November 26, 2024 – The Short Wave Podcast on NPR recently published an episode on how to navigate holiday arguments. In the episode the hosts cited evidence from research from the Brain Function Lab here at the Yale School of Medicine related to the neural mechanisms underlying agree- and disagree-ments. The link to the episode is here.
June 5, 2024 – Dr. Hirsch presented the keynote address at the Eye Tracking Research and Applications meeting in Glasgow, Scotland.
May 2, 2024 – Jodi Chen, a Neuroscience Undergraduate student working in our lab presents her senior thesis findings.
January 1, 2024 – Dr. Hirsch is interviewed for an article in BioPhotonics titled, “Online or In-Person: How Do We Connect and Engage?” The article is available via the BioPhotonics website and in the Jan/Feb 2024 print issue.
November 30, 2023 – Jim Rutt interviews Dr. Hirsch regarding our recent work on the Jim Rutt Show Podcast. They discuss our paper “Separable Processes for Live ‘In-Person’ and Live ‘Zoom-like’ Faces,” which explores how humans respond at the neural level to Zoom calls versus in-person interactions. The podcast is available here.
November 13, 2023 — Scientific American has written a very interesting story regarding our recent publication in Imaging Neuroscience. The article is available at the following link: “It’s Not All in Your Head — You Do Focus Differently on Zoom”
October 25, 2023 — Our recent publication regarding differences in brain responses to live and Zoom interaction has been discussed on Yale News in an article titled “Zooming in on our brains on Zoom”. The article is available here, and the original published manuscript is available from Imaging Neuroscience here.
November 16, 2022 — The Brain Function Lab has published a new paper in partnership with the McPartland Lab at the Child Study Center at Yale University titled “Neural correlates of eye contact and social function in autism spectrum disorder”. The paper is available here. Yale News has also published a press release regarding the article at the following link here.
October 9-12, 2022 — Members of the Brain Function Lab attended the IN PERSON Society for Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Conference in Boston, Massachusetts’s recently. Dr. Hirsch was invited to provide the Keynote Lecture. A pdf of Dr. Hirsch’s talk is available here. Other members of the lab presented their work as posters and as presentations. Termara Parker was a recipient of one of the fNIRS 2022 Presentations Excellence Awards for Social and Developmental Neuroscience. Congratulations to Termara! Members of the Brain Function Lab and our friends from University College London had a fun night of dinner, drinks and dancing while in Boston.
July 4, 2022 — Nature has published an article that discusses work in our lab performed by Dr. Eric Jackson at NYU. The work focuses on understanding neural mechanisms underlying stuttering. The paper is here.
June 20, 2022 — PNAS has published an article on fNIRS. Dr. Hirsch contributed details regarding our usage of the technology to the contribution. Article is on PNAS here.
June 7, 2022 — Discovery Magazine is running an article that highlights the eye-to-eye interaction research in our lab. The article can be accessed here.
May 1, 2022 — Termara Parker, a graduate student in the Brain Function Lab, recently co-authored a publication in the Lancet titled, “Structural racism in neuroimaging: perspectives and solutions”. The paper is available here.
April 22, 2022 — The Oxford Book Launch ‘Body Brain Behavior – The Need For Conversations’ brought together three world leading scientist authors, Professor Zoltán Molnár and Yale Professors Tamas Horvath and Joy Hirsch, with Oxford’s neuroscience community on Thursday 7 April 2022. Additional information is available at the following link: https://www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/news/dpag-launches-body-brain-behavior-three-views-and-a-conversation-in-oxford
February 7, 2022 — James Crum has published a new manuscript titled, “An Approach to Neuroimaging Interpersonal Interactions in Mental Health Interventions” in Biological Psychiatry which includes data that he collected while at the Brain Function Lab. The link to the manuscript is here.
February 1, 2022 — Dr. Hirsch is co-author on a new book titled: “Body, Brain, Behavior: Three Views and a Conversation” which explores complexities of the brain. In “Body, Brain, Behavior: Three Views and a Conversation,” co-authored by Tamas Horvath and Joy Hirsch of the Yale School of Medicine, and Zoltán Molnár, a professor of developmental neuroscience at the University of Oxford, the three researchers each share a traditional chapter related to their disciplines: endocrine physiology, social neuroscience, and developmental neuroscience. But connecting the chapters is a series of transcripts of weekly conversations they held over two years. Yale News has a press release and additional information here.
Another of our research papers has been discussed on Psychology Today. In the article Nicklas Balboa discusses the following:
The direct link to the article is at the following link: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-neuroscience-conversations/202109/is-why-we-avoid-difficult-conversations
The original article can be found in Frontiers of Human Neuroscience.
Nicklas Balboa published an article on Psychology Today titled “How Does the Brain Manage Socioeconomic Diversity?” which he discussed how neuroscience techniques paint a picture of pro-social connection in the brain. His article focuses on a recent publication from our lab, “Neural processes for live pro-social dialogue between dyads with socioeconomic disparity” The article can be found here.
March 22, 2021 — Our lab is featured in an article about fNIRS and hyperscanning on Optics and Photonics News. “Shedding Light on the Human Brain” discusses the how functional near-infrared spectroscopy opens a window into brain activity outside the confines of an MRI machine. The link to the article is here.
February 11, 2021 — Our recent publication “Interpersonal Agreement and Disagreement During Face-to-Face Dialogue: An fNIRS Investigation” has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and Yale News. The link to the original article in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience is here and the link to the WSJ article is here. An additional article in The Ladders also summarizes the research study here.
