While at Boston College, Grace completed the Undergraduate Concentration in Clinical Psychology and her Honors Thesis research was conducted under the supervision of Dr. Courtney Beard at McLean Hospital and Dr. Karen Rosen.
2024 Dean's Scholars Announced
The following Psychology & Neuroscience students were selected as Dean's Scholars and distinguished Sophomore Scholars for the Morrisey College of Arts and Sciences for 2024.
Sophomores: Dylan Berry, Yudam Chang, Victoria Fertig, Miracle Hodge, Talia Matonti, Le (Sarah) You
Juniors: Sarah Bibace, Yinan (Lemon) Ding, Jack Doppke, Abigail Miller, Layla Oubssis, Anastasia Prussakova, Adelaide Royer, Hanan Sjah, Zhaoquan (Harold) Wang
They will be recognized at the Dean's Scholar banquet on Wednesday, April 10, in the Murray Function Room, Yawkey Athletic Center at 6:00 p.m.
Show MoreDecember 2023 Graduate Frances Grace Hart Receives 2024-2025 Fullbright Award
Frances Grace Hart, who graduated in December 2023 with a Psychology BA major,received a Fulbright Award for the 2024-2025 academic year. The award is to work at Leiden University in the Netherlands on a project using ecological momentary assessment data to evaluate the relationship between meaning in life and suicidal ideation. She completed the Psychology and Neuroscience Honors Program under the supervision of Dr. Courtney Beard at McLean Hospital and Dr. Karen Rosen. She also completed the requirements for the Concentration in Clinical Psychology. In the next few years, Grace plans to apply to graduate school to get her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology.
Josh Hartshorne and Collaborators awarded $1.4 million
Josh Hartshorne and his collaborators were awarded a $1.4 million NSF grant to support massive online cognitive experiments.
Jef Lamoureux elected President of the Eastern Psychological Association
Currently serving on EPA's Board of Directors, Jef has been elected to serve as President for the organization's annual meeting in 2026, which will be held here in Boston in February, 2026.
Dr. Elizabeth Kensinger wins PROSE Award
Elizabeth Kensinger's book Why We Forget and How to Remember Better has won the 2024 Associate of American Publishers PROSE Award in the “Biomedicine and Neuroscience” book
https://publishingperspectives.com/2024/03/the-aaps-prose-awards-2024-category-winners/
Show MoreGarcia Featured in Vice Provost for Research's Newsletter
Fourth year Ph.D student Sandry Garcia was featured in the "In The Trenches" section of the monthly newsletter from the Vice Provost for Research. Garcia, who works in the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab, studies how emotion affects memory in younger and older adults. Her most recent paper was published in the Cognition and Emotion Journal.
Read Sandry's paper here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02699931.2023.2270202
Show MoreNatalia Ladyka-Wojcik Receives NSERC Fellowship
Natalia Ladyka-Wojcik, a postdoc in the Memory Modulation Lab, was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
Freshmen Essays Published in Psychology Today
Faith Hochgesang and Peyton Zarate, students in Elizabeth Kensinger's fall course, "What Is Memory, and Why Does It Matter? The Science of Remembering" had their final essays for the class—written as blog posts—accepted for inclusion at Psychology Today:
Neurobiology of Feeding Behavior Lab Members Publish
Gorica Petrovich, former graduate student Eliza Greiner, and undergraduate honors thesis students Mary Witt and Stephanie Moran have published in Brain Structure and Function: Activation patterns in male and female forebrain circuitries during food consumption under novelty.
Faculty Publish in npj Science of Learning
Sara Cordes, Hiram Brownell, and Stacee Santos publish in npj Science of Learning: Language experience matters for the emergence of early numerical concepts
Mike McDannald Publishes in Journal of Neuroscience
Mike McDannald publishes a viewpoint on Pavlovian fear conditioning in the Journal of Neuroscience: Pavlovian Fear Conditioning Is More than You Think It Is
Marie Diagna Receives Culture and Cognition Travel Award
Marie Diagne received the Culture and Cognition Travel Award for 2023 with funding to attend the Culture and Cognition Pre-conference in November. This award is made possible by a grant awarded to the organizers by the National Science Foundation.
