There is a disconnect, suggests Indiana University Professor Tom James, between what we think happens when we make a decision and what happens in the brain during that process.
“Why did I eat that?” The answer lies in a feast of thought-provoking research with a lineage in PBS.
PBS graduate students presented their posters on December 8, 2025 at the IU McCalla School’s exhibition space on campus.
PBS outreach and the annual Girls Inc Sciencefest
In the quest to make inroads into Alzheimer’s, PBS Professor Simon Davis studies both healthy and pathological aging.
Recognizing the career and influence of PBS Professor Aina Puce.
Wei Tang’s studies of how the brain detects and interprets statistical patterns have
implications for understanding mental health.
Recognizing the career and influence of PBS Professor Jeffrey Alberts.
Learn about the recent achievements of our wonderful PBS faculty, staff, students, and alumni.
In a new study Indiana University researchers observed episodic memory in rats to a degree never documented before, suggesting that rats can serve as a model for complex cognitive processes often considered exclusively human. Unlike semantic memory, which involves isolated facts, episodic memory involves replaying events in the order and context in which they occurred.
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