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In the garden, butterflies flutter all around and in all directions. The task is to catch them with a virtual net, but only the blue ones. The red ones are a distraction. Sometimes they end up in the net by accident.

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.

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.

Pioneer in Cognitive Neuroscience Receives Major Award for Education in Neuroscience

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.

To view the article go to this link: https://lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/news-noteworthy/letters-and-science-faculty-fulbright-scholars-build-global-research-community

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.

Fri, Jan 12, 2024 @ 4:00pm at Jackson Hall

Link to Event and Tickets: Renée Fleming’s Music and Mind (mondaviarts.org)

Panelists: Renée Fleming, Deb Bakerjian, Lee Miller, Heidi Moss Erickson

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

On February 24, 2023, the Center of Mind and Brain, along with the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute hosted Out of the Lab and Into the World: The Next Chapter of Contemplative Science. Videos are now available