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Professor of Music Elizabeth Margulis combines research in neuroscience, psychology and music to explore the science behind imagination and creativity. Continue Reading →
Discovery: Research at Princeton
Findings, feature articles, books and awards from Princeton University researchers
Professor of Music Elizabeth Margulis combines research in neuroscience, psychology and music to explore the science behind imagination and creativity. Continue Reading →
Faced with climate change, a pandemic, and political unrest around the globe, it can feel all too easy to succumb to a sense of hopelessness. How do some people bounce back from adversity faster than Continue Reading →
Christabel Mclain, Class of 2021, explored whether cells in the brain’s reward centers that respond to early life stress can be reactivated by stress in adulthood, contributing to depression. Continue Reading →
A new technology can automatically track animals’ body parts in video to measure the behavior of animals. Continue Reading →
Researchers studied the courtship behaviors of fruit flies to gain insight into how the brain creates “internal states” which culminate from mood, past experiences and other variables. Continue Reading →
By Liz Fuller-Wright With the help of a quarter-million video game players, Princeton researchers created and shared detailed maps of more than 1,000 neurons — and they’re just getting started. By playing Eyewire, an online Continue Reading →
By Yasemin Saplakoglu When history professor Julian Zelizer and neuroscientist Sam Wang started the podcast Politics and Polls prior to last year’s presidential election, they never dreamed it would still be going a year later. Continue Reading →
David Tank, the Henry L. Hillman Professor in Molecular Biology and co-director of the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, has been named one of four winners of the Brain Prize, an honor that recognizes scientists who have Continue Reading →
Four professors received the 2013 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their research careers. Associate Continue Reading →
AS AN UNDERGRADUATE, Angelina Sylvain was fascinated to learn that devastating declines in cognition and muscle coordination could be caused by changes in a single gene — the cause of Huntington’s disease. She was intrigued Continue Reading →
Princeton neuroscientists are poised to play a leading role in revolutionizing our understanding of the human brain as outlined in President Barack Obama’s BRAIN Initiative, announced in April 2013. David Tank, co-director of the Princeton Continue Reading →
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