Boston University

Cognitive Development

Neuroscience

As Memories Fade, Can We Supercharge Them Back to Life?

April 9, 2019

Double Exposure image of a man wearing Oculus Rift virutal reality goggles with nightmarish visions of a dark figure walking towards him out of a fiery forest background inside his head

Psychiatry & Psychology

How Virtual Reality Might Help Fight Recurring Nightmares

January 30, 2019

Wendy Coster (left) and Gael Orsmond (right)

Autism

Life after High School

December 3, 2018

Urban Health

Eggs of Urban Chickens Contaminated with Lead

September 14, 2018

Team 8’s Richard Nesbit (from left), Fritz Jolivain, and Brett Moretzky demonstrating the Groove Gloves.

Engineering

Engineering to the Rescue

May 10, 2017

Image of black dots of a dalmation

Neuroscience

The Dyslexia Paradox

January 24, 2017

Peter Blake, assistant professor in Boston University department of psychological and brain sciences and director of Boston University Child Development Labs

Psychiatry & Psychology

“It’s Not Fair!”

November 18, 2015

Gerald Kidd and Jayaganesh Swaminathan study the cocktail party problem: why it’s so hard to distinguish one voice in a crowd. Can musical training help?

Hearing Sciences

The Cocktail Party Problem

October 5, 2015

Steve Grossberg, Boston University Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems, in his home office

Neuroscience

Steve Grossberg’s Long Walk Toward the Light

August 6, 2015

In a study at the Boston Museum of Science, Kathleen Corriveau had children drop a marble into one of two tubes to assess their preference for written or oral instructions to guide their actions

Cognitive Development

Want Children to Listen? Write It Down

December 8, 2014

Unlocking Emily's World

Autism

Unlocking Emily’s World

October 28, 2014

Boston University BU, Peter Blake, College of Arts and Sciences CAS professor, psychology research, child psychology and sharing, children cultural norms

Cognitive Development

“I Should but I Won’t”

June 28, 2013

“I Should but I Won’t”