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A Piece of the Puzzles
Caroline Charpentier is a Caltech postdoc working with TCCI®-affiliated faculty member, John O’Doherty. By combining behavioral measures of observational learning with brain imaging, Charpentier is developing computational models (alogorithms) that will help us understand different types of human social behaviors such as interpreting the actions of others, decision-making or resolving uncertainties. Read more on […]
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TCCI® at Caltech Turns Two
Two years ago, we worked with Caltech to create the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience, where research spans a continuum, from deciphering the basic biology of the brain to understanding sensation, perception, cognition, and human behavior. Read some fun facts on the Caltech website
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Nature: How the brain’s face code might unlock the mysteries of perception
Doris Tsao mastered facial recognition in the brain. Now she’s looking to determine the neural code for everything we see. Read more in Nature
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2018 TCCI Holiday Newsletter
Happy Holidays! As we enter into the festive season, we are happy to share some recent TCCI news with you.
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“Minds Wide Open” wins Gold Standard Award
Public Affairs Asia recently awarded “Minds Wide Open” the “Gold Standard Award for Broadcast and Video” in Hong Kong. These awards recognize excellence across a variety of communication categories. Read more about the awards
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How the Brain Learns from Mistakes
Researchers have identified the individual neurons that may underlie our brain’s ability to monitor our behavior, catch and correct the mistakes we make. This work provides rare recordings of individual neurons located deep within the human brain and has implications for psychiatric diseases like obsessive-compulsive disorder. The work was a collaboration between the laboratories […]
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Cracking Open a Cold One with Fruit Flies
While researching the underpinnings of how insect brains process decision-making, Caltech researcher Floris Van Breugel upended former scientific consensus that fruit flies avoid CO2. Van Breugel works in Michael Dickinson’s Lab at Caltech. Dickinson is an affiliated faculty member of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech. Read more on Caltech’s website
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Helping the Blind to Navigate
To provide navigational help for the blind, Caltech researchers have combined augmented reality hardware and computer vision algorithms to create a portable headset that translates the optical world into plain English audio. The work was done in the laboratory of Markus Meister (Ph.D. ’87) who is an affiliated faculty member of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute […]
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Professor Ying Mao wins 2018 “Wu Jieping Medical Innovation Award”
Nov, 20, China, This year’s “Wu Jieping Medical Innovation Award” was awarded to Professor Ying Mao, director of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute of Brain Disease in Shanghai, and Vice-President of Huashan Hospital, along with five other professors. Jieping Wu is a famous medical scientist, medical educator, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, […]
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Picking Fights with Fruit Flies
Caltech researchers have identified a small cluster of neurons in the male Drosophilia fruit fly brain that governs “threat displays,” the aggressive behaviors which are seen in countless organisms preceding conflict. Their work provides a starting point that may lead to greater understanding of threatening behaviors and aggression in humans. Read more on Caltech’s […]