Gimarie Irizarry Martinez, a UC Irvine graduate student, has been awarded the prestigious Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) Director's Excellence Award for her exceptional contributions to the Center. Martinez was recognized for her groundbreaking work establishing NeuroBridges, a transformative initiative aimed at fostering neuroscience education and opportunities between UC Irvine and Puerto Rico.

Gimarie Irizarry Martinez, a UC Irvine graduate student, has been awarded the prestigious Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) Director’s Excellence Award for her exceptional contributions to the Center. Martinez was recognized for her groundbreaking work establishing NeuroBridges, a transformative initiative aimed at fostering neuroscience education and opportunities between UC Irvine and…

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Viewing, engaging with and sharing graphic images poses a profound public health threat. The proliferation of graphic images of war or other violent acts, such as mass shootings, has become an inescapable reality, especially with the advent of social media, which can spread the horror with the click of a button.

Viewing, engaging with and sharing graphic images poses a profound public health threat. The proliferation of graphic images of war or other violent acts, such as mass shootings, has become an inescapable reality, especially with the advent of social media, which can spread the horror with the click of a button. In an invited perspective…

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The Nose Knows Where Memories Go

“Humans were once pretty good at getting on their hands and knees to track prey with their noses from scents left on the ground,” says Michael Leon, UC Irvine professor emeritus of neurobiology and behavior. “But much of our ability to do that has degraded over evolutionary time.”

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Neuroscientists and science educators gathered during the Brain Awareness Campaign Event: Understanding the Impact of Neuroscience Outreach at Neuroscience 2023 to celebrate neuroscience outreach efforts around the world. In this video, keynote event speaker Manuella Oliveira Yassa, director of outreach and education at the University of California, Irvine (UCI)’s Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory…

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When most people hear the word “vision,” they think eyes. But UCI cognitive scientist and visual perception expert Cherlyn Ng says our sight would be terrible if we relied on the eyes alone. In this latest installment of the UCI Social Sciences Experts On series, Ng shares her research on the brain’s role in crafting what we see.

When most people hear the word “vision,” they think eyes. But UCI cognitive scientist and visual perception expert Cherlyn Ng says our sight would be terrible if we relied on the eyes alone. In this latest installment of the UCI Social Sciences Experts On series, Ng shares her research on the brain’s role in crafting…

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At the credit crossroads: Modern neuroscience needs a cultural shift to adopt new authorship practices

Megan Peters, UCI associate professor of cognitive sciences writes, “Neuroscience has roots in biology and psychology, which have traditionally favored smaller collaborations, and it relies on simple heuristics, such as authorship order, to assign credit: …. With larger, collaborative and increasingly interdisciplinary efforts, the question of who really gets credit for a given scientific output becomes much more complex—and established cultural norms no longer work.”

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