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Congrats to postdoc Stacee Santos and professor Sara Cordes on their paper "The Impact of Perceptual Diversity in Numerical Discrimination" being accepted to the Journal of Child Psychology!

Congrats to Trystan Lousteau and coauthors Helen Fong and Liane Young on their paper "Social identity complexity mitigates outgroup derogation in moral judgment" being accepted for publication in JESP!

The paper Relationship-Based Motives for Helping: Are They Seen as Selfish or Selfless? by PhD candidate Trystan Lousteau has been accepted for publication by the journal Social Cognition.

Activation patterns in male and female forebrain areas during habituation to food and context novelty - Brain Structure and Function Novelty has significant effects on feeding behavior. New foods and unfamiliar environments suppress consumption, and adaptation to novelty is fundamental to survival. Yet, little is known about habitu...

Zoe Irving, former graduate student Eliza Greiner, & research assistants Mark Indriolo and Zhe Liu have published a paper in Brain Structure & Function: Activation patterns in male and female forebrain areas during habituation to food and context novelty

Read here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Impact of satiety on palatable food associative learning and consumption in male and female adult rats Hedonic and memory mechanisms can stimulate food cravings and consumption in sated individuals, promoting binge eating and obesity. Despite that, how …

Rebecca Shteyn, former graduate student Danielle Lafferty and Gorica Petrovich have published a paper in Physiology & Behavior: Impact of satiety on palatable food associative learning and consumption in male and female adult rats

Read here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congrats to the Petrovich lab for publishing two papers this month! See the following posts to learn about them

Congratulations to graduating neuroscience seniors Tracy Aggrey-Ansong and Haley Echols for winning two Ever To Excel awards! In a ceremony on Monday, April 28, Aggrey-Ansong was given the St Ignatius Award for Faith in Action and Echols was given the Welles Remy Crowther award

Congratulations to the Psych & Neuro Dean's and Sophomore Scholars of 2025! Last night they were honored at a formal dinner event that was attended by faculty & staff representatives of the department.

Marcus Trenfield selected as 1 of 3 finalists out of 31 grad students nominated across BC for the Ann Forest Morgan, EdD Graduate Student Award, which lauds graduate student leaders who demonstrate commitment to the grad student community & student experience via leadership, innovation & service.

Congrats to our 2025 Dean & Sophomore Scholars!
Neuro
Soph: Madison Grady, Peyton Zarate
Jr: Yudam Chang, Tyler de Grandpre, Madeleine Pinney
Psych
Soph: Kelly Choi, Faith Hochgesang, Lizzy Lamprey, Sarah McNickle, Dave Nelson, Angel Wang
Jr: Miracle Hodge, Pearl Miller, Veronica Wells

Ethograms predict visual fear conditioning status in rats Raw frames and scored behaviors have been deposited: doi:10.7910/DVN/Z4YJRJ

Former Lab Tech David Williams and the McDannald Lab have published an article on fear conditioning in rats in the journal eLife.
Read it here: elifesciences.org/articles/102...

Opioid deaths linked to lack of upward economic mobility, BC researchers find The unprecedented increase in drug overdose deaths in the United States, long believed to be driven by access to legal and illegal opioids, is most closely tied to an equally dramatic decline in upwar...

A 2024 paper by Gene Heyman, Ehri Ryu, and Hiram Brownell has been featured in the Boston College Chronicle, the BC News website, and EurekAlert. Heyman was interviewed for the article, explaining the goal of the research and its findings.

Read article: tinyurl.com/325yp64y

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