Psychology
Harvey Grill and lab members have shown that leptin, a hormone made in fat, acts on the same neurons in the brain that respond to signals arising from food in the stomach. Immunohistochemical images of **green** pSTAT leptin responsive cells, **red** c-Fos stomach distention responsive cells and yellow neurons responsive to both signals
By analyzing participants' eye movements to task-relevant display as they follow spoken instructions to manipulate one of the pictured objects on the display, research in Delphine Dahan's lab examines speech comprehension in real time.
People differ in the degree to which they will choose larger, delayed rewards over smaller, immediate ones. Joe Kable and colleagues have found that activity in specific parts of the brain, striatum and medial prefrontal cortex, reflects the subjective value that particular person places on future rewards.
This image depeicts a stimulus used in David Brainard's lab for studies of how object shape and material properties influence object color appearance.