Center for Brain, Behavior and Cognition

Bringing together researchers from a broad range of disciplines — including psychology, biology, entomology, physics and engineering — to explore how neural processes underpin animal and human cognition and behavior

The Center also offers education and training to graduate students and postdoctoral scholars through courses and seminars at Penn State.

Recent publications: Approaches in Neuroscience: Researchers use fMRI and state-of-the-art brain mapping techniques to study alcohol's effects on first-year students
The team, which includes several scientists affiliated with the Huck Institutes, recently completed a first-of-its-kind longitudinal pilot study aimed at better understanding how the neural processes that underlie responses to alcohol-related cues change across students' first year of college.; Ping Li co-authors "Having Success with NSF: A Practical Guide"
The guide is designed to help researchers achieve success in getting their National Science Foundation (NSF) research proposals funded.; Zombie-ant fungus is under attack by hyperparasites
An international research team led by Penn State professor and Huck Institutes researcher David Hughes has discovered that hyperparasitic fungi — which are not pathogens of ants — infect the zombie-ant fungi and significantly limit the viability of their spore-producing organs, thus reducing the danger posed to the colony.

News: Penn State to host international conference on pollinator health
The Center for Pollinator Research — directed by Huck Institutes affiliate Christina Grozinger — will host the second International Conference on Pollinator Biology, Health and Policy, bringing together some of the world's foremost scientists in the field to discuss the latest research aimed at understanding and overcoming challenges to pollinator health. Penn State to host international conference on pollinator health - Full article; Huck Institutes neuroscientist in Taiwan learning sciences partnership
Ping Li — co-chair of the Huck Institutes' Neuroscience graduate program and co-director of the Center for Brain, Behavior and Cognition — is part of a collaboration between Penn State and National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) to establish the Advanced Center for the Study of the Learning Sciences. Huck Institutes neuroscientist in Taiwan learning sciences partnership - Full article; Decoys could blunt spread of ash-killing beetles
After 25 years, Tom Baker and other researchers may have found a way to keep the emerald ash borer in check. Decoys could blunt spread of ash-killing beetles - Full article

Center for Brain, Behavior and Cognition

Graduate programs: College of Medicine residencies and fellowships; Neuroscience