A lab outing to the New Haven Escape Room (Nov 21, 2024)
Both teams from the lab made the leader board!
Yale News (June 13, 2024)
“New insights into the brain regions involved in paranoia”
In this collaborative work, we discovered that the mediodorsal thalamus plays a causal role in belief volatility, and the disruption of this region leads to erratic belief volatility commonly found in paranoia.
Yale News (May 31, 2024)
“More than meets the eye: Understanding how the brain controls social gaze”
We discovered that delivering real-time, closed-loop, microstimulation to the OFC, triggered by social gaze event, boosts social attention dynamics during real-life social gaze interaction.
An interview piece at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at UCL on our research, “Gaze and cooperative strategy: interareal interactions in the social brain”
Congratulations to Noor for being selected as a Wu Tsai Institute Undergraduate Fellow! Noor will be working on a cool collaboration project between our lab and the lab of Dr. Jane Taylor, led by both Will Li and Henry Kietman.
Congratulations to Megha for receiving the First Place Award for student posters at the 2024 SPSP Gender Preconference!
Congratulations to Weikang for receiving 2023 Best Poster Award from the Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) (Nov 3, 2023)!
Yale News (July 6, 2023)
“Cravings, queasiness, and vicarious thrills”
Contratulations to Gunagyao for being selected to attend the Methods In Neuroscience At Dartmouth (MIND) Computational Summer School (summer, 2023)!
Huge Contratulations to Siqi for receiving the James B. Grossman Dissertation Prize (Convocation prize) for an outstanding dissertation (pictured at the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Convocation Ceremony) (May 22nd, 2033)! [Departmental news]
Contratulations to Sylvia for being selected to attend the Brains, Minds, and Machines summer program at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in August! (May 17th, 2023)!
Huge congratulations to Siqi for receiving the travel award to attend and give a talk at the 2023 Japanese Society for Neuroscience Meeting in August of 2023 (May 16, 2023)!
Huge congratulations to Siqi for her successful dissertation defense! Congrats Dr. Fan (May 4, 2023)!
Congratulations to Olivia whose essay (writing about biological and psychological implications of social disconnectedness) has been selected to be “Top 100 Essays” for the St. Gallen Symposium Leaders of Tomorrow essay contest (March 17, 2023)!
Congratulations to Olivia for receiving 2022 Best Poster Award from the Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) (Dec 1, 2022)!
Congratulations to Dr. Weikang Shi for receiving the Best Dissertation Award from the Society for Neuroeconomics (SNE) from the work he has done prior to joinng the lab (thesis: Causal function and bias correlation of the orbitofrontal cortex in economics choices from the lab of Camillo Padoa-Schioppa)(Oct 4, 2022)!
Congratulations to Olivia for receiving 2022 Trainee Professional Development Award from the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) (Sep 9, 2022)!
Congratulations to Olivia for receiving a Keystone Symposia Scholarship to attend and present her research at the Keystone Symposia on Neurocircuitry of Social Behavior this summer (July 5, 2022)!
A theme issue in Philisophical Transactions Royal Society London B edited by the lab (Putnam and Chang [Eds] Interplays between oxytocin and other neuromodulators in shaping complex social behaviours) will come out in July of 2022!
Yale News (May 10, 2022)
“When eyes meet, neurons start to fire”
Dr. Weikang Shi will be joining the lab as a Wu Tsai Institute Postdoctoral Associate in June of 2022! [Yale News]
Congrats to Siqi Fan for receiving the Best Poster Award from the Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN, 2021)
Congrats to Siqi Fan and Michael Zhou for receiving 2021 Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA) from the Society for Neuroscience (Oct 14, 2021)
Our lab, together with the Nandy lab and Jadi lab, has successfully obtained a 3-yr Wu Tsai Postdoctoral Fellow slot to work on a collaborative and integrative social neuroscience project (June 4, 2021)
Our former postdoc, Dr. Olga Dal Monte, receives the 2020 SANS Innovation Award from her 2020 research paper from the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society (May 3, 2021) [news link]
Yale News (Mar 29, 2021)
“Monkeys experience the visual world the same way people do”
Yale Daily News (April 12, 2021)
“Yale study explores visual consciousness in rhesus monkeys”
Huge congratulations to Olivia Meisner for receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (March, 23, 2021)!
Huge congratulations to (now) Dr. Hannah Weinberg-Wolf!! (Feb, 4, 2021)
Our former postdoc, Dr. Olga Dal Monte, receives the 2020 Early Career Award from the Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) (Jan 14, 2021)
Our former postdoc, Dr. Olga Dal Monte, receives the 2021 Cortex Prize from the Federation of the European Societies of Neuropsychology (Nov 20, 2020)
BrainPost (Mar 3, 2020)
“Distinct patterns of cortico-limbic connectivity underlie social concern for others”
Psychology Today (Feb 24, 2020)
Yale News (Feb 24, 2020)
“Yale Study: why monkys choose to drink alone”
Yale News (Feb 24, 2020)
“Why monkeys choose to drink alone”
Congratulations to Siqi Fan for receiving the Keystone Symposia Future of Science Fund scholarship to attend and present her work at the Keystone Symposium on Neurocircuitry of Social Behavior this summer.
