Millions of people are administered general anesthesia each year in the United States alone, but it’s not always easy to tell whether they are actually unconscious. A small proportion of those patients regain some awareness …
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Researchers wake monkeys by stimulating ‘engine’ of consciousness in brain
A small amount of electricity delivered at a specific frequency to a particular point in the brain will snap a monkey out of even deep anesthesia, pointing to a circuit of brain activity key to …
Resilience doesn’t equate to positive outcomes for individuals who have experienced early childhood maltreatment
Early childhood maltreatment can have long lasting effects that follow a person into adulthood. Although the majority of kids who experience maltreatment do not go on to develop depression, a study by James Li, PhD, associate …
Saalmann receives grants to advance research in the emergence of consciousness and predictive coding
Congratulations to Yuri Saalmann on two multimillion-dollar awards to advance two different tracks of his research: one in the emergence of consciousness and the other in predictive coding. The National Science Foundation Growing Convergence Research …
Saffran’s Infant Learning Lab featured on Netflix docuseries ‘Babies’
The Infant Learning Lab, led by Professor Jenny Saffran, is featured in the Netflix docuseries, Babies, out today. In the fourth episode, First Words, Saffran discusses how babies figure out where words begin and end …
Schloss Lab Receives NSF grant to understand visual reasoning
Led by Assistant Professor of Psychology Karen Schloss, the Schloss Visual Reasoning Lab investigates how people make conceptual inferences from visual information, and how those inferences influence judgments about the world. Now, armed with a …
Schloss recognized with Departmental Teaching Award
The Department of Psychology is pleased to recognize Associate Professor Karen Schloss with this year’s Departmental Teaching Award. Schloss’s contributions in her courses, Information Visualization (Psych 711/601) and Psychology of Perception (Psych 406), have had …
Schloss shares color communication research on WPR
Visual Reasoning Lab director and associate professor of psychology Karen Schloss spoke with Wisconsin Public Radio about how we interpret different things from different colors and how color helps us communicate. Tune in here. …
Scientific American: Discrimination Persists in Society—but Who Discriminates?
Americans are becoming more tolerant of people of different races, ethnicities and sexual orientations, recent research indicates. Yet discrimination toward people in marginalized groups persists at disturbingly high levels. Scientists have proposed two hypotheses to explain this apparent …
Secret Smiles: What cues do we lose when a smile’s hidden beneath a mask?
Professor of psychology Paula Niedenthal would be among the first to tell you that a smile is never just a smile. Couple wearing face masks with smiles printed on them. (Photo: Filip Bunkens/Unsplash) While many …