Tianqiao & Chrissy Chen Institute – Change perception, change your world | Chen Institute

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

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