By examining connections between information-seeking, learning and motivation, new study offers pointers for public-education campaigns and classrooms.
Columbia-led Team Awarded $18.3 Million from BRAIN Initiative to Research Decision-Making
New experiments probe how we make decisions
New study identifies changes in brain activity that ready the brain to receive information from the senses
Recent experiments explore how we respond to different kinds of paintings.
Recent research is revealing new, complex roles for this ancient and universal brain structure.
Columbia research combines mathematics and neuroscience; highlights surprising power of one brain area to simultaneously integrate vast amounts of information.
A Q&A with Herbert Terrace, Vincent Ferrera and Greg Jensen.
Year-long program embeds award-winning painter, jazz musician and author with scientists studying the mind, the brain and behavior.
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.
