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".
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.
The University of California, Davis, is awarding over $480,000 to help scientists advance compelling research and innovations toward commercial applications through the Science Translation and Innovative Research (STAIR™) proof-of-concept grant program. The program plays an important role in helping campus innovators bridge the early-stage hurdle of access to funding during one of the most challenging phases in new technology development.
Everyone ruminates about the bad things that happen to them. Whether it’s a nasty breakup, an embarrassing failure or simply when someone is mean, it can be hard to stop thinking about what happened and why. For people who ruminate too much, this negative thought pattern can cause lasting problems with mental health.
The parents of Karim Najm, who for the past two and a half years was a distinguished undergraduate researcher in the CMB in the Miller Lab, have established a student research award in his name. Contributions can be made via the link in the page below. Karim Majdi Abou Najm Memorial Undergraduate Student Research Award
Funded by a three-year $900,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, Distinguished Professor George R. Mangun, director of the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain, is launching a project to better understand the cognitive mechanisms behind realistic voluntary attention, or attention directed by an individual’s free will. The project will be conducted in collaboration with engineering colleagues at the University of Florida.
On February 24, 2023, the Center of Mind and Brain, along with the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institutehosted
Out of the Lab and Into the World: The Next Chapter of Contemplative Science.Videos are now available
