A collaborative group of neuroscientists from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine received a $6.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechn... read more
Two neuroscience powerhouses, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, have a long-standing partnership in the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC), a 28-year-old neuroscience research and education program. After a yearlon... read more
Graduate student studies link between speech perception and speech production When visiting a different city or country, travelers may find themselves slipping into the local accent. Timothy Murphy wants to find out why. Researchers have been studying t... read more
Many hearing loss patients have the same complaint: They have trouble following conversations in a noisy space. Carnegie Mellon University’s Barbara Shinn-Cunningham has spent her career conducting research to better understand this problem and how it... read more
Roberta Klatzky, the Charles J. Queenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. She is an expert in cognition whose research examines the relationships between human perception and action, with a focus on touch.... read more
CNBC colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh, Helen Schwerdt, Peter Strick, Bill Stauffer, and Rob Turner are featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered” discussing the latest in Parkinson’s Disease research. Read or listen to A... read more
A new, multi-institutional MS-to-PhD program will help strengthen collaboration between Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh campuses and expand access to graduate education in the growing fields of artificial intelligence, robotics... read more
Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, director of the Neuroscience Institute and George A. and Helen Dunham Cowan Professor of Auditory Neuroscience, is part of an interdisciplinary team that won the 2021 Misha Mahowald Prize for Neuromorphic Engineering. This year ... read more
David Touretzky, a research professor in Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Science Department, will receive the 2022 AAAI/EAAI Outstanding Educator award for his work with the Artificial Intelligence for K-12 Initiative (AI4K12.org). The award i... read more
Mort Mishkin, an American neuropsychologist, and winner of the National Medal of Science, passed away on October 2, 2021. Dr. Mishkin, in his role as the Chief of the Section on Cognitive Neuroscience, Laboratory of Neuropsychology at the National Institu... read more