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Member Spotlight: 2026 APS Spence Awardee Yuan Chang Leong’s Pursuit to Understand the Brain
Learn more about the Spence Awardee and his research into how social context and affect construct subjective experience.
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Cut the Number of Choices You Make Each Day. Your Brain Will Thank You
Jeans that fit perfectly. The ideal Netflix show for a Tuesday night. Your one and only soulmate. Modern life promises that with enough options, you will happily find the best of everything. But behavioral scientists
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Socioeconomic Factors Are Becoming ‘Biologically Embedded’ in Children’s Brains
The most powerful factors affecting a child’s brain development involve socioeconomic opportunities, according to a study in the journal Science. The analysis of more than 2,300 9- and 10-year-olds found that environmental factors ranging from household income to
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The Midlife Habits That Could Make or Break Your Brain Health Long-Term
… Ahmad Hariri, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University, said that idea really hit home in the past year with the “overwhelmingly disappointing” results of several treatments for Alzheimer’s in older adults
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Our Brains May Be Automatically Filtering Out Negative Words
A new study offers insight into how the brain determines which information enters conscious awareness and which remains outside it.
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Member Spotlight: 2026 Spence Awardee Emily Finn on the Unique Patterns of Brain Activity
The Spence Award recipient talks about her research on individual variability in brain activity and behavior.
