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Prof. Anup Malani, Professor at the University of Chicago Law School and Medical School.
June 20, 2021

Global policies for the pandemic and India Covid Second Wave. Prof. Anup Malani who is a Professor at the University of Chicago Law School and Medical School. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Senior Fellow at

Prof. K. Scott Wong, Professor of History at Williams College
June 18, 2021

American immigration and citizenship, Chinatown: Conflicting images and Contested terrain, and the 1903 Boston Chinatown raid. Prof. K. Scott Wong is Professor of History at Williams College where he teaches a variety of courses on Asian American history,

Prof. Ione Fine, Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington.
June 16, 2021

Blindness and Human Brain Plasticity Prof. Ione Fine is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington. Her lab studies the mechanisms of plasticity in the human brain by linking changes in function to changes in neuroanatomical structure, with

Prof. Douglas Natelson, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University.
June 14, 2021

Condensed matter’s image problem, Electron pairing in the pseudogap state revealed by shot noise in copper oxide junctions, and Thermoelectric response from grain boundaries and lattice distortions in crystalline gold devices Prof. Douglas Natelson is pro

Prof. Jesse Prinz, Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York.
June 12, 2021

Biology, Culture, Emotion, Psychiatry, Ontology, Social construction, and Artificial Intelligence Prof. Jesse Prinz is Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York. He works primarily in the philosophy of psychology and ethics and has author

Prof. Shreya Saxena, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida
June 10, 2021

Towards the neural population doctrine, Performance Limitations in Sensorimotor Control: Trade-Offs Between Neural Computation and Accuracy in Tracking Fast Movements, and Motor cortex activity across movement speeds is predicted by network-level strategi

Prof. Alison Barth, Professor in Life Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University
June 08, 2021

Progressive Circuit Changes during Learning and Disease Prof. Alison Barth is Professor in Life Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research is focused on understanding how experience assembles and alters the properties of neural circuits in the c

Prof. Shelly Flagel, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan
June 06, 2021

A selective role for dopamine in stimulus–reward learning, Mapping sign-tracking and goal-tracking onto human behaviors, and The paraventricular thalamus is a critical mediator of top-down control of cue motivated behavior in rats. Prof. Shelly Flagel is

Prof. Petra Schmid, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at ETH Zurich
June 04, 2021

Power Effects on Cognitive Control: Turning Conflict into Action, Power effects on implicit prejudice and stereotyping: The role of intergroup face processing, Power Effects on Instrumental Learning: Evidence From the Brain and Behavior, Less Power, Great

Prof. Henry Yin, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University
June 02, 2021

Restoring Purpose in Behavior and Achieving natural behavior in a robot using neurally inspired hierarchical control. Prof. Henry Yin is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. His lab studies neural mechanisms underlying goal-directe