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Worldwide collaboration, brain-wide technology

Samuel Diamond — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 11:30:59 +0000

What if we could map how behaviors play out across the entire brain at the level of single cells? What if, using that data, we could measure how prior knowledge affects decision-making? As featured on CNN, two new studies from the International Brain Laboratory (IBL) suggest it’s no longer a question of “if” but “when.”...

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Anne Churchland donates $50K prize to CSHL student

Nick Wurm — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 11:30:49 +0000

“I would not have become the scientist I am today were it not for my time at Cold Spring Harbor,” says Anne Churchland. The pioneering neuroscientist has received the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) 2025 Pradel Research Award. Now at the University of California, Los Angeles, Churchland credits her time at ��ϳԹ��Դ...

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The difference between an expert’s brain and a novice’s

Charlotte Hu — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 16:00:01 +0000

When mice learn to do a new task, their brain activities change over time as they advance from ‘novice’ to ‘expert.’ The changes are reflected in the wiring of cell circuits and activities of neurons. Using a two-photon imaging microscope and a wealth of genetic tools, researchers from ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL), Columbia University,...

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Mice, like humans, fidget when deep in thought

Charlotte Hu — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 15:00:53 +0000

Almost everyone fidgets, said ��ϳԹ��Դ Associate Professor Anne Churchland. She referred to a collage of videos she compiled of different people rocking back and forth in their chairs, clicking a pen, shaking their legs. “This is a collection of uninstructed movements,” she explained. “These are all people who were thinking and talking,...

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Of mice and model organisms

Charlotte Hu — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 19:59:05 +0000

Each day, Rachel Rubino makes her rounds around the animal facilities at ��ϳԹ��Դ to make sure all the lab animals are healthy and well-kept. She’ll look in on experiments and chat with researchers to ensure everyone on the team has the necessary training for work they need to do. Rubino, the attending...

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Watson School 2019 Ph.D.s

Communications Department — Sun, 19 May 2019 21:30:47 +0000

The hallmark of the graduate school at ��ϳԹ��Դ is its innovative approach to advanced education in the biological sciences. Students who complete their degrees at the Watson School of Biological Sciences graduate as experimentalists and scholars who can pursue many and diverse careers. This May, seven students were awarded Ph.D. degrees. Here,...

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From many mice, unexpected genius

Communications Department — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 18:09:18 +0000

An unusually large study of mouse behavior has revealed that some individual animals are far more clever than any scientist only studying a small group might realize. The results are a new perspective on behavior and valuable insight about the decision-making process.

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From many mice, unexpected genius

Brian Stallard — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 20:25:56 +0000

Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Is bigger really better? When it comes to sample sizes in experiments to understand decision-making, a ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) team found that testing more subjects in more trials is not only better, but necessary, to truly grasp what an individual is thinking. A horde of mice and half-a-million...

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Being a scientist means being part of a team

Communications Department — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 14:42:02 +0000

Written by Jerinna Solages, Senior at Amityville Memorial High School and Partners for the Future program participant. An avid writer, she penned her first novel, Hinder, before graduating middle school. was sitting in my 6th-period AP Physics class and the buzzing of my phone briefly removed me from what was happening around me. As I...

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Portrait of a Neuroscience Powerhouse

Peter Tarr — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 16:07:30 +0000

At noon every Tuesday from September through June, scenes from a revolution in neuroscience are playing out at ��ϳԹ��Դ. Week after week, over 100 scientists cram themselves into a ground-floor meeting room in the Beckman Laboratory. It’s standing-room only as everyone in the Neuroscience Program settles in to hear details of the...

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Dr. Anne Churchland honored with Marshall Award for promoting women in science

Andrea Alfano — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 15:03:35 +0000

In recognition of her efforts to promote and mentor women in neuroscience, Associate Professor Anne Churchland was honored with The Louise Hanson Marshall Special Recognition Award at the Society for Neuroscience’s 2017 Annual Meeting in November. Each year, the award goes to “an individual who has significantly promoted the professional development of women in neuroscience...

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New leadership roles in BRAIN Initiative and International Brain Lab reflect CSHL’s excellence in neuroscience

Peter Tarr — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 16:30:33 +0000

Cold Spring Harbor, NY — The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) yesterday announced multiple grant awards totaling $50 million per year for five years to fund cutting-edge research on the brain. The project, part of the BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network (BICCN) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), establishes a Center and a...