Congratulations to Megha Chawla for receiving a fellowship to attend and participate in the 2020 Summer Seminar in Neuroscience & Philosophy at Duke University.
Lab dinner in December (2019)
Another fun ‘Carvin’ at the Punkin Patch’ event for this Halloween! About 40 adults and kids displayed their Halloween spirit! (2019)
Congrats to Hannah Weinberg-Wolf for receiving 2019 Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA) from the Society for Neuroscience (Aug 30, 2019)
Congratulations to Dr. Jessica Joiner for her successful PhD defense! (July 8, 2019)
Jessica during her introduction to her pubic defense, and Daeyeol’s illustration of a perfect technique for opening a bottle of champagne during the post-defense party.
Yale News (June 14, 2019)
“Same brain region weighs decisions made for others as well as for self”
Congratulations to Dr. Matthew Piva! (May 20, 2019)
Matt and I at the graduate school reception after his diploma ceremony. The picture on the right also shows Dr. Stephanie Noble, a long-time friend of the lab.
Congratulations to Siq Fan for receiving a fellowship to attend the 2019 Kavli Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience (Mar 20, 2019)
Siqi will travel to Santa Barbara during the summer to attend a special workshop for computational approaches to cognitive neuroscience!
Congratulations to the lab for receiving a collaborative Kavli Innovative Research Award (Mar 17, 2019)
Team of our lab, Anirvan Nandy’s lab, and Monika Jadi’s lab has received a cool collaborative Kavli Innovative Research Award to study complex and dynamic social interactions in marmosets! (link)
Congratulations Dr. Matthew Piva, Ph.D. (Oct 25, 2018)
Matt successfully defended his PhD and received a Distinction in PhD in Neuroscience from the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Prorgam at Yale.
Congrats to Matt for receiving SfN Trainee Professional Development Award (Sep, 2018)
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Congrats to Hannah Weinberg-Wolf (Oct 7, 2018)
Hannah was recently awarded the prestigious Wurtele Fellowship from the Yale Art Gallery to enhance her extracurricular passion in teaching art to the public (Link).
Congrats to Olga for receiving Cosyne Travel Award (Jan, 2018)
NIMH Biobehavioral Research Awards for Innovative New Scientists (BRAINS) Awards Ceremony (Nov 13, 2017)
Our grant was among the ones celebrated during this ceremony (link).
Congrats to Olga for receiving SfN Trainee Professional Development Award (Sep, 2017)
Yale News (May 1, 2017)
Yale News (May 18, 2016)
Yale Scientific Magazine (Apr 5, 2016)
Slate (Mar 17, 2016) - most bizzare way to be cited…
Congrats to Olga for receiving the Presidential Travel Award for the Japanese Society for Neuroscience (Feb, 2016)
Daily Mail (Dec 16, 2015)
VICE Magazine - Motherboard (Dec 15, 2015)
Yale News (Dec 15, 2015)
Congrats to Olga for receiving the Theresa Seessel Postdoc Fellowship (Dec, 2015)
Congrats to Olga & Matt for receiving the Best Poster Award at the Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) meeting (Oct, 2015)
Congrats to Olga & Matt for receiving the Best Poster Award at the Gordon Research Conference on Amygdala (Aug, 2015)
Brain Food: Event series to showcase neuroscience at Yale (April 23, 2015)
New York Times & Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (Feb 23, 2015)
Congrats to Olga & Wes for each receiving the Postdoctoral Scholar Travel Fund from Yale (June, 2015)
Congrats to Matt for receiving the Predoctoral NSERC Fellowship (Mar, 2015)
Skeptially Speaking (Mar 1, 2013)
NBC News (Dec 28th, 2012)
Nature-Asia Highlights (Dec 24th, 2012)
Nature News (Dec 23rd, 2012)
National Geographic (Dec 23rd, 2012)
Scientific American (Dec 26th, 2012)
EurekAlert! (Dec 23rd, 2012)
Society for Neuroscience Press Room: The Social Brain (Oct. 16th, 2012)
Biological Psychiatry (July 24th, 2012)
National Geographic, Daily News (Jan 9th, 2012)
US News (HealthDay) (Jan 10th, 2012)
ScienceNews (April 7th, 2012)
EurekAlert! (AAAS) (Jan 5th, 2012)
AAAS Science Update Radio Snippet (Jan 25th, 2012)
abc News (Jan 11th, 2012)