Center for Mind and Brain

Experiment led by Dr. Jack Lin, director of the UC Davis Comprehensive Epilepsy Program and a core member of the Center for Mind and Brain, a research center in the College of Letters and Science that studies how the human mind works - in particular, how we find our way. This kind of research is rare and will take a leap forward in understanding how the brain navigates us through the world from the neurons up. 

Amanda Guyer, professor in the Department of Human Ecology and a faculty researcher at the Center for Mind and Brain, is helping uncover how brain development influences the way children and adolescents respond to social and emotional challenges. She is this month’s guest on Face to Face With Chancellor May. 

Tamara Swaab, professor of psychology at UC Davis, has been elected as a foreign member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities, or KHMW, one of the highest honors bestowed on scholars in the Netherlands.

Swaab, who has served on the faculty in psychology since 1998 and is an affiliate of the Center for Mind and Brain, is widely recognized for her research on how the brain supports language comprehension and adapts to different language environments across people’s lives.