Dr. Jarrod Lewis-Peacock recently published articles in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and in Cerebral Cortex. The paper appearing in PNAS is entitled “Pruning of memories by context-based prediction error”.  This work reveals the discovery of an active mechanism for forgetting that weakens memories selectively. Specifically, the work shows that the brain automatically generates […]

Dr. Laura Colgin was honored with a 2014 College of Natural Sciences Teaching Excellence Award in Neuroscience.  This award recognizes excellent teaching performance by outstanding faculty who have had a positive influence on the educational experience of our students.  It is awarded by the Dean to increase awareness of excellent teachers and to promote quality teaching in […]

Dr. Laura Colgin received a Young Investigator Program Award from the Office of Naval Research.  This program is one of the oldest and most selective research advancement awards in the country.   Its purpose is to fund early-career academic researchers whose scientific pursuits show exceptional promise for supporting the Department of Defense, while also promoting their […]

Dr. Ila Fiete and her graduate student, John Widloski, recently had a research paper accepted into Neuron entitled “A model of grid cell development based on spatial exploration and spike time-dependent plasticity”.  This work presents a biologically plausible model for the formation of grid cell networks.

The Colgin lab recently published a paper in the journal Neuron entitled “Neurons in the Brain Tune into Different Frequencies for Different Spatial Memory Tasks”.  This research suggests that your brain transmits information about your current location and memories of past locations over the same neural pathways using different frequencies of a rhythmic electrical activity […]

The Poldrack lab recently published a research article in Nature entitled “Changing value through cued approach: an automatic mechanism of behavior change”.  This work suggests that people’s preferences can be changed without directly manipulating the items they are choosing between (meaning without the addition of any new incentives, extra information, or increased familiarity for the newly preferred […]

Dr. Michael Drew received a 2014 Faculty Service Award from the Natural Sciences Council, given in recognition of exemplary teaching and service to the students in the College of Natural Sciences.

The Aldrich lab recently published 2 papers in The Journal of General Physiology and one in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Brent Halling is first author on a paper published in the Journal of General Physiology entitled “Calcium-dependent stoichiometries of the KCa2.2 (SK) intracellular domain/calmodulin complex in solution”.  SK calcium-activated potassium channels […]

Dr. Michael Drew received a 5-year R01 award from the National Institute of Mental Health to support his research project entitled “The role of adult hippocampal neurogenesis in memory”.

Dr. Marie Monfils was interviewed about her research on fear memories on recent episode of the Brain Matters podcast.  Listen at http://podbay.fm/show/730239508/e/1382328000?autostart=1