Figdor explores how decision-making, memory, and learning apply across species—and what evolution can tell us about the mind.

Comparative cognition researcher Edward Wasserman is featured in science magazine Nautilus about learning and the “edge of chaos”.

What began as a way to overcome his fear of public speaking now shapes how Dan Junis collaborates with colleagues, supports students, and helps people with obsessive-compulsive disorder practice navigating uncertainty.

Jeffrey Cockburn combines psychology, neuroscience, and computer science to explore how the brain makes predictions and improve mental health care.

She Shelf, a newly formed student organization at the University of Iowa, is working to end period poverty in the Iowa City community.

This Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences faculty member studies how the brain helps people understand one another—and how it adapts when its networks change.

A new University of Iowa study by associate professor Ece Demir-Lira suggests parents may be able to help children learn by pairing spoken words with hand gestures.

Ece Demir-Lira studies how children’s brains, environments, and relationships shape learning, with the goal of better understanding why children follow different developmental and academic paths.

CLAS researcher Isaac Petersen draws on his experience as a preschool teacher to better understand children's behavioral issues and improve early prevention efforts.

In a new study, CLAS researchers demonstrate how the frontoparietal cortex handles uncertainty in decision-making and organizes and coordinates responses in the brain and body.