CNBC colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh, Helen Schwerdt, Peter Strick, Bill Stauffer, and Rob Turner are featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered” discussing the latest in Parkinson’s Disease research. Read or listen to A brain circuit tied to emotion may lead to better treatments for Parkinson’s disease on NPR.
Pitt Faculty featured on NPR
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Klatzky Elected into National Academy of Sciences
Roberta Klatzky, the Charles J. Queenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. She is an expert in cognition whose research examines the relationships between human perception and action, with a focus on touch.
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Experts Study Marine Mammals To Learn About Human Hearing
Many hearing loss patients have the same complaint: They have trouble following conversations in a noisy space. Carnegie Mellon University’s Barbara Shinn-Cunningham has spent her career conducting research to better understand this problem and how it affects people at cocktail parties, coffee shops and grocery stores.
Now, along with a team of researchers from six universities, Shinn-Cunningham, the director of CMU’s Neuroscience Institute (NI) and the George A. and Helen Dunham Cowan Professor of Auditory Neuroscience, is looking for answers in an unexpected place. The researchers will conduct noninvasive experiments on free-swimming dolphins and sea lions.
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Pier and Beer Alike to the Ear
Graduate student studies link between speech perception and speech production
When visiting a different city or country, travelers may find themselves slipping into the local accent. Timothy Murphy wants to find out why.
Researchers have been studying this phenomenon — phonetic convergence — for years. But Murphy, a graduate student studying psychology in Carnegie Mellon University’s Holt Lab, said there is currently no explanation for why an American may sound a little British after a vacation across the pond.
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New Leaders for a Strong Community: Holt and Fiez to lead a reimagined neuroscience partnership
Two neuroscience powerhouses, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, have a long-standing partnership in the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC), a 28-year-old neuroscience research and education program. After a yearlong reimagining process, the universities have announced that Lori Holt of CMU and Julie Fiez of Pitt are the new leaders of what they call “the world’s most exciting and neighborly playground for pioneering research and training in the neural basis of cognition.”
The center leverages CMU’s strong cognitive and computational neuroscience programs with Pitt’s basic and clinical neuroscience expertise. It provides a way for students and faculty to connect formally and informally, including graduate training, undergraduate research opportunities and collaboration clusters, which encourage joint publications and grant submissions from the two universities.
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Pittsburgh Project Paves Way for Revolutionizing Treatment of Fatal Brain Diseases
A collaborative group of neuroscientists from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine received a $6.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative to create an ultra-high-resolution molecular atlas of the brain and develop brain cell type-specific strategies for effective and precise gene delivery.
The research will leverage genetic information resolved with single-cell precision to establish a comprehensive database of cell types and neural circuits in the brain’s cognitive and reward systems. In combination with ultra-high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the researchers intend to build brain atlases of marmosets and macaque monkeys and make them freely available to other neuroscientists across the world. Read more…
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Geraldine Dietz Fox Young Investigator Award
ARO is proud to announce the 2023 Geraldine Dietz Fox Young Investigator Award recipient, Dr. Michele Insanally!
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Insanally!
Dr. Insanally is being awarded for excellent work in improving our understanding of the neural basis of auditory perception, learning and plasticity.
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Kass Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Robert E. Kass, the Maurice Falk Professor of Statistics and Computational Neuroscience at Carnegie Mellon University, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Kass joined CMU’s Department of Statistics & Data Science in 1981 and served as department head from 1995 to 2004. He also holds faculty appointments at the Neuroscience Institute and in the Department of Machine Learning. From 2015 to 2018, he served as interim co-director of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC), a joint effort of CMU and the University of Pittsburgh, and on the CMU side, a precursor to the Neuroscience Institute.
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Smith Named Co-Director of CMU-Pitt Neuroscience Partnership
Matthew A. Smith, a professor of biomedical engineering and Carnegie Mellon University’s Neuroscience Institute, has been named co-director of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC), a long-standing research and education partnership between CMU and the University of Pittsburgh.
The center links faculty and students from the two universities through graduate training, undergraduate research opportunities, and joint publications and grant submissions.
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We’re Hiring!
Carnegie Mellon University: Psychology & Neuroscience
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) seeks highly qualified applicants for two tenure-track positions. One position is solely within the Department of Psychology, while the second is split between the Neuroscience Institute and Psychology. Appointments will be considered at ranks from assistant to associate professor (including tenured associate). Applicants may apply here.
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