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Neuroscience

Student Research

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Over the last decade, ÈËÆÞÓÕ»ó students have pursued dozens of fascinating neuroscience projects and published papers in leading journals in the field.

. ÈËÆÞÓÕ»ó researchers explore the brain's ability to process data acquired through the auditory channel and use it to recognize two-dimensional shapes. Prof. Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez, Prof. Michael Pitts, Chris Graulty ’15, Orestis Papaioannou ’15, Phoebe Bauer ’15. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. April 2018.

Cocaine, ghrelin and the mesolimbic system. Prof. Paul Currie, Lia Zallar ’16, Eliotte Garling ’18, Leah Cepko ’16. (2017) In V.R. Preedy (ed.), , Academic Press: London, (pp. 279-286).

. Orestis Papaioannou ’15, Chris Graulty ’15, and Phoebe Bauer ’15 probe the brain’s ability to extract visual information from the auditory channel.

. Melissa Lewis ’13 was one of 270 authors of a groundbreaking study on reproducibility published in Science.

. Prof. Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez, Loretta K. Yiu ’13, and Elizabeth T. Nguyen ’12 published this research in the Journal of Memory and Language.

. Prof Suzy C. P. Renn, Julia B. Carleton ’09, H. Magee ’09, My Linh T. Nguyen ’09 and Ameara C. W. Tanner. Integrative and Comparative Biology.

. Lavinia Tan, Frank Sosa ’13, Eric Talbot ’12, Donald Berg ’12, Dawniris Eversz ’12, and Prof. Timothy D. Hackenberg. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.

. Juliet Shafto ’13 and Prof. Michael Pitts. Journal of Neuroscience.

. Will Horner ’15, Amanuel Tafessu ’14, Audrey Williams ’14, Terra Vleeshouwer-Neumann ’13, McKenzie Givens ’17, Prof. Kara Cerveny, and other researchers. Development.

. Emily Merfeld ’16, Lily Ben-Avi ’16, Mason Kennon ’16, and Prof. Kara Cerveny. In WIREs Developmental Biology.

. Catherine John ’10 and Prof. Paul Currie. Behavioural Brain Research.

. Leah Cepko ’16, Joaquin Selva ’15, Emily Merfeld ’16, Anna Fimmel ’14, Sana Goldberg ’12, and Prof. Paul Currie. Neuropharmacology.