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At his February installation ceremony, the chair of the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences and professor of radiology presented his lab’s recent work and discussed how people’s memories perform better when they break longer events into shorter pieces, known as segmentation. The way our brains process and organize information can tell us a lot about human development, he said, especially when it is affected by diseases. “I’m in this line of work because I’m captivated by the bare, bald facts of human experience,” Zacks said.

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have created a neural network model to understand the mechanics of how humans concentrate in complex environments. With this task, participants face three distractions from a primary task, mimicking more natural conditions for human concentration. Instead of looking at simple colored words (Stroop task), participants are required to find a target feature among complex stimuli with varying shapes, colors, borders and motion directions. People respond slower when the target is mixed with many distractors. (Image courtesy of Control and Decision Making lab)

The Post-Baccalaureate Program in Psychological Science at the University of California, Irvine is currently accepting applications for Fall 2025 admissions. Below is information about the program (including details on their upcoming information session), along with a program flyer.

Once again, we are enlisting your help in connecting students with STEM funding and opportunities – such as paid summer research, graduate fellowships, and graduate programs.

Ageism is “prevalent, invisible and hurts older people and communities,” said Nancy Morrow-Howell, the Bettie Bofinger Brown Distinguished Professor of Social Policy at the Brown School, who leads the study with center co-director Brian Carpenter, a professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences.

WASHINGTON — The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) today announced that Deanna Barch is the recipient of the 2024 Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health for her seminal contributions to advancing understanding of the developmental psychopathology and treatment of mental health disorders, in addition to her devoted mentorship of early career investigators. The award, which recognizes her achievements with a medal and $20,000, will be presented at the NAM Annual Meeting on Oct. 20. Barch is vice dean of research, Gregory B. Couch Professor of Psychiatry, and a professor of psychological and brain sciences and of radiology at Washington University in St. Louis.

Green Corps Organizer Program - The Field School for Environmental Organizing Green Corps is looking for college graduates who are ready to take on the biggest environmental challenges of our day.

Present your research in Biological Sciences or Psychology at the University of Chicago on Nov. 1-2, 2024 Midstates Consortium for Math and Science Undergraduate Research Symposium in the Biological Sciences and Psychology Application deadline: September 27, 2024

Join us for a (free and online) weekend of workshops and panel discussions designed to prepare students for the graduate admissions process, including developing a strong application, writing successful statements, and strategies for gaining research experience. You will also meet with graduate students and faculty to learn about opportunities in their labs.

A transdisciplinary team funded by TRIADS discovered an unexpected behavioral pattern when they asked humans to train an AI bot.