Researchers uncover surprising limit on human imagination
Associate Professor of Psychology Tomer D. Ullman's research explores how many objects the human brain can imagine at once.
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Mounting case against notion that boys are born better at math
Elizabeth Spelke studies French testing data, finds no gender gap until instruction begins
Psychologist Mahzarin R. Banaji wins BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
Mahzarin R. Banaji, Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics in the Department of Psychology, accepted a prestigious BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Bilbao, Spain, this week.
Healing Through Music
Grant Jones incorporated love of meditation and listening to R&B, hip-hop into dissertation on mindfulness interventions
On cellular complexity and the future of biological intelligence: Q&A with Sam Gershman
What is the logic underlying human and animal intelligence? This is the motivating question behind the research of Samuel J. Gershman, a Kempner Institute associate faculty member and professor in the Department of Psychology. Gershman’s lab studies a...
Steven Pinker - The Psychology of Virtual Reality
Professor Steven Pinker on the on the psychology underlying the experience—and limitations—of VR
Psychology Professor Samuel J. Gershman wins Polymath award
Samuel J. Gershman, Professor of Psychology, was recognized for his work with single-cell organisms. Psychology Professor Samuel J. Gershman wins Polymath Award
Elika Bergelson on three key predictors of language development
Growing up amid a swirl of Russian, Hebrew, and English fed Elika Bergelson’s passion for language development. Her parents had emigrated in the 1970s from the Soviet Union to Israel, where they began their family. Bergelson and her youngest sibling were...
PhD Student Wendy Sun (Buckner Lab) on mapping the mind in the Harvard Gazette
"Sun and her colleagues leverage a method developed at the lab of Harvard Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Randy Buckner to identify and target these networks in individual subjects using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which...
Fiery Cushman named Harvard College Professor
Congratulations to our very our Fiery Cushman for being named as one of 5 Harvard College Professors out of more than 700 faculty in the FAS! Harvard College Professors receive five-year appointments to acknowledge significant contributions to...
Mina Cikara, Katie A. McLaughlin, and Mark Hatzenbuehler in The Harvard Gazette
Time and again, science finds that poverty is hard on developing brains. “Higher levels of anxiety and depression are well-established among kids growing up in families with lower income,” said Harvard psychology Professor Katie A. McLaughlin. “Over the...
