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Helen Hou partners with International Brain Laboratory

Caroline Cosgrove — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:00:34 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ Assistant Professor Helen Hou and her lab have been selected as one of the seven inaugural project partners of the International Brain Laboratory (IBL). Supported by the Simons Foundation, the IBL is a global collaboration of independent labs seeking to bring about a better understanding of the brain. The 22-member consortium...

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Say Cheese3D: A new model for tracking facial expression

Samuel Diamond — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:00:05 +0000

Nature Neuroscience, Kyle Daruwalla, Irene Nozal Martin, and colleagues at ��ϳԹ��Դ introduce a computer vision system called Cheese3D. As senior author Helen Hou puts it, “Cheese3D turns the face into a window into the brain.” Image: Kyra Wang" data-description="A pencil drawing of three bats in different poses, overlaid with blue perspective grid lines." />Love, pain, joy, fear, desire: the full spectrum of emotion resides in facial expression. We grasp this almost intuitively. However, we still lack a quantifiable understanding of the nuanced relationship between the face and the brain. We haven’t yet found a way to precisely measure and reliably interpret the full complexity of facial expressions in...

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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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Mind-blowing neuroscience research

Communications Department — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 11:30:19 +0000

The brain is the most complex and powerful part of the human body. When things are working as they should, we don’t notice at all. However, any number of conditions can disrupt healthy brain function. ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) neuroscientists focus on understanding how neural connections in the brain translate into behavior. Their research...

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At the Lab: Dancing with fire

Communications Department — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:30:50 +0000

It can cause blackouts, memory loss, and hallucinations. It’s typically diagnosed in people in their 20s and considered more common among women than men. It’s not schizophrenia, but it can be misdiagnosed as such. This week At the Lab, CSHL Professor Hiro Furukawa returns to speak about anti-NMDAR encephalitis, an autoimmune disease discovered less than...

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Putting out a brain on fire

Jen A. Miller — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 11:30:47 +0000

Imagine you wake up in a hospital without a single memory of the last month. Doctors say you had a series of violent episodes and paranoid delusions. You’d become convinced you were suffering from bipolar disorder. Then, after a special test, a neurologist diagnoses you with a rare autoimmune disease called anti-NMDAR encephalitis. This is...

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At the Lab Season 1 Research Rewind: Neuroscience

Communications Department — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 11:30:25 +0000

Trying to remember that one thing that one CSHL scientist said about the brain that one time? Jog your memory and catch up on what you might have missed in our latest Research Rewind. This week At the Lab, you’ll hear all about our innovative neuroscience research from CSHL scientists Arkarup Banerjee, Benjamin Cowley, Hiro...

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This protein does “The Twist”

Luis Sandoval — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 15:00:56 +0000

Proteins are constantly performing a kind of dance. They move and contort their bodies to fulfill specific functions inside our bodies. The NMDAR protein executes an especially hard dance routine in our brains. One wrong step can lead to a range of neurological disorders. NMDAR binds to the neurotransmitter, glutamate, and another compound, glycine. These...

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Can AI learn like us?

Luis Sandoval — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 11:30:19 +0000

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. AI-generated image: © kura - stock.adobe.com" data-description="" />It reads. It talks. It collates mountains of data and recommends business decisions. Today’s artificial intelligence might seem more human than ever. However, AI still has several critical shortcomings. ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) NeuroAI Scholar Kyle Daruwalla explains: “As impressive as ChatGPT and all these current AI technologies are, in terms of interacting with...

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At the Lab Episode 9: Musical mice

Communications Department — Tue, 28 May 2024 11:30:20 +0000

Imagine walking along a busy city sidewalk. How do you know when to change pace with the crowd? Now think about striking up a conversation. How can you tell when to speak faster or slower? CSHL Assistant Professor Arkarup Banerjee seeks to answer these questions with the help of an animal called Alston’s singing mouse.

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Alien language: CSHL returns to Cinema Arts Centre

Samuel Diamond — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 11:30:15 +0000

Arrival, accompanied by a discussion with CSHL neuroscientist Arkarup Banerjee. This is CSHL’s second event at the Cinema in as many years. In 2023, CSHL’s Anthony Zador and Kyle Daruwalla spoke about AI at a sold-out screening of Her. Image: Sony Pictures" data-description="" />What if an alien spaceship were to touch down in your front yard tomorrow? How would you communicate with your unexpected guests? How would anyone for that matter? Now, consider the prospect that any unintended miscommunication might result in interstellar war. Questions like these form the premise of 2016 sci-fi blockbuster Arrival, starring Amy Adams...

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How a mouse’s brain bends time

Luis Sandoval — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 10:00:43 +0000

Life has a challenging tempo. Sometimes, it moves faster or slower than we’d like. Nevertheless, we adapt. We pick up the rhythm of conversations. We keep pace with the crowd walking a city sidewalk. ��ϳԹ��Դ Assistant Professor Arkarup Banerjee explains: “There are many instances where we have to do the same action...

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The sound of music … by mice

Communications Department — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 12:30:19 +0000

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Cocktails & Chromosomes: The mysterious songs of mice

Communications Department — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 12:30:43 +0000

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Singing mice will teach us about our own conversations

Sara Roncero-Menendez — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 13:30:37 +0000

Arkarup Banerjee joins ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) in November 2020 as an assistant professor, working in the field of neuroscience. He studies how the brain processes sensory information to produce motor outputs enabling vocal communication. He focuses on the Alston’s singing mouse, a species of mouse with the interesting behavior of calling back and...

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Tatiana Engel named 2020 Sloan Fellow

Sara Roncero-Menendez — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 15:00:28 +0000

Assistant Professor Tatiana Engel was named a 2020 Sloan Fellow. Engel is being honored for her work in the field of neuroscience. Her lab focuses on developing computational models of how populations of neurons in the brain give rise to cognition and how this neural activity is coordinated across different regions of the brain. “I’m...

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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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Discussing your brain, the computing machine, with Tatiana Engel – A Cocktails and Chromosomes talk

Communications Department — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 14:48:32 +0000

Our brains are doing math all the time—math that makes it possible for us to see a movie, make coffee, or even to know who we are. But what does all that really mean?

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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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