BBB in the News

A. Students

Monkey Business: Senior Rachel Gittelman spends a summer in the field exploring the parental habits of Argentinean owl monkeys http://www.alumniconnections.com/links/link.cgi?l=1890470&h=10000253&e=UPN-20110127173328

Benjamin Laitman researches the microarchitecture of sleep with fear conditioning: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/home/SASFrontiers/laitman.html

Rebecca Sternschein researched the neural pathways involved in the perception of art: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/home/SASFrontiers/sternschein.html

Lauren Rosenberg worked in the laboratory of Dr. Thompson-Schill on the neural correlates of visual and verbal cognitive styles: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/home/SASFrontiers/thompson-schill.html

B. Faculty

Why Sleepyheads Forget: a ScienceNOW article about sleep deprivation by BBB Director Ted Abel http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/1021/1

The Social Lives of Baboons; How Baboons Think (Yes, Think) about BBB professors Dr. Robert Seyfarth and Dr. Dorothy Cheney, featured in the New York Times
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9903EFDB113AF93AA35753C1
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The Mind's Eye: Decoding early vision's circuitry with Merriam Term Associate Professor of Physics Vijay Balasubramanian
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/home/SASFrontiers/the-minds-eye.html