Sandry, Maureen, and Elizabeth in Cognition and Emotion
Sandry Garcia, Maureen Ritchey, and Elizabeth Kensinger published in Cognition and Emotion: How list composition affects the emotional enhancement of memory in younger and older adults
Preston Thakral Publishes in Creativity Research Journal
Preston Thakral and former undergraduate honors thesis student Connor Starkey have published in Creativity Research Journal: "Are false memory and creative thinking mediated by common neural substrates? An fMRI meta-analysis"
Amy Tishelman Appointed to NASEM Committee
Amy Tishelman was appointed to a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) Committee on Sex and Gender Identification and Implications for Disability Evaluation.
Amy Tishelman Awarded NIH Grant
Amy Tishelman was awarded an R01 grant through NICHD at NIH: "Equitable Measurement of Care Disparities and Needs in Intersex Youth/Youth with Variations in Sex Development." MPIs: Strang, Tishelman and Crerand (contact site: Children's National Hospital).
Matt Zimbler Talks Roommates with Boston.com
Matt Zimbler discusses the challenges of having a roommate with Boston.com: Tips for managing that roommate relationship
Josh Hartshorne's Work in The Guardian
Josh Hartshorne's work is discussed in The Guardian: Never past your prime! 13 peaks we reach at 40 or later – from sex to running to self-esteem
Psychology and Neuroscience at the Cambridge Science Festival
We’re participating in the Cambridge Science Festival! On Sept 27 at noon, join Prof. Elizabeth Kensinger for a “lunch and learn” on the topic of memory. Learn more and sign up here: Festival Guide
Joshua Hartshorne Interviewed on Forum
Joshua Hartshorne was interviewed about language-learning apps on NPR's Forum, produced by KQED: Parlez-Vous Duolingo? How Apps Can Help You Learn A Language
Angie Johnston Publishes in Journal of Comparative Psychology
Angie Johnston coauthored a paper that was accepted in the Journal of Comparative Psychology: Gaze in cats (Felis catus) and dogs (Canis lupus familiaris)
Josh Hartshorne Receives NSF Grant
Josh Hartshorne has been awarded another grant from NSF, entitled "Enabling large-scale citizen science data collection for the social, behavioral, and economic sciences."
Joshua Hartshorne Receives NSF Grant
Joshua Hartshorne was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation: "Bootstrapping a Corpus of Endangered Languages." This three-year grant will allow critical tests of current theories of language acquisition.
Joshua Hartshorne in Wall Street Journal
Joshua Hartshorne was quoted and his work discussed in the Wall Street Journal: Here’s When We Hit Our Physical and Mental Peaks
McDannald Lab Receives NIMH Grant
The McDannald lab received a five-year NIMH grant to study brainstem threat computation.
Josh Hartshorne Publishes in JEP: General
Josh Hartshorne publishes in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General—Cognitive control across the lifespan: Congruency effects reveal divergent developmental trajectories
Barry Schneider Publishes in International Journal of Behavioral Development
Barry's article about a longitudinal study of disadvantaged children in Reggio-inspired preschools in Italy has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Behavioral Development.
Ryan McManus Publishes in Social Neuroscience
Ryan’s paper "How unexpected events are processed in theory of mind regions: A conceptual replication" is published in Social Neuroscience the same week he graduates.
Commencement 2023
Congratulations to our Ph.D. and M.A. recipients, and to Stefano Anzellotti for the GSAS Teaching and Mentorship Award!
Ph.D. recipients: Ryan Daley, Paul Deutchman, Haley Fritch, Lindsey Hildebrand, Ryan McManus
M.A. recipient: Julia Maybury
Show MoreIsaac Handley-Miner Publishes in Scientific Reports
Isaac Handley-Miner publishes new work on the psychology of truth, along with colleagues in BC’s departments of Philosophy and Communications: The intentions of information sources can affect what information people think qualifies as true
Emily Schwartz and SCCN Publish
Emily Schwartz is the first author of a new SCCN lab paper that just came out in Journal of Neuroscience: Intracranial electroencephalography and deep neural networks reveal shared substrates for representations of face identity and expressions
Elizabeth Kensinger on Eagle Eye Podcast
Prof. Elizabeth Kensinger talked about memory with hosts Isabella and Elizabeth on the BC Eagle Eye Podcast.
Alyson Wong and Sara Cordes Publish in Developmental Science
Alyson Wong, Sara Cordes, Paul Harris, and Nadia Chernyak published a new article in Developmental Science: Being nice by choice: The effect of counterfactual reasoning on children's social evaluations
Psychology and Neuroscience Sophomore and Dean’s Scholar Winners
The Department of Psychology and Neuroscience is pleased to announce that six of our majors have been named Sophomore Scholars, and nine have been named Dean’s Scholars for 2023! Congratulations to these outstanding, intellectually curious students!
