Harvard Assistant Professor of Psychology Joshua Buckholtz explains how a brain region called the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex coordinates third-party punishment decisions of the type made by judges and juries. The findings were released in a paper co-authored by Buckholtz and René Marois of Vanderbilt University.

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/10/pinpointing-punishment/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10.29.2015%20(1)

In May of this year, the creation of a new award, The Ken Nakayama Medal for Excellence in Vision Science, was announced by the Vision Sciences Society and named after Psychology Chair Ken Nakayama.

http://www.visionsciences.org/ken-nakayama-award/

This award identifies an early career psychologist who has made substantial contributions to the fields of comparative psychology and/or behavioral neuroscience, recognizing his work on mathematical modeling, reward processing and brain mechanisms.