Professor and Director of the Laboratory for Darwinian Neuroscience here in the Psychology Department at Emory, Dr. James Rilling studies the human brain as much as those of our primate…
Category: Faculty Publications
Dr. Gregory Berns Publishes “Cowpuppy: An Unexpected Friendship and a Scientist’s Journey into the Secret World of Cows”
In his new book, Dr. Gregory Berns brings insight from his knowledge as a neuroscientist and his day-to-day experience caring for a bovine family on his Georgia farm together into…
“Changing life on a contextual dime”– The Kelly Lab publishes ‘Testosterone facilitates nonreproductive, context-appropriate pro- and anti-social behavior in female and male Mongolian gerbils’
Published in Hormones and Behavior vol. 156, Testosterone facilitates nonreproductive, context-appropriate pro- and anti-social behavior in female and male Mongolian gerbils expands on the findings of this study, examining the…
What is the brain basis of pleasure in humans? Drs. Phillip Kragel, Michael T. Treadway and Emory collaborators publish ‘a mesocorticolimbic signature of pleasure in the human brain’ seeking answers
Published in Nature Human Behavior, ‘A mesocorticolimbic signature of pleasure in the human brain’ expands on findings that provide evidence for the basis of human pleasure that is distributed across…
Challenges and Opportunities for Experimental Psychopathology and Translational Research
Published by Michael T Treadway https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-14332-8_11
Supergenes on Steroids
By Emory Psychology Professor, Dr. Donna L. Maney and Dr. Clemens Küpper of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology. Read the full article here.
Evolutionary theory prediction: Response rate as a joint function of reinforcement rate and reinforcer magnitude
Emory Psychology Professor Dr. Jack McDowell in the Journal of Experimental Analysis of Behavior. Read the full paper here.
We know more than we ever learned: Processes involved in accumulation of world knowledge
Dr. Patricia J. Bauer, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Psychology in Child Development Perspectives. Read the full paper here.