In December 2021, the Society of Behavioral Endocrinology announced that Cate Peña had been awarded the prestigious Frank A. Beach Early Career Award. She shares the award with Aubrey Kelly of Emory University. 

PNI faculty members Ken Norman and Uri Hasson were featured in a recent New Yorker article entitled "The Science of Mind Reading". Please take a look.

Christos Suriano, a postdoctoral researcher in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute (PNI), was awarded a prestigious TL1 fellowship from the New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science (NJ ACTS).

Princeton Neuroscience Institute is continuing to prove that it harbors a nurturing environment for the academic careers of its postdoctoral fellows on their route to independence and becoming principal investigators, charting the future of neuroscience in the United States and abroad.

Amitai Shenhav, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, & Psychological Sciences at Brown University, has won the Society for Neuroeconomics Early Career Award and the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Young Investigator Award.

The Princeton Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University invites applications at the Assistant Professor level (tenure track), in two areas: i) theoretical neuroscience; ii) human cognitive neuroscience.  In addition to other outstanding neuroscience resources at Princeton, a 248,000 square foot building…

Imagine you’re following directions to drive to a friend’s house: At the 3rd traffic light, take a right. To do this, you must keep in mind two pieces of information: your ongoing physical location — to ensure that you stay on the correct side of the road for example — and the number of traffic lights you’ve seen. How does your brain simultaneously organize and combine these two important signals for guiding your behavior?

Dr. Annegret Falkner, an assistant professor at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, has just been awarded the prestigious Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship in Neuroscience. The Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship aims to support high-risk, high-reward research by early career neuroscientists, funding both basic neuroscience research as well as clinical research tied to the diagnosis and/or treatment of neurological and behavioral disorders.

MICrONS, short for Machine Intelligence from Cortical Networks, is a cross-institutional project that has generated a publicly available dataset encompassing the morphology of over 200,000 cells and over 500 million synapses from a 1 cubic millimeter piece of mouse visual cortex (along with a smaller, proof-of-principle dataset). The data was collected over five years using electron microscopy to resolve the fine details of cells and their connections.

Why can humans sometimes effortlessly perform multiple tasks simultaneously and sometimes not? For example, when sharing a meal with a friend you can eat, talk, listen, and even breathe all at the same time. However, if you were to try to write down your grocery list for the week while simultaneously performing complex mental arithmetic you would likely find it too challenging.

Each year the Princeton Neuroscience Institute awards rising seniors funding to complete their senior thesis projects. The Institute has received several generous donations to fund these undergraduate research awards. Neuroscience research award funding is used to purchase research materials and supplies, conference travel, and research-related travel. 

On June 3rd, 2021, Schmidt Futures and the Rhodes Trust named Sebastian Musslick to its 2021 cohort of Schmidt Science Fellows. Sebastian, a graduate student in Jonathan Cohen’s lab, will receive up to two years of post-doctoral support to pursue innovative interdisciplinary research. One of the requirements to receive the award is for fellows to work in a significantly different discipline than their PhD field.