These are the highest academic awards given to sophomores and juniors, resulting from an MCAS-wide competition of the top 4-5% of students in each class. Each department nominates outstanding students through letters of recommendations summarizing their achievements, and a committee in the Dean’s Office makes the final selections.
Sophomore Scholars
The Sophomore Scholar award, according to the Dean’s Office, “recognizes their current distinction and their promise for the future.”
The Psychology and Neuroscience Department’s Sophomore Scholars this year are: Tracy Aggrey-Ansong, Yinan Ding, Jack Doppke, Emily Shi, Paterson Tran, and Grace Wen.
Dean’s Scholars
Dean’s Scholars are selected “on the basis of their overall academic performance, the recommendations from their departmental faculty, their co-curricular initiatives, and the sense of purpose with which they approach their future.”
Psychology and Neuroscience majors who are Dean’s Scholars this year are: Julianna Barbaro, Julia Bowers, Michael Colantuno, Luisa Esquivel, Nicholas Gordon, Chang Lu, Obinna Onyekachiuzoamaka, Allison Pellegrino, Wenshuo Qin, Caroline Walsh, and Wiebke Willebrandt.
Congrats again to all of our honorees!
Show MoreBarry Schneider to Teach at Carleton University
The Lifelong Learning program at Carleton University (Ottawa) has hired Barry Schneider to teach non-credit mini-courses (in person or virtual) on the depiction of mental illness in film. Barry's appointment to the adjudication committee of the Slovenian Research Council has been renewed.
Molly Byrne and Angie Johnston Publish in Animal Cognition
Molly Byrne and Angie Johnston co-authored a paper published in the journal Animal Cognition: Pet dogs (Canis familiaris) re-engage humans after joint activity
SCCN Lab Publication Featured on Journal of Neuroscience Cover
The April cover of Journal of Neuroscience features a publication by members of the Social and Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Lab: Angular Gyrus Responses Show Joint Statistical Dependence with Brain Regions Selective for Different Categories
Alyson Wong Receives DoD Fellowship
Alyson Wong, class of 2020 and current lab coordinator in Sara Cordes’ lab, has been awarded a prestigious Department of Defense graduate fellowship.
Johnny Lu Wins Poster Prize
December graduate Johnny Lu presented his honors thesis work with Jim Russell at the 25th Mind Brain Research Day, sponsored by the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and the Carney Institute for Brain Science at Brown University. His poster won the first-place award for the Diversity Research category.
Nathan Liang Receives NSF GRFP
Nathan Liang, full-time RA working with Liane Young and Gregg Sparkman, has received an NSF GRFP and will be joining Laura Niemi’s lab in the Psychology Department at Cornell as a graduate student in the fall.
Josh Hartshorne in NYT
Josh Hartshorne was featured in an op-ed by Tom Edsall in the New York Times, as was work by Liane Young and former student Laura Niemi: Do You Live in a ‘Tight’ State or a ‘Loose’ One? Turns Out It Matters Quite a Bit.
Josh Hartshorne Publishes in Language Development Research
Josh Hartshorne, former postdoc Yujing Huang, and former lab coordinator Lauren Skorb published a new paper on how children learn verbs in Language Development Research: Some puzzling findings regarding the acquisition of verbs
SCCN Lab Publishes in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Aidas Aglinskas, Emily Schwartz, and Stefano Anzellotti have published in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience: Disentangling disorder-specific variation is key for precision psychiatry in autism
Cooperation Lab Members Publish in Cognitive Development
Richard Ahl, Katherine McAuliffe, and BC alumna Kelsey Hannan have a new article in Cognitive Development, showing that online data collection methods work well with children: Tokens of virtue: Replicating incentivized measures of children’s prosocial behavior with online methods and virtual resources
Maureen Ritchey Promoted
Congratulations to Maureen Ritchey, who has been granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor!
Social and Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Lab Publishes in Journal of Neuroscience
Mengting Fang, Aidas Aglinskas, Yichen Li, and Stefano Anzellotti have a new article in Journal of Neuroscience: Angular gyrus responses show joint statistical dependence with brain regions selective for different categories
McDannald Lab Receives NIMH Grant
The McDannald lab has received a two-year NIMH grant to study a novel dopamine circuit promoting threat learning.
