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Using virtual reality, an AI module for future vision prostheses, designed by Michael Beyeler’s Bionic Vision Lab, creates practical and useful artificial vision.

Seeing the future: Michael Beyeler’s work in neurotechnology earns him top faculty award

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Matt Perko
“Coming back to school a little bit older and as a veteran has helped me truly appreciate this experience. It turns out I really enjoy this environment and being in academia — it’s been phenomenal,” says Shadoe Neri-Dewitt ’24.

How a transfer student veteran went from Navy to neuroscience
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Matt Perko

University names winners of top student awards for Class of 2024
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AI learns to pay covert attention
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Matt Perko
Brenda Major, May 2024

Brenda Major elected to National Academy of Sciences
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UC Santa Barbara selects inaugural Public Voices Fellows
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Russell Sage Foundation taps UCSB social scientists for fellowships
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A holistic framework for studying social emotions
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Simona Pilolla

Embracing single life: Love, intimacy and family beyond the couple
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Social-behavioral findings can be highly replicable, six-year study by four labs suggests
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Elena Zhukova

Are sportier people better friends? New research looks at physical activity and close relationships
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Moral reasoning creates distinct patterns of activity in the brain.

Moral reasoning displays characteristic patterns in the brain, with distinctions between moral categories
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Matt Perko
Emily Jacobs’ lab primarily examines how hormones affect the brain

The current landscape of women’s health — and how it might be improved
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