Science made simple – in Spanish
Prompted by UCI grad student, popular radio podcast goes bilingual, starting with series on the pandemic
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Megan Peters receives TWCO grant to help consciousness researchers secure funding
Megan Peters, associate professor of cognitive sciences, has received a three-year, $234,000 grant from the Templeton World Charity Organization to enhance and accelerate National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation funding opportunities for consciousness researchers. “This is a complex concept and writing a compelling proposal can be challenging,” Peters says. The project will involve […]
Building Tomorrow’s AI: Smarter and Fairer
UCI researchers forge local and international partnerships to make artificial intelligence work better for actual people in real life
Experts using AI to help people cope during pandemic: ‘Robots are our friends’
ABC10, Sept. 2, 2020 (Video)
UCI’s robotics team focuses on COVID work
Orange County Business Journal, Aug. 17, 2020
Robots to the rescue
Socially assistive devices can help people cope in times of crisis
UCI Podcast: Top Chef winner and UCI alumna Melissa King dishes out college cooking tips
Melissa King, a 2005 UCI alumna with a bachelor’s degree in cognitive sciences, won Top Chef: All-Stars L.A., the 17th season of the show. In this episode of the UCI Podcast, King dishes on the final moments of the show and her unique California-Asian culinary style. She also shares cooking tips for college students and […]
UCI professor receives NIH grant to develop model to explain child neurobehavioral disorders
Michael Lee, UCI professor of cognitive sciences, has been awarded a five-year, $81,956 grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop mathematical models of brain activity to help understand behaviors in children diagnosed with ADHD and other neurobehavioral disorders. His work is part of a larger study being conducted by Vinod Menon, the director […]
Grudges before gratitude
Retaliation comes naturally to children, while positive reciprocity must be learned, says UCI cognitive scientist
Drugs commonly taken to improve cognition only boost short-term focus – at high cost
Nonprescribed psychostimulants impair sleep and working memory, UCI-led study finds