Decision Making
December 15, 2020
How Does Uncertainty Hijack Our Attention?
New study identifies changes in brain activity that ready the brain to receive information from the senses
Decision Making
September 16, 2020
What Happens When We Look at Art?
Recent experiments explore how we respond to different kinds of paintings.
Decision Making
June 15, 2020
What is the Cerebellum?
Recent research is revealing new, complex roles for this ancient and universal brain structure.
Decision Making
February 26, 2020
How Does the Brain Put Decisions into Context?
Columbia research combines mathematics and neuroscience; highlights surprising power of one brain area to simultaneously integrate vast amounts of information.
Decision Making
February 14, 2020
How the Brain Makes Decisions Without Language
A Q&A with Herbert Terrace, Vincent Ferrera and Greg Jensen.
The Senses
February 4, 2020
Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute Announces Three Artists-in-Residence
Year-long program embeds award-winning painter, jazz musician and author with scientists studying the mind, the brain and behavior.
The Senses
January 2, 2020
Artist Sarah Sze on Working With Neuroscientists
Sarah Sze, a 2003 Macarthur Fellow and a professor in the visual arts program at the School of the Arts, spent 2019 as the Alan Kanzer Artist-in-Residence at the Zuckerman Institute.
The Senses
November 18, 2019
Inside the Jazz Lab with Helen Sung, Jazz Artist-in-Residence
Award-winning pianist completes a year-long residency at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute with a debut of original compositions inspired by brain science.
Disease
October 21, 2019
Rui Costa Elected to the National Academy of Medicine
Academy recognizes Dr. Costa’s outstanding contributions to the brain science of movement and learning that has yielded insights into Parkinson’s disease, autism and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Decision Making
October 14, 2019
Curious Minds: How Do We Make Everyday Decisions?
Hot coffee or cold brew? Pizza or pasta for dinner? These are the decisions that guide our every day lives. What computations do our brains make when weighing these choices?
