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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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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