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Psychology is the science of mind, brain, and behavior. The Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania is the oldest continuously functioning psychology department in North America.

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.

Members of the Kahana Lab have found that brain oscillations associated with successful encoding are reinstated during retrieval.

The origin of social relationships: Robert Seyfarth, Dorothy Cheney, and their colleagues have recently found that, among baboons in the Okavango Delta of Botswana, survival is greatest in the offspring of mothers who have the strongest bonds with other females.

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

News

  • David Brainard has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences

    May 3, 2023

    The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 23 international members in recognition of their distinguished...

  • Coren Apicella awarded Ira H. Abrams Memorial Award for Distinguished Teaching

    April 13, 2023

    Coren Apicella has been chosen to be given the Ira H. Abrams Memorial Award for Distinguished Teaching. This award seeks to recognize teaching...

  • Marty Seligman received 2023 Liberal and Professional Studies Award for Distinguished Teaching in Professional Graduate Programs

    April 11, 2023

    Marty Seligman has been selected as an awardee for the 2023 Liberal and Professional Studies Award for Distinguished Teaching in Professional...

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Grad Students

  • Caitlin Clements has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship

    Caitlin Clements has been awarded a US Fulbright student grant to conduct research in Sweden. She will work with Dr. Mikael Landen at the Karolinska Institute to study genetic predictors of treatment response in individuals with depression. 

     

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