Stories about "Neuroscience"
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 professors’ humorous movie-trailer videos brighten the move to remote learning

Friday, March 27, 2020 9:34 am

As Bates faculty pivot to online teaching, making "trailers" offers fun and catharsis.

“We are piloting the experiment for these students’ thesis experiments. They were piloting Hannah’s experiment. She’s 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, you’re impaired at understanding the first image. The question is why. So what we’re going to do is take the neural activity that we’re 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. We’re wondering, does that information persist when you change the image? Does that persist over time? Hannah’s made the experiment, and we are going to try it out to make sure everything’s ready for participants.”? Michelle Greene, assistant professor of neuroscience, says of three thesis students in neuroscience: “They’re 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.

Brains and how we study them: Views from the Kelsey Professor of Neuroscience

Thursday, November 1, 2018 1:12 pm

Listen to Nancy Koven for a minute, and you’ll understand why Bates’ approach to teaching neuroscience is distinctive.

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.

Cheer the Chairs: Nancy Koven appointed to new Kelsey Professorship

Thursday, May 24, 2018 5:26 pm

The new professorship honors "one of the most transformative professors to ever teach at Bates," says Nancy Koven.

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.

Treatment for the horrors of PTSD could be near, thanks to landmark research by Edward Meloni ’91

Friday, April 6, 2018 10:43 am

The day might soon come when breathing xenon gas from a hand-held inhaler could treat the mental affliction known as post-traumatic stress disorder.

Video: Alex Gogliettino ’17 learns to think like a scientist

Thursday, May 18, 2017 6:07 pm

In our latest "Voices From the Class of 2017," Alex Gogliettino '17 talks about the close relationship with his Bates faculty mentors.

Q&A: Neuroscience major Alex Gogliettino ’17 explores ‘what makes us who we are’

Friday, March 3, 2017 11:49 am

Sarah Rothmann '19 asks Gogliettino, an honors candidate, about the implications of his brain research and hints for up-and-coming thesis students.

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