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Do neuroscientists need to switch gears to understand how brains make choices?

Communications Department — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 14:17:43 +0000

Last month, the announcement of International Brain Laboratory (IBL) made headlines because of its unusual approach to a fundamental mystery of neuroscience: what happens in the brain when it makes a decision? Associate Professor Anne Churchland, who co-founded the IBL along with Professor Tony Zador, explains how it could help solve a problem in neuroscience....

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Imaging hundreds of neurons using ultrafast lasers hints at how brains make decisions

Andrea Alfano — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 20:40:03 +0000

ith the flick of a switch, neuroscientist Matt Kaufman can send out billions of extremely brief laser pulses that will help him understand how brains make decisions. Every time you decide to grab a coffee mug, your brain quickly performs an elaborate string of calculations: it visually recognizes the mug, chooses how you will grip...

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If you thought all neuroscientists work with neurons, you’re wrong

Andrea Alfano — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 20:53:21 +0000

Neuroscientists who work with real neurons will swap ideas with those who work solely on mathematics at this year’s Cosyne conference. Follow #theoryMatters on Twitter for videos of them explaining why they need to work together. n early February, the scientific community and beyond was bubbling with excitement over the first-ever detection of gravitational waves. Yet...

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Swartz Centers dedication

Jill Stone — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 22:23:34 +0000

An official recognition of Jerome Swartz for his 25+ years of friendship and generous support of ��ϳԹ��Դ neuroscience programs was held on Wednesday, April 1 with the dedication of the Swartz Centers for Theoretical Neuroscience and Neural Mechanisms of Cognition. Jerry, co-founder and former CEO of Symbol Technologies was the 1999 recipient...

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When thinking about numbers, people estimate a range rather than a single value

Communications Department — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 14:54:39 +0000

Representing numbers as a range of possible values allows people to utilize multiple streams of information, leading to improved decisions Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Whether estimating the number of children on a playground or the number of books on a shelf, humans rely on an innate number sense. While areas of the brain have...

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Making decisions with fourth-year student Kachi Odoemene

Communications Department — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 18:58:04 +0000

Getting funding for basic biomedical research in the US is not easy. Government budget cuts to the NIH and NSF over the past several years have hurt science. The scarcity of grant support for an expanding number of trainees creates a scary situation for researchers looking to establish their own labs. Even in graduate school, some...

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Some neurons can multitask, raising questions about the importance of specialization

Communications Department — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 11:00:04 +0000

New findings challenge assumptions about how information is encoded in the brain Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Think about all the things you are doing at this moment. As your eyes scan across the lines of this article, maybe your brain is processing the smell of coffee brewing down the hall and the sound of...

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13th Women’s Partnership for Science raises over $200,000 for disease research at ��ϳԹ��Դ

Communications Department — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 16:17:46 +0000

Cold Spring Harbor, NY — On September 14, ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) held the 13th annual Women’s Partnership for Science luncheon, a summer staple among New York’s female philanthropists who support biomedical research. Since 2002, the event has raised $1.3 million for pioneering research on the genetic causes of cancer and neuropsychiatric disorders as well as...

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Anne Churchland Archives | ���ϳԹ���Դ

Worldwide collaboration, brain-wide technology

Anne Churchland donates $50K prize to CSHL student

The difference between an expert’s brain and a novice’s

Mice, like humans, fidget when deep in thought

Of mice and model organisms

Watson School 2019 Ph.D.s

From many mice, unexpected genius

From many mice, unexpected genius

Being a scientist means being part of a team

Portrait of a Neuroscience Powerhouse

Dr. Anne Churchland honored with Marshall Award for promoting women in science

New leadership roles in BRAIN Initiative and International Brain Lab reflect CSHL’s excellence in neuroscience

Do neuroscientists need to switch gears to understand how brains make choices?

Imaging hundreds of neurons using ultrafast lasers hints at how brains make decisions

If you thought all neuroscientists work with neurons, you’re wrong

Swartz Centers dedication

When thinking about numbers, people estimate a range rather than a single value

Making decisions with fourth-year student Kachi Odoemene

Some neurons can multitask, raising questions about the importance of specialization

13th Women’s Partnership for Science raises over $200,000 for disease research at ���ϳԹ���Դ

Anne Churchland Archives | ��ϳԹ��Դ

13th Women’s Partnership for Science raises over $200,000 for disease research at ��ϳԹ��Դ