Karina Hamamouche and Sara Cordes Publish in Cognition
Karina Hamamouche and Sara Cordes have published a new article in Cognition: How many seconds was that? Teaching children about time does not refine their ability to track durations
Regan Bernhard Publishes in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Regan Bernhard published in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. Regan uses evidence from neuroimaging to provide support for the idea that engaging in thought without belief requires inhibiting an automatic tendency to believe everything you think: Evidence for Spinozan “Unbelieving” in the Right Inferior Prefrontal Cortex
Gregg Sparkman Named a Sloan Research Fellow
Gregg Sparkman has received a 2023 Sloan Research Fellowship. See BC News for more information on the award.
Joshua Hartshorne CAREER Award
Joshua Hartshorne was awarded a CAREER grant from the NSF titled, "How Many Intuitive Physics Systems are There, and What Do They Mean for Physics Education?"
Julia Maybury is a Gates Cambridge Scholar
Julia Maybury, who will obtain her M.A. from our department as part of the Fifth Year M.A. program, will be pursuing her Ph.D. at Cambridge University as a member of the 2023 cohort of Gates Cambridge Scholars! Here is the full announcement.
Emily Schwartz and Stefano Anzellotti Publish in Brain Sciences
In a new Brain Sciences paper, Emily Schwartz and Stefano Anzellotti show that the information in different layers of deep neural networks trained to recognize faces challenges the classical view of abstraction in face perception: Challenging the Classical View: Recognition of Identity and Expression as Integrated Processes.
Mike McDannald Joins Learning & Memory Editorial Board
Mike McDannald has joined the Editorial Board at Learning & Memory.
Gregg Sparkman Named Rising Star
The Association for Psychological Science has named Gregg Sparkman a Rising Star: "Rising Stars are in the earliest stages of their research careers post-PhD and have already advanced the field with their innovative work. Congratulations to this year’s honorees!"
Social and Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Lab Publishes
The Social and Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Lab has published in Frontiers in Neuroscience. The paper, by Stefano Anzellotti and former lab coordinators Mengting Fang and Craig Poskanzer, is titled Multivariate connectivity: A brief introduction and an open question.
Grace Hart Wins Scott Lilienfeld Memorial Prize
Frances Grace Hart, an undergraduate Psychology major, won this year's Scott Lilienfeld Memorial Prize for Scientific Thinking in Clinical Psychology for her essay in a competition sponsored by Cambridge University Press. A description of the award:
The untimely death of Professor Scott O. Lilienfeld in September of 2020 was an enormous loss for psychological science and a personal loss for Douglas Bernstein, Bethany Teachman, and Bunmi Olatunji, with whom he co-authored the 9th edition of Introduction to Clinical Psychology. Professor Lilienfeld’s contributions to the book were many, the most significant of which was to provide strong and consistent support of its focus on the need for scientific thinking about research and practice in clinical psychology.
To memorialize the important role he played in psychological science, and in the book, Professors Bernstein, Teachman, and Olatunji—in cooperation with Cambridge University Press—have established the annual Scott O. Lilienfeld Memorial Prize for Scientific Thinking in Clinical Psychology. The prize includes a certificate, a check for $500, and $250 in credit for Cambridge University Press books.
Each year’s winners will be chosen by Professor Lilienfeld’s co-authors from among students who read the 9th edition in their clinical psychology course and submitted a paper of 3 to 5 pages (double-spaced, excluding references) that is organized like the book’s Thinking Scientifically features, but focuses on a topic other than those addressed in those features. The winning paper will be the one judged as best illustrating the scientific thinking abilities that Professor Lilienfeld was so passionate about promoting.
Additional information about Professor Lilienfeld can be found in obituaries at https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/observer/obsonline/clinical-psychological-science-editor-scott-o-lilienfeld-1960-2020.html and at https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/science/scott-lilienfeld-dead.html.
Show MoreElizabeth Kensinger's Book a "Must Read"
Elizabeth Kensinger's new book, Why We Forget and How To Remember Better, written with neurologist Andrew Budson and published by Oxford University Press, has been deemed a "must read" by the Next Big Idea Club.
