Brain, Mind & Learning - Carnegie Mellon University

Brain, Mind & Learning at Carnegie Mellon

Carnegie Mellon University has been a leader in the areas of brain science, psychology, and learning research for many decades.

With the launch of the university’s new brain, mind & learning initiative, CMU now plans to become an even bigger player in these fields, while distinguishing ourselves from other brain research programs.

How? Two ways, really.

  • First, CMU has a top-ranked computer science school, and our brain researchers are taking full advantage of it. Like CMU faculty in other disciplines, brain, mind and learning researchers have a track record of leveraging the university’s world-class strengths in computation (e.g., artificial intelligence and automated learning) to answer scientific questions that are too complex for humans to figure out by themselves.
  • Second, CMU faculty have consistently demonstrated a willingness to break down disciplinary barriers, reaching across departments and centers to work together to solve real-world problems.

Learn more about how our researchers are solving real-world problems in this area »

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Illusion of Courage
January 25, Pittsburgh — We plan to take risks, then we "chicken out." In a new paper in the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Colorado Boulder scientists argue that this "illusion of courage" is one example of an "empathy gap" — our inability to imagine how we will behave in future emotional situations.

Losing Face
December 12, Essential Public Radio — We all see the world differently. But people with prosopagnosia — face-blindness — see it differently with an added major difference: they can't recognize who you are. CMU's Marlene Behrmann, one of the world's leading researchers on the condition, is working to find out why. Her specialty is in the ways that the brain makes sense of what the eyes see.

Brain Art
August 26, Pittsburgh — As a child, Carnegie Mellon University professor Patricia Maurides was rarely without her magnifying glass. From bugs to butterflies, her curiosity wasn't satisfied until she saw everything at a higher level of magnification. This fall, she is satisfying that same curiosity by adding a 'new lens' to her "Digital Color Photography" class — and it's her students who stand to benefit.

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