collage of research images from the cmb
Director's Mangun and Guyer

Co-directors George (Ron) Mangun and Amanda Guyer welcome you to the Center for Mind and Brain

A volunteer fitted with electrodes that record tiny electrical signals from facial muscles during speech.

Restoring Voices and Identity with Neuroengineering

  • by Douglas Fox

Lee Miller vividly recalls the day in 2021 when he met a woman who had lost the function of her vocal cords. In hoarse, whispering tones she explained how her voice had been instrumental to her vocation. Losing it, she said, undercut her life’s purpose. Her words were faint, but the lesson was powerful.

2024 Child Fund Seed Grant Recipients

  • by Jasmine Martinez-Loftis

The CMB is pleased to award two new research initiatives supported by seed grants from the Child Family Fund!  One award goes to CMB Professor Lee Miller for his work "Precise Localization of Epilepsy using Noninvasive EEG" and another to CMB Professors Katie Graf-Estes and Lisa Oakes for their work "The dynamics of parent-infant shared book reading".

Professor Steven Luck teaching at the front of his classroom.

Psychologist of ‘Attention’ Receives UC Davis Teaching Prize

  • by Alex Russell, College of Letters and Science

How the brain remembers has a lot to do with focus. It’s in this area of cognitive science that Steven Luck, professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis, has built a career pushing the frontiers of both science and teaching.