Author: Kate Fehlhaber

Big Ideas Did You Know? Interviews 

Spinning Logic

May 24, 2017June 30, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber 0 Comments Brain, Conversation, Future, Interview, Kate Fehlhaber, Neuroscience, Perception, Podcast, SciComm, Spinning Logic, STEM, Vision, Women

I had the opportunity to speak with Jason Havey, host of the Spinning Logic podcast! And it was a blast!!… Read more

Neuro News Science Policy 

March for Science

April 19, 2017December 4, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber 0 Comments Advocacy, Budget, March, March for Science, National Institutes of Health, NeuroTransmissions, NIH, resