Video: Devanshi Trivedi ’22, neuroscience, philosophy, and ‘what makes us who we are’

Thursday, May 26, 2022 4:35 pm

Trivedi has wanted to study the brain ever since a childhood friend told her that our eyes see the world upside down, but our brains flip everything right side up.

Bates in the News: April 24, 2020

Friday, April 24, 2020 10:13 am

It's good Bates in the News: On April 17, Jack Allard ’16 left a Philadelphia hospital after a highly publicized weeks-long battle with COVID-19.

Bates in the News: Sept. 20, 2019

Friday, September 20, 2019 9:44 am

An alum helps Colin Kapernick guest-edit a magazine, and Olive Kitteridge returns to Elizabeth Strout ’77.

We are piloting the experiment for these students thesis experiments. They were piloting Hannahs experiment. Shes interested in looking at the extent to which visual masking actually inhibits perception. So when you take a visual mask, you take an image followed by another image, youre impaired at understanding the first image. The question is why. So what were going to do is take the neural activity that were measuring. And the nice thing about EEG is that it measures millisecond by millisecond electrical potentials that are generated in the brain , we measure them from the scalp. And we can see over time what the brain is processing and we use machine learning, we put these signals into a computer system tha t reads out the extent to which there is information about what the picture is. Were wondering, does that information persist when you change the image? Does that persist over time? Hannahs made the experiment, and we are going to try it out to make sure everythings ready for participants.? Michelle Greene, assistant professor of neuroscience, says of three thesis students in neuroscience: Theyre all terrific, I might add.Hanna De Bruyn 18, Old Lyme, Conn. (black striped sweater with glasses)Katherine Katie Hartnett 18 of St. Paul, Minn. (wearing EEG cap with Bates sweatshirt)Julie Self 18 of Redwood City, Calif. (blue plaid shirt)Email from Hanna: Katie Harnett and I will be testing out our computational neuroscience theses and will be hooking each other up to the EEG tomorrow, Friday, at 12:45-2:30ish in the Bates Computational Vision Lab (Hathorn 108).

Bates announces $3.97 million National Science Foundation grant for visual database project

Friday, August 16, 2019 11:02 am

The largest-ever federal grant awarded to Bates, the award will fuel creation of a vast video gallery to support research in various fields, including artificial intelligence.

How do we know what we’re seeing? A Bates professor finds out

Thursday, October 4, 2018 1:17 pm

Michelle Greene and a colleague created a mathematical model of how our brains process the world around us.

Research using EEG machines comes to Bates

Thursday, April 12, 2018 11:40 am

Sarah Rothmann '19 becomes one of the many Bates students who participate in their classmates' scientific studies.

A place of ‘freedom and support’: Bates welcomes new tenure-track faculty

Thursday, September 21, 2017 9:01 am

Meet the new tenure-track faculty for 2017–18 at Bates College.

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