Title: Reward Processing in the Social Brain From winning a raffle to receiving praise from a colleague, the experience of reward elicits positive emotions, shapes our behavior and influences our emotional well-being. Central to processing rewards is the role of the striatum -…

Title: Cognitive neuroscience of learning and memory in human infants Faculty Host: Nicole Rust URL for more information: https://ntblab.yale.edu/

Title: Language experience drives language understanding Abstract: The language environment is critical for language learning and vocabulary growth in children and in predicting the difficulty of processing words and sentences in adults. However, psycholinguists have…

Title: "Memory consolidation during sleep and implications for mental health". Faculty Host: Anna Schapiro URL for more information: https://www.ibp.ucla.edu/faculty/gina-poe/

Title: The role of empathy in morality: A force that can bind or blind us Abstract: Empathy can be a strong motivation for moral behavior, but its influence can also have the opposite effect. People who are concerned for the well-being of others are more likely to help, care for…