Neurobargining – Ex Ed brain circuits in action?
 
Alexandra Hilbert QC 13 and Jim Stellar
 
We have been reading this 9/19/10 on-line paper with the title “Neural signatures of strategic types in a two-person bargaining game.” The paper aims to get at what the authors call “The management and manipulation of our own social image in the [...]

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Social Neuroeconomics – Over bidding         
 
Raphael Spiro QC 12 and Jim Stellar
 
Raph has been reading a bit of the literature on neuroecomomics, something we have written about before in this blog.  We’d like to propose that the same brain areas that are involved in making decisions about purchases made with money are also be involved [...]

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Bird Brains: A model for Expanding the Human Mind in College?
 
Shoshana Korman QC’12 and Jim Stellar
 
Shoshana works in the laboratory of Dr. Carolyn Pytte who comes out of the bird song neuroscience tradition.  Shoshana and I agreed to write this blog with two intertwined themes: Neuroscience of brain plasticity and her own experiences being an [...]

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What is the Angular Gyrus?
Paulina Kulesza QC ’11 and Jim Stellar
Paulina is a Communication Disorders Student who participates in a small ongoing seminar with me and some folks that tries to look at what are some of the brain structures that might underlie learning from experience.  We see this effort as being like the new [...]

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Pygmalion on Co-op
 
Jessica Olson NU’12 and Jim Stellar
 
I met Jessica as a freshman while I was giving a guest lecture in a Psychology 1 class at Northeastern University.  She was pointed out to me by the instructor as someone special and interested in undergraduate research.  Jess started working almost immediately as an undergraduate student in [...]

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Facial emotion and the brain – insights from the clinic to Ex. Ed.
 
Vanessa Castro UMD ‘11 and Jim Stellar
 
Vanessa was a student at Northeastern and an advisee of mine outside my field (I was on her undergraduate thesis committee).  We wrote a blog post together out of that thesis, and now we are back with [...]

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Riding high on horse-human communication
 
Susan Salk and Jim Stellar
 
Susan is a professional writer and we became friends at our previous jobs.  Recently, we began talking about the blog and how interesting it is that animals and humans seem to be able to communicate well. People think you are talking about dogs when you say that, [...]

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Math, Molecules, and Woman
 
Rimma Pivovarov NU ’10 and Jim Stellar
 
I first met Rimma when she was a prospective student interested in mathematics and I was Dean of the College at Northeastern University.  Now she is about to graduate and has developed a second interest in biology.  She is seeking admission to graduate school in a [...]

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A brief note about a timely article
by Jim Stellar
I just had to break the co-author format and write this note calling your attention to the 10/4/09 New York Times Sunday Magazine article about the anxious mind that largely features the work of Professor Jerry Kagan from Harvard.  Here is the link. I urge you to [...]

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Here is another post that comes out of Jim’s conversations with Northeastern students.  It is touching on social media, something Shwen writes about in his blog, Med 2.0.
 
-Jim and Shwen
 

 
 
Social Media, Warmth, and “Other Lobe: activity
 
Jim Stellar and Ashley Stempel‘10
 
When we are not talking about how cooperative education experiences in industry have affected the [...]

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