CNS 2022: Day 1 Highlights

April 23, 2022

The 29th annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS 2022) kicked off in San Francisco with a terrific line-up of symposia, posters, networking events, and an exciting keynote lecture by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on understanding the adolescent brain. Check out some highlights in photos and tweets below.   Super happy […]

NAS Effort to Support Scientists Affected by War

March 17, 2022

The U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has launched the Safe Passage Fund to support the Polish Academy of Sciences as it helps fleeing Ukrainian researchers and their families resettle in Poland. This initiative builds on recent efforts undertaken by the U.S. National Academies to help evacuate and resettle a group of […]

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Mapping Social Worlds

March 15, 2022

CNS 2022: Q&A with Oriel FeldmanHall Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we have had to navigate decision-making in everchanging, new social contexts – deciding when to mask, when to cancel an event, who to include in social gathering, and more. The ability to constantly adapt decisions under changing circumstances, in part, […]

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Remembering Under Threat

February 22, 2022

CNS 2022: Q&A with Vishnu “Deepu” Murty Just as attitude can affect how someone feels when undertaking a task, so too can mindset affect what someone remembers from an experience. Think about a hike, for example. If all goes as planned, you reach the summit, making memories of the sites […]

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Using Neuroscience to Improve Justice and Outcomes for Youth

January 10, 2022

CNS 2022: Q&A with B.J. Casey Looking back on her career to date, what stands out for B.J. Casey are the tremendous strides cognitive neuroscientists have made in conducting large-scale studies that get at what is happening inside the human brain. She thinks back to early studies done with only […]

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From Social Media Use to Social Isolation: New Insights About the Adolescent Brain

December 13, 2021

CNS 2022: Q&A with Sarah-Jayne Blakemore Sarah-Jayne Blakemore studies topics that are on many people’s minds daily, especially those of us who are parents of teenagers: the adolescent brain. Working to understand the development of the brain in adolescents is a labor of love that began when she was studying […]

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Evolving Laboratory Tasks to Resolve Distraction

November 29, 2021

CNS 2022 Q&A with John Jonides Every day, we are constantly bombarded with sights, sounds, and other stimuli that threaten to distract us from specific tasks. Over the last several decades, cognitive neuroscientists have made tremendous progress in understanding the brain processes at work when people exert cognitive control to […]

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Turning to Ornithology to Understand the Neural Basis of Expertise

October 19, 2021

Hans Op de Beeck remembers as a child being intrigued by another student in his class who excelled in all subject areas but struggled with one specific task: mentally rotating drawings in 3-D for a technical drawing class.  “He just could not do it, and hardly passed the tests despite […]

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It’s the Quality Not Just the Quantity of Words That Counts in Aphasia

September 27, 2021

Aphasia resulting from stroke and brain injury creates a variety of language deficits, including a reduced ability to engage in conversations. And while researchers have investigated many aspects of this condition, little work has looked at the detailed characteristics of the words that aphasia patients are able to produce. In […]

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Investigating the Adolescent Brain Through Film Watching

August 25, 2021

Adolescence provides a unique opportunity for neuroscientists to understand an important in-between step in brain development. Straddling the worlds between adulthood and childhood, adolescents often are expected to take on more responsibility and independence, yet their brains are still not fully matured. In a new study, cognitive neuroscientists sought to investigate […]

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