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Inspired by the movie Hidden Figures, PepsiCo and 21st Century Fox partnered to find the next generation of women who will lead the way in STEM.Read more about PhD student Christine Liu awarded $10,000 in Search for Hidden Figures contest

The Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute invites proposals for the inaugural Radical Ideas in Brain Science Challenge.Read more about Announcing the Radical Ideas in Brain Science Challenge

Got a lousy night’s sleep? Feeling kinda grouchy? Turns out waking up on the wrong…Read more about People Are Strange When You’re Sleep Deprived

Study led by Neuroscience PhD student Chris Holdgraf. HWNI members Frédéric Theunissen and Robert Knight are co-authors.Read more about Pop-outs: How the brain extracts meaning from noise

Research from the Whitney lab.Read more about It takes less than a second to tell humans from androids

Thank you for your donations to Berkeley Neuroscience yesterday! UC Berkeley’s Big Give provides a…Read more about Big Thanks for your support

The following is part of the Neuroscientist Portrait Project, a look at the lives of neuroscientists…Read more about Neuroscientist Portrait Project: Malak El-Quessny

Opinion piece by HWNI member Daniela Kaufer, published in the San Francisco Chronicle.Read more about Remember after election: Stress can be good for you

A guardian can give the go-ahead, and despite some critiques of the practice, it can be…Read more about When Patients Can’t Give Informed Consent to Be Research Subjects

Berkeley postdoc Zachary Irving is a co-author on the study.Read more about Does your mind jump around, stay on task or get stuck?

Anna Jafarpour from UC Berkeley is a co-author on the study.Read more about This mental quirk could explain why you’re always running late

Includes projects led by HWNI members Jose Carmena, David Feinberg, and Marla Feller.Read more about UC scientists awarded more than $9 million from federal BRAIN Initiative

The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) has awarded Michael Yartsev, assistant professor in the…Read more about $1.5 million to study language development, via bats

HWNI members Michael Yartsev and Stephen Brohawn have won NIH New Innovator awards.Read more about Four UC Berkeley scientists receive prestigious NIH awards

Helen Bateup, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology at UC Berkeley, was awarded a NARSAD Young Investigator…Read more about Helen Bateup awarded NARSAD Young Investigator Grant for autism research

HWNI members Jose Carmena, David Feinberg, and Marla Feller will receive funding for their projects.Read more about Four projects garner $1.7 million from federal BRAIN initiative

Congratulations to HWNI members Stephen Brohawn, Evan Miller, and Michael Yartsev!Read more about Three Berkeley Neuroscience Faculty Awarded Klingenstein-Simons Fellowships

Listen to an interview with HWNI member Jack Gallant on Freakonomics Radio.Read more about This Is Your Brain on Podcasts

HWNI member Kristopher Bouchard is an author on the paper.Read more about Brain Modulyzer Provides Interactive Window Into the Brain

HWNI member David Schaffer is a collaborator on the project.Read more about New Tool Will Help Expand Scope of Neural Circuit Research

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The NIH Director's New Innovator Award supports exceptionally creative new investigators who propose highly innovative projects that have the potential for unusually high impact.Read more about Stephen Brohawn and Michael Yartsev receive NIH Director's New Innovator Awards

Interview with Tom Griffiths, Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science.Read more about Marriage as ‘Optimal Stopping Problem’ and Other Algorithms to Live By

The game, called Stall Catchers, was developed by the Human Computation Institute, in collaboration with UC Berkeley and other institutions.Read more about New online game invites public to help fight Alzheimer’s