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
This image depeicts a stimulus used in David Brainard's lab for studies of how object shape and material properties influence object color appearance.
The laboratory of Alan Stocker studies the effects of sequential decision making in perception. For example, the selection of a target affects the subsequent percept of the target's orientation: the perceived angle relative to the distractor orientation is larger than it actually is.
Members of the Kahana Lab have found that brain oscillations associated with successful encoding are reinstated during retrieval.