🚨ATTN: Prospective Psych & Neuro doctoral students🚨 Sign-up for the @bostoncollege.bsky.social Pre-Doctoral Mentorship Program (PDMP) for one-on-one mentorship to psychology & neuroscience doctoral programs. Sign-up ASAP, application is open until 11/15. See the link in the flyer.

Taylor Stone & Sara Cordes of the Infant and Child Cognition Lab had their paper, "The Role of Worked Examples in Supporting Early Math Learning," published in the Journal of Intelligence! Read more: www.mdpi.com/2079-3200/14...

We're excited to announce the Marginalia Science x Boston College 2026 One-Day Conference will occur October 30th at Boston College! The deadline for application submissions has been extended to Tuesday, Sept 15th!

Zoe Irving, a senior honors thesis student, Carter Whetstone, and Gorica Petrovich have published a paper in Physiology & Behavior! Read more here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ph...

Seoyeon Bae's paper, "Altrusitic, more than reputation concerns, drive legacy motives, values, and aspirations across the world", has been published in Personality and Individual Differences! Read more here: doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...

Congratulations to Marcus Trenfield for being selected for the 2026 Ann Forest Morgan, Ed.D. Graduate Student Award!

New research from our department! Stacee Santos, Hiram Brownell, & Sara Cordes's latest paper, "Language Access is a Catalyst for Early Numerical Abilities," has been accepted for publication in Developmental Science. Read more here: www.bc.edu/content/bc-w...

Congratulations to Gorica Petrovich, Danielle Lafferty, Shelby Parsons, Amanda Madden, & Rebecca Shteyn for their publication in Learning & Memory! Read more here: learnmem.cshlp.org/content/33/1...

A 2025 paper by Yu Zhu, Aidas Aglinskas, and Stefano Anzellotti has been featured on the BC News website. Anzellotti was interviewed for the article, describing how their method, DeepCor, greatly outperforms conventional denoising techniques for fMRI data. Read article: www.bc.edu/content/bc-w...

Removing ‘noise’ from MRI images

New AI-assisted method developed by BC researchers outperforms previous approaches by 200 percent

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My (awesome) department @bcpsychneuro.bsky.social is looking for a Visiting Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology/Neuroscience. 3-2 teaching load and competetive compensation. Area of expertise is broad. Apply here. Email me with questions! apply.interfolio.com/178919 Please RT #Neuroskyence

🚨ATTENTION🚨 The Department of Psychology & Neuroscience is looking for a Visiting Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology/Neuroscience! Details: - 3-2 teaching load - Competitive compensation - Broad area of expertise Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/178919 Email johnpc@bc.edu with questions!

🚨ATTN: Prospective Psych & Neuro doctoral students 🚨 Sign-up for the @BostonCollege Pre-Doctoral Mentorship Program (PDMP) for one-on-one mentorship to psychology & neuroscience doctoral programs. Sign-up ASAP, deadline 11/15. See the link in the flyer.

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.

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

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...

Ethograms predict visual fear conditioning status in rats

Raw frames and scored behaviors have been deposited: doi:10.7910/DVN/Z4YJRJ

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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

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...

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