Posts Tagged Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience

The historic gift, the largest single one in University history, will build the new Golisano Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Institute.

Rochester neuroscientists have found that the ability to visually predict movement may be crucial for making a great catch or grabbing a moving object.

Research suggests that older adults whose brain performance improves when they combine a cognitive task with walking may be super-agers.

Neuroscience research reveals new clues about the mechanisms for regrowing the cochlear hair cells that help us hear.

With their discovery, Rochester neuroscience researchers continue to transform our understanding of the fundamental mechanics of the human brain.

Certain young and healthy people show improved performance on cognitive tasks while walking, a finding that could guide scientists to identify markers for cognitive flexibility.

Rochester researcher Benjamin Suarez-Jimenez and his colleagues used virtual reality to better understand how anxiety effects the brain in a ‘real-world-like’ environment.

For nearly 60 years, the University’s Center for Visual Science has been transforming our understanding of vision and how we treat vision disorders.

Lulu Abdullahi (right), a junior at East High School in the Rochester City School District, practices soldering to repair an experiment component with Manuel Gomez-Ramirez, an assistant professor in the University’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. For six weeks, Abdullahi and a classmate visited campus as part of NEUROEAST, a new Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience program.

A $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation will establish a structured, well-rounded training program for University scholars applying augmented and virtual reality in health, education, design, and other fields.