Charles T. Snowdon, Hilldale Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, died Jan. 8 at UW Hospital in Madison at age 81. A phenomenal scientist, dedicated teacher and leader in comparative psychology and …
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Researchers find a better way to measure consciousness
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 …
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 …
Rethinking rewards: Motivating long-term behavior change beyond financial incentives
For decades, people have been paid to lose weight, attend school, go to the gym, avoid teenage pregnancy, and even protect forests. These programs rely on financial incentives—money—to motivate behavior change, and they often deliver …
Rogers named recipient of Jeffrey L. Elman Prize for Scientific Achievement and Community Building
Tim Rogers, Professor of Psychology and Faculty Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, has been named the recipient of the 6th Jeffrey L. Elman Prize for Scientific Achievement and Community Building. The award recognizes …
Rogers receives competitive Research Forward award
A project led by Professor Tim Rogers has been chosen from 101 initial applications for one of nine Research Forward awards. Research Forward, a competition sponsored by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research …
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 featured on WPR’s Larry Meiller Show
Colors convey meaning, influence behavior and make us experience emotions. To explain why this is, Larry Meiller of WPR’s The Larry Meiller Show talks with Karen Schloss, associate professor of cognition in UW-Madison’s Department of …