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From Fruit Fly To Stink Eye: Searching For Anger’s Animal Root
Hear David Anderson, Director of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech, being interviewed on NPR’s “All Things Considered” about his research into whether animals experience anger like humans do. Click here to listen on NPR.org
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Autism and Theory of Mind
Researchers at Caltech have come up with a new way of testing one’s theory of mind which is defined as the ability to understand other people’s beliefs, preferences, and intentions as distinct from one’s own. Theory of mind is complex and involves multiple neural processes. The team, which just published their work in Current Biology, found that […]
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Caltech: A Bird’s Eye View
Take a bird’s eye look at the latest progress on construction site for the Chen Neuroscience Center at Caltech. The building is on track to be completed in Fall 2020. Video Credit: Dr. M. Lombardini, Aeromana.
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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 […]
