Environmental Neuroscience Lab @UChicago directed by Dr. Marc Berman Focusing on how the physical environment affects the brain & behavior
Chicago, IL
Joined October 2019
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New paper on Roman Britain develops a new understanding of economic growth; shows how it happens in pre-industrial societies. New methods allow separation of intensive from extensive growth, due to settlement scaling @sfiscience @miurban
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Conceptual story: Crime is explained by the management of commercial establishments AND context. And demographics still matter, too, as crime is higher in high-poverty communities, controlling for the effects of managers.
New paper led by @Riley_NEU in J Quant Crim (@SpringerCrim)
e.g.: Rstrnts with lower Yelp ratings --> more crime BUT less when there are other rstrnts on the street. They benefit from well-managed nbrs. link.springer.com/article/10…
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We tested 10 behavioral interventions to mitigate #climatechange in 63 countries (N = 59,440)
The interventions’ effectiveness was small, largely limited to nonclimate skeptics, and differed across outcomes:
-Beliefs were strengthened mostly by decreasing psychological distance (by 2.3%)
-Policy support by writing a letter to a future-generation member (2.6%)
-Information sharing by negative emotion induction (12.1%)
-No intervention increased the more effortful behavior—several interventions even backfired by reducing tree planting!
Our paper is in @ScienceAdvances : science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
It was led by @vlasceanu_mada and @kim_doell and included a massive team of over 250 collaborators from around the world!
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Now out in @SfNJournals #JNeurosci: doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.12…
People infer intentions from other's behaviors. How do individual differences in hostile attribution bias affect how they process social scenarios? w/ @Zishan__Su, @Dawn_M_Neumann, @kim_meidenbauer, @YuanChangLeong.
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Our new paper outlines how neuroscience can be used to:
(1) study the impact of climate change on the brain
(2) identify ways to adapt
(3) study the neural substrates of environmental decisions & outcomes
(4) create better communication & interventions nature.com/articles/s41558-0…
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🚨🚨🚨We have a new perspective out today in @natureclimate called “Leveraging neuroscience for climate change research” shorturl.at/dyN35 where we call on brain researchers to help combat #climatechange🧵
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An extremely cool new paper led by the singular @kate_schertz published in @JEnvPsych! 🎉Proud to have contributed (along with several past/present @EnvNeuroLab members) to this work on how environments influence our thoughts and connections to others and the world around us! 😊
Excited to share our new paper examining social thoughts and feelings in nature, typically considered an asocial environment! Thread with some of the key findings (1/n)
Free access until Aug 3rd here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1hFRm…
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Lonely or overly self-focused? Natural spaces can help. @kim_meidenbauer explains how. psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…
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🌴CAB Lab posters #VSS2023
Sat AM: Julia Pruin asks if memorability can rescue memory during an attn lapse @WilmaBainbridge @MdeBettencourt
Sun PM: @AnnaCorriveau investigates aud+vis sustained attn &effects on memory
Tues PM: Ziwei Zhang debuts a 🧠model of surprise @zzwziwei
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New CAB Lab preprint from Omid Kardan! Change in an existing fMRI network model of cognitive performance predicts improvement in cog perf from age 9-10 to 11-12. These changes were associated w/an important aspect of the physical environment: air pollution tinyurl.com/yv4kw9un
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It’s certainly more beautiful to be surrounded by mature trees than endless concrete and traffic — and research suggests it could be better for your mental and physical health as well. @spaikin speaks with Marc Berman (@EnvNeuroLab), tonight at 8/11pm | Producer: @ebombicino
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We're looking for a new postdoc to join our team. Please share widely!
careers.umich.edu/job_detail…
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ChatGPT is just a single star in the AI galaxy.
More than 1,000 new AI tools were released last week.
Here are 8 insane AI websites that will save you hours of work:
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To retaliate or not to retaliate? Discover the RC-RAGE, a novel methodology to study reactive aggression. #psynomBRM #ReactiveAgression #DecisionMaking @kim_meidenbauer @akrambakkour @minzlicht @EnvNeuroLab; post by @Jo_A_Caballero
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I'm excited to be this week's invited speaker at the @UChicago MA in Computational Social Science program's Computation Workshop. I will present my work entitled "Novel Dynamical Models of Wealth and Cooperation Using Information Theory"...
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Had a great time chatting about the relationship between nature connection and wellbeing on the "Doing Well: The Wellbeing Science Insights Podcast"!
Links here to all your favorite podcast platforms: linktr.ee/wellbeingsciencela… (1/3)
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We're thrilled to announce the inaugural CEGU Conference—Environmental Emergencies, Emergent Environments: Critical Perspectives from the Social Sciences and Humanities—taking place April 20–21 at @UChicago's Regenstein Library.
Details-->cegu.uchicago.edu/events/con…
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Living in cities requires constant learning: What are the consequences?
We find that experiencing larger, more diverse and less segregated cities reduces implicit racial biases: psyarxiv.com/4w5tf/
@andrew_stier @EnvNeuroLab @miurbanchicago
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Scientists spend too much time taking “professional selfies”.
A paper from PNAS describes what it takes to be a scientist today. Key points (that I always emphasize myself):
#AcademicTwitter @AcademicChatter #research
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Thankful to coauthors—esp 1st author Omid Kardan—for massive efforts! This is one of my favorite papers because it doesn't just ask wether we can predict behavior from functional connectivity, but also asks what we learn from patterns of predictive model success & failure.
Which #brain networks support #SustainedAttention & #WorkingMemory during development? @monicarosenb &co show that adult functional network models predict individual differences & within-person changes in pre-adolescents’ SA & WM performance #PLOSBiology plos.io/3PLtDDD
