“Practice Makes Perfect: Does Social Experience in Early Life Guide Proper Brain Maturation?” Rein seeks to learn how early experiences shape the social development of our brains. Several parts of the brain are known to be involved in social function, but...
THE PROJECT: Amber Hopkins and Aaron Schurger (Chapman University) and Tian Lan (California Institute of Technology) are researching intentional binding, or how the brain perceives action and its sensory outcome as being much closer together in time. That gap between...
Subbulakshmi Sankarasubramanian (University of Cambridge), winner of BrainStorm 2018, dazzles the audience in the pitch for her research project seeking to answer the question: Can we suppress traumatic memories that cause us emotional pain? Ms. Sankarasubramanian is...
BrainStorm 2018 winner Subbulakshmi Sankarasubramanian (University of Cambridge) gives the audience an exciting update on work being done in Michael Anderson’s lab to try and suppress traumatic memories that cause emotional pain. For the 2018 Competition they...