Rogers and Mudar said the primary research aims are to understand challenges adults with cognitive disability deal with every day, and to identify existing and emerging technology that can help. Three segments of the population are part of the study group: Adults 60 and older with mild cognitive impairment, cognitive impairments due to stroke and those who have sustained a traumatic brain injury.
Science on the InsideHow neuroscience graduate students are bringing science education to youth behind bars
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Llano Recieves Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Hauber "Cowbird" LabThe Hauber lab (@cowbirdlab/Twitter) focuses on the evolution of recognition systems in avian brood parasites. It shifts between behavioral, developmental, physiological, and molecular tools.
Caught with the Cookie Jar"Slug City" studies the neural basis of decision with sea slugs and octopuses. The research aim is to study how animals organize their behavior by integrating motivation, experience and sensation.
Pulling Apart the BrainThe Interactive 3D brain model from BrainFacts.org.
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- A team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign found that honey bees can remember positive and negative experiences—such as taking care of their young or fending off an enemy. These memories are then stored in specific areas of their brains, according to how good or bad the experience was. Scientists have long known that vertebrates—animals with tail bones—like ourselves are capable of storing memories of pleasure and pain in distinct brain areas such as this. However, this has never been documented before in the minds of bees. "We wanted to know whether bees, with a tiny brain, devote different parts of it to processing social information that is either negative or positive," Gene Robinson, an author of the study from Urbana-Champaign's Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, told Newsweek.
- The Juvenile Detention Center Outreach program, conceived by neuroscience student Ian Traniello, has been running for five years. To date, roughly a dozen neuroscience students have participated, most of whom had never taught behind bars. Now, the JDC outreach team has been on several local panels discussing their outreach work, presented posters at the annual Society for Neuroscience Meeting, and had their work highlighted in Science.
- According to bee expert and University of Illinois professor Gene E. Robinson, urban environments like Chicago are actually great for bees. There are often less pesticides and a wider variety of flowering plants and trees to feed on.
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Faculty Spotlight
How would you describe your background? (I.E. where you are from? How did you first get interested in your area of research? Etc.) I was born in Hungary, and I always wanted to be an ornithologist. I never wanted to be anything else, so when I got the chance to come to the US to study at university I continued focusing on birds and I’ve been doing that ever since. The neuroscience aspect came during my Ph.D. when I was a neurobiology and behavior Ph.D. student at Cornell, and I started becoming interested in how the brain of the birds that I study differ from the brain of other birds. We study birds that are non-parental. We study parasites that don’t engage in parental care at all and that distinguishes them from 99% of bird species that are parental.
Alumni Spotlight
What field in Neuroscience did you study? What about the research process did you enjoy? Did you prefer gathering the data, brainstorming its meaning, the writing process, defending your research, presenting your research, etc. My thesis research focused on neuroendocrine modulators of memory. I appreciated that all aspects of the research process were important, but I most enjoyed seeing the data come together to tell a story that built on the literature and offered new insights.
