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  • How to tell if someone is REALLY listening to you: Researchers discover pupil dilation patterns synch up 'when two minds connect' ('Daily Mail')

    April 13, 2017

    The Daily Mail features a new study by Dartmouth College associate professor of psychological and brain sciences, Thalia Wheatley and colleagues which has found that using eye-tracking technology to monitor pupil dilation, it is possible to determine when two minds 'connect'. In this study, researchers used eye-tracking technology to track pupillary dilation between speakers and listeners when telling an autobiographical story. 

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  • What Makes You Crave Sex and Chocolate? ('Daily Mail')

    November 17, 2015

    The Daily Mail features a new study by a Dartmouth post-doctoral fellow,  Stephen Chang, and colleagues that traces cravings to a particular region in the brain.  Chang tells the Daily Mail, "Although we have a sense of what brain circuits mediate reward, less is known about the neural circuitry underlying the transfer of value to cues associated with rewards". The aim of this line of research is to provide insight into, and potential solutions toward combating habitual behaviors, such as overeating.

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  • Familiar Faces (ScienceNews)

    August 23, 2013

    In a story about “super recognizers” — people who have an exceptional ability to remember faces — ScienceNews turns for comment to Dartmouth’s Bradley Duchaine. Duchaine, an associate professor of psychological and brain sciences, and colleagues in England are studying super recognizers to understand how some people are able to recognize nearly everyone they’ve ever seen, the magazine writes. Knowledge gained from such studies may aid in police work and other fields that rely on identifying people by how they look, notes the magazine.

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