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Princeton researchers show how the brain breaks down events
Research by Princeton University neuroscientists provides a new framework for understanding how the experience of life is accumulated, stored and recalled by the human brain.
– News at Princeton
August 2, 2017
Princeton-Intel collaboration breaks new ground in studies of the brain
Princeton researchers, in collaboration with Intel, have whittled the time it takes to extract thoughts from brain scans from days down to less than a second.
– News at Princeton
February 23, 2017
Recapping Sherlock Offers a Clue to How Memories Are Stored
When viewers recount an episode, their brains all appear to retrieve the shape of its plot from the same areas.
– The Atlantic
December 14, 2016
Your Mind Works More Like Sherlock Holmes’s Than You Think
Sherlock Holmes possesses a “mind palace”—a highly organized mental catalog of nearly every memory he’s ever had. We mere mortals can’t match Holmes’s remarkable recollection, but when we store and recall memories, our brain activity probably looks a lot like his.
– Science
December 5, 2016
Our Brains Record and Remember Things in Exactly the Same Way
You might think your memories are unique, but a study involving a Sherlock Holmes drama suggests the opposite. When people describe the episode, their brain activity patterns are almost exactly the same as each other’s, for each scene. And there’s also evidence that, when a person tells someone else about it, they implant that same activity into their brain as well.
– New Scientist
December 5, 2016
The Brain Performs Feats of Math to Make Sense of the World
Princeton University researchers show in a new study how our brains combine complicated observations from our surroundings into a simple assessment of the situation that aids our behavior and decisions.
– News at Princeton
August 29, 2016
Professor Ken Norman Receives Graduate Mentoring Award
Professor Ken Norman has been selected as one of the recipients of the 2016 Graduate Mentoring Award administered by the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning.
– Princeton University
May 6, 2016
Bold New Brain Research in Neuroengineering, Brain-Inspired Design, and Individuality
$13.1 million for 16 new awards part of NSF’s support for integrative, fundamental brain research and the BRAIN Initiative.
– National Science Foundation
August 12, 2015
The Attention Machine
Researchers at Princeton set out to build a tool that could show people what their brains are doing in real time, and signal the moments when their minds begin to wander. And they’ve largely succeeded.
– The Atlantic
February 9, 2015