Coming Together
Former students of Professor Emeritus Ken Heller returned to PBS on June 7 for a special reunion.
News Archive 2023-2024
Synapses "R" Us
PBS study explores cannabis’ effect on nerve cell communication.
PBS in Paris
PBS graduate student receives Fulbright to study psychotic experiences in French African migrants.
Coming Together
Former students of Professor Emeritus Ken Heller returned to PBS on June 7 for a special reunion.
New findings decipher building blocks of infant and AI vision
What do infants see? What do they look at? The answers to these questions are very different for the youngest babies than they are for older infants, children and adults.
2024 PBS undergraduate student award recipients
Congratulations to all of the recipients of this year's PBS undergraduate student awards!
In the news
Read about the other ways our faculty, staff, and students have been making recent headlines by clicking here.
Cognition in the classroom
PBS Lecturer Öykü Üner’s teaching and research highlight acts of cognition in students’ daily lives
Phi Beta Kappa electees for Fall 2024
We are proud to announce that 33 students within the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa, which is the oldest and most prestigious academic honor society in the country!
A welcome return
A profile of PBS Assistant Professor Alexandra Moussa-Tooks
Science by way of conspiracy
In a landscape of conspiracies students gain hands-on training in the scientific study of human behavior.
In the news
Read about the other ways our faculty, staff, and students have been making recent headlines by clicking here.
Phi Beta Kappa electees for Fall 2023
We are proud to announce that 33 students within the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa, which is the oldest and most prestigious academic honor society in the country!
Reflections on 11 years as PBS department chair
The accomplishments of former PBS chair Bill Hetrick are multifarious and promise to have a lasting impact on the department.
Figures of Speech: Through computational modeling Professor Bonnie Nozari illuminates the invisible systems of language production
Professor Nozari is building a large multilingual database of human speech error detection and repair with support from a recent National Science Foundation grant.
1, 2, 3, and Counting: Professor Liz Gunderson looks at children’s many paths to numbers
Gunderson comes to IU as a full professor under the F100 initiative through which the university plans to hire 100 new faculty from a set of core research areas, among them Precision Developmental Science.
Loaded Decisions: PBS Professor Tim Pleskac bridges the divide between human and artificial intelligence to understand human decision making
After several other academic positions in the U.S. and abroad, Pleskac returns to Bloomington, one of three new PBS faculty hired under the “Faculty 100” initiative to “amplify IU’s success in core research areas,” among them, the topic of “human and artificial intelligence.”
Neuroimaging study reinforces theory of mental ‘foraging,’ inspiring new approaches to understanding schizophrenia and other disorders
The study inspires new approaches to understanding schizophrenia and other disorders.
Busemeyer bash
On May 20, former students of PBS Distinguished Professor Jerome Busemeyer organized a full day of talks and tributes to celebrate his career.
In the news
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"A new era in biological psychiatry"
Neuroscientist Adam Kepecs delivers 2023 Hearst Memorial Lecture.
"The journey to post-20s wisdom"
On May 5, PBS watched with pride as graduating senior Gayatri Thiru delivered the student speech at the 2023 undergraduate commencement ceremony.
PBS club life
Volunteering, connecting to others with shared interests, participating in projects, and building an organization sustainable for future students – representatives of PBS clubs discuss what PBS club life is about.
Museum dialogues
PBS Professor Aina Puce’s course, “Art and the Brain,” ignites conversations between two disciplines
Ramsden's retirement marks the start of a new chapter
PBS Senior Scientist, Ben Ramsden, retires after 14 years in the department.
2023 PBS graduate student award recipients
Congratulations to all of the recipients of this year's PBS graduate student awards!
2023 PBS undergraduate student award recipients
Congratulations to all of the recipients of this year's PBS undergraduate student awards!
An IU first
IU psychology and political science major, Logan Williams, a rising senior in the IU College of Arts and Sciences, is the first-ever IU student to receive this prestigious award from Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Beta Kappa electees for Spring 2023
We are proud to announce that 19 students within the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa, which is the oldest and most prestigious academic honor society in the country!
Accelerating equity in Indiana courtrooms
IU legal scholar, social psychologist’s works recognized by Schmidt Futures Innovation Fellowship Program to advance equity in Indiana courtrooms.
2022 Audrey Newcomb & David Garraghty Staff Recognition Award
PBS alum and IT Technical Support Group Manager, Roger Rhodes (BA ’74), wins the 2022 Audrey Newcomb & David Garraghty Staff Recognition Award.
In the news
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How do we make decisions?
Using the extraordinary tools of cognitive science and math, Ruth N. Halls Professor Jennifer Trueblood peers inside the decision-making process to find out.
Natasha Chaku and the drama of adolescent development
As director of the interACT Lab on adolescent development, newly arrived PBS assistant professor Natasha Chaku focuses on expanding the scope of PBS developmental research in the process.
Two new faculty take clinical psych to the next level
Emma Schiestl and Natasha Hansen are new faculty members at PBS who are deeply committed to ensuring students receive an education in evidence-based treatment no matter what occupations they pursue, whether it is a master’s in social work or counseling or a Ph.D. in clinical psychology or tech jobs in behavioral health at the bachelor’s level.
Student Spotlights
Read the Q&A's we had with a PBS undergraduate and graduate student!
Race and Facial Perception: A $500,000 NSF grant supports a PBS project to “de-bias” facial perceptions
By measuring the way racism informs facial perception, a new study seeks to expose – in ourselves and our algorithms – racist judgments at the level of facial perception.
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