Placebo effects are among the most important effects in medicine. They provide a window into the self-healing potential of the mind and brain, and make it challenging to isolate the effects of active treatments like drugs and devices. Please join us for a free #NIMH -sponsored

We're looking for a postdoc to join our team this fall! Reach out if you have strong computational skills and a passion for exploring the neuroscience of human communication and its variations. Job post forthcoming, but don't hesitate to email your CV if interested

Onavg: a surface template of the human cortex. In contrast to existing templates, the cortical surface is uniformly sampled, with advantages in numerous applications. Feilong Ma Guo Jiahui Ida Gobbini Haxby Lab Dartmouth 🌲 @unibo School of BBS at UTD Dartmouth Psychological and Brain Sciences nature.com/articles/s4159…

Now out Nature Communications! rdcu.be/dN6iqWith With Bogdan Petre (co-first) tor wager Naomi Friedman Martin Lindquist Marta Čeko we show with fMRI & N=392 that placebo analgesia is driven by changes in brain systems related to affective & cognitive processes, not nociceptive pain processing

The Warlow lab Dartmouth Psychological and Brain Sciences is hiring a research assistant/lab manager to help get the lab up and running, and to start some exciting neuroscience experiments. Please share widely and apply if interested! searchjobs.dartmouth.edu/postings/75088/

We've been doing some LeetCode together to help hone our coding skills. We've set up a project for going through the daily problems: github.com/ContextLab/lee… We welcome participation from "outsiders" too; instructions are at the link above if you'd like to participate! 🧑‍💻

Excited to present this work at #CCN2024! On Friday, I will give a talk (Session IV) and present a poster (C93) titled: Paradoxical replay maintains balanced and robust representations of task structure (with Matt van der Meer). Happy to chat more if you are around!

The The New Yorker features Dartmouth Psychological and Brain Sciences professor Brad Duchaine and his research on PMO, a neurological condition that makes faces look grotesque, which sheds light on the intricate way in which the human brain perceives faces. ⤵️ bit.ly/3WNfX02

Proud to have the entire FINN Lab at #CCN2024! Here's where you can catch us: First up, Katie O'Nell Katie O'Nell 🧠💻 has a talk in tomorrow morning's session (Thurs 9:30am) about a new way to quantify what makes conversation good (hint: think pink 🩷🎀💅)

Excited to share a new paper, with Maggie Harrington, Cinoo Lee & Jennifer Eberhardt! Out now in Scientific Reports: Observers of social media discussions about racial discrimination condemn denial but also adopt it. A thread nature.com/articles/s4159…

🚨Excited to announce that our Computational Psychology Preconference will be live again! #SPSP2025 🚨Data blitz submissions open on Sep 5th! We will be announcing exciting keynote speakers and panel guests soon! Mark Thornton Dr. Tessa Charlesworth William J. Brady Brent Hughes

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Very excited for this search -- please apply!!

“When you feel a connection with someone, it’s not just an emotion—your brains are actually syncing up.” The The Boston Globe features research by Dartmouth Psychological and Brain Sciences on how consensus-building conversation leads to neural alignment. ⤵️ bit.ly/4g4IS7E

New study out in PNASNews (lead: Lucy Owen)! Our brains comprise billions of tiny components interact via trillions of connections, changing at sub-ms timescales. How is it so robust to injury and noise? Paper: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… Code/data: github.com/ContextLab/pca…

truly an honor to be drawn by natalia!! thank you so much 🥰

Our colleagues in the Dartmouth 🌲 Cognitive Science Program are searching for a tenure-track assistant professor who does research at the intersection of natural and artificial intelligence. Details here: apply.interfolio.com/152809

Two new tenure-track jobs at #Dartmouth in Cognitive Science and Social Neuroscience!! And hopefully a 3rd senior TT position this year. Please help spread the word. Here's the posting for the Cog Sci position: apply.interfolio.com/152809

"The idea that your brain is actively creating pain, turning it up and down, facilitating spinal cord signaling of pain or dampening it, is really kind of a revelation over the past few decades." —Dartmouth Psychological and Brain Sciences professor Tor Wager, via Science News ⤵️ bit.ly/3Xadagu