Preston Thakral Publishes in Cerebral Cortex
Preston Thakral has a new paper in the journal Cerebral Cortex: Transcranial magnetic stimulation to the angular gyrus modulates the temporal dynamics of the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex
Richard Ahl and Katherine McAuliffe Publish in Cognition
Richard Ahl and Katherine McAuliffe publish in Cognition: Having less means wanting more: Children hold an intuitive economic theory of diminishing marginal utility
Positive Psychology Publication by Morality Lab Members
Gordon Kraft-Todd and Liane Young publish in the Journal of Positive Psychology: Assessing and dissociating virtues from the ‘bottom up’: A case study of generosity vs. fairness.
New Paper by Morality Lab and Social and Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Lab
Minjae Kim, Liane Young, and Stefano Anzellotti publish in Social Cognition: Exploring the Representational Structure of Trait Knowledge Using Perceived Similarity Judgments.
Craig Poskanzer and Stefano Anzellotti Publish in Network Neuroscience
Craig Poskanzer and Stefano Anzellotti have a new paper in Network Neuroscience: Functional coordinates: Modeling interactions between brain regions as points in a function space.
Paul Deutchman and Katie McAuliffe Publish in Developmental Psychology
Paul Deutchman and Katie McAuliffe have a new paper in Developmental Psychology: Children use common knowledge to solve coordination problems.
Gene Heyman Publishes Papers
Gene Heyman has published two papers.
In Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior: Overconsumption as a function of how individuals make choices
In Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction: One cheer for the disease interpretation of addiction
Sandry Garcia Receives Sallie P. Asche Travel Award
Sandry Garcia received the Sallie P. Asche Travel Award for the 2023 Dallas Aging and Cognition Conference. She will present a poster titled "Testing the List Composition Effect on the Emotional Enhancement of Memory in Younger and Older Adults."
Grace Hart Finishes 3rd in Therapist Throwdown
Grace Hart won the Bronze Medal in the 2022 Therapist Throwdown, a mock-therapist competition. She is the first undergraduate student to ever win a medal.
Memory & Cognition Accepts Paper by Preston Thakral and Natasha Barberio
Preston Thakral and recent graduate Natasha Barberio have published a paper in Memory & Cognition titled "Constructive episodic retrieval processes underlying memory distortion contribute to creative thinking and everyday problem solving."
Elizabeth Kensinger WBZ Interview
WBZ interviewed Elizabeth Kensinger on memories for past storms: If the weather forecast is accurate, that storm won't be so memorable, expert says.
Aidas Aglinskas and Stefano Anzellotti Publish
Aidas Aglinskas and Stefano Anzellotti have a new paper with the National Library of Medicine: Precision psychiatry requires disentangling disorder‐specific variation: The case of ASD.
Paper Published by Neurobiology of Feeding Behavior Lab
A new paper, Sex differences in activation of extra-hypothalamic forebrain areas during hedonic eating, by current and former Petrovich lab members was published in Brain Structure and Function.
Jasmin Strickland's Publication and New Tenure-Track Position
Jasmin Strickland will start a tenure-track faculty job at Durham University in January. She has also just published in Nature Communications: Brainstem networks construct threat probability and prediction error from neuronal building blocks.
Elizabeth Kensinger Awarded NIA Grant
Elizabeth Kensinger, with Jaclyn Ford, Maureen Ritchey, Ehri Ryu, and Preston Thakral, has been awarded a five-year R01 grant from the National Institute on Aging to study how aging influences the way emotional events are remembered.
Joshua Hartshorne Awarded NSF Grant
Joshua Hartshorne was awarded a new grant from the National Science Foundation, titled "An open-course ecosystem for massive online experiments and citizen science."
Publication by Kyle Kurkela, Ehri Ryu, and Maureen Ritchey
A new paper, Integrating Region- and Network-level Contributions to Episodic Recollection Using Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling, by graduate student Kyle Kurkela and faculty members Ehri Ryu and Maureen Ritchey, has been published in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
Christianson Lab Paper is Editor's Choice
A recent article by Ph.D. students Anthony Djerdjaj and Alex Ng, postdoc Nathan Rieger, and John Christianson identifying a neural circuit for social emotional behaviors was selected as Editor’s choice in Behavioural Brain Research.
BC Grad Ufuoma C. Abiola Appointed to DEI Role at Princeton
We congratulate BC alum Ufuoma C. Abiola (Psychology major, class of 2006) on her recent appointment as the inaugural Executive Head for DEI at Princeton University Library.