Human Neuroscience Lab

Professor Gregory McCarthy

Lab News

Su Mei wins dissertation award

Congratulations to Su Mei, who is selected as the winner of the 2015 James B. Grossman Dissertation Award! The award is given annually to the author of an outstanding Ph.D. dissertation in Psychology, with preference for an author and dissertation embodying some of the characteristics of James Grossman’s scholarship, such as creativity and incorporation of other disciplines. 

Congratulations, Dr. Su Mei Lee!

Congratulations to Su Mei Lee, who recently defended her PhD dissertation on Clarifying the role of the pSTS in Social Cognitive Processing. 

JohnMark heading to Harvard for grad school

Our lab manager/research assistant JohnMark is starting the PhD program in Psychology (Cognition, Brain, and Behavior) at Harvard University this fall. He will join the vision lab to work with Yaoda Xu. Woohoo! Congratulations and good luck! 

Margret admitted to Yale MD/PhD

Our undergraduate researcher Margret Erlendsdottir will start the MD/PhD program at Yale School of Medicine after her graduation in May. Congratulations, Margret!!

Na Yeon heading to Princeton for grad school

HNL’s research assistant Na Yeon is moving to Princeton after this term to pursue her PhD in Psychology/Neuroscience. She will join Dr. Sabine Kastner’s lab to study how the brain represents high-level visual information. Congratulations and good luck! 

New paper to appear in Frontiers in Psychology

Our first-year graduate student Adam’s Hypothesis/Theory paper has been published in Frontiers in Psychology as part of a research topic on “Reward processing in motivational and affective disorders”. The title and abstract can be found below. The paper is available online!  Checkroud AM (2015) Unifying treatments for Depression: an application of the Free Energy Principle. Frontiers in Psychology.

New lab paper to appear in Cerebral Cortex

A new paper from our lab was accepted for publication in the journal Cerebral Cortex. The title and abstract can be found below.    Lee SM, McCarthy G (in press) Functional heterogeneity and convergence in the right temporoparietal junction. Cerebral Cortex.

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