Neuroscientist Aryn Gittis, an associate professor of biological sciences in the Mellon College of Science and member of the Carnegie Mellon Neuroscience Institute and the CNBC, has been awarded a grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation to advance her re... read more
Former CNBC and CMU graduate student, Matthew Botvinick (2001) will be giving a talk on Thursday titled, “A distributional code for value in dopamine-based reinforcement learning”. Since leaving Princeton University where he was a professor of psychol... read more
Caroline Runyan, an assistant Professor in Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh and a member of the CNBC, has been awarded an NIH Director’s New Innovator Award. According to the NIH, the award ” supports unusually innovative research from ear... read more
Using sensors in helmets and MRI scans of college football players, Carnegie Mellon University Psychology and CNBC faculty member Brad Mahon and researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center have found that routine hits to the head sustained d... read more
Rob Kass, Maurice Falk Professor in the Department of Statistics (CMU) and former interim co-director of the CNBC recently gave a lecture on “Uncertainty, Information and Narrative” to the English Department at CMU. Kass notes: Like many other human e... read more
Automated, robotic training device developed by Carnegie Mellon undergraduate student advances neuroscience research. We’ve all heard the saying that individuals learn at their own pace. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed an automa... read more
Renowned auditory neuroscientist Barbara Shinn-Cunningham has been named the 2019 recipient of the Helmholtz Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal in Psychological and Physiological Acoustics and Speech Communication “for understanding the cogniti... read more
Speech is a highly variable signal. For example, acoustics of the same word spoken by different speakers are highly distinct; nevertheless, listeners can easily recognize the sounds to carry the same linguistic message. Human listeners and even infants ov... read more
CNBC CMU faculty members Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, Lori Holt and Eric Yttri received grants from a gift to the Mellon College of Science from the DSF Charitable Foundation. Next-generation High-density Digital Neural Interfaces Based on Scalable CMOS Tech... read more
The Dynamics of the Unconscious Brain Under General Anesthesia General anesthesia is a neurophysiological state in which a patient is rendered unconscious, insensitive to pain, amnestic and immobile, while being maintained physiologically stable. General ... read more