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...
Just what IS going on in the teen brain? Join Abigail Baird, PhD (Vassar) as she shares how the neurological growth spurt of adolescence dictates how we learn to consolidate, generalize and then (at light speed) make use of our experiences to navigate our every day...
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...
Ken Paller, PhD (Northwestern University) pitches his lab’s pioneering work seeking to answer the question: Can we establish real-time, two-way communication with lucid dreamers? Paller and fellow investigator Karen Konkoly are based in Paller’s Cognitive Neuroscience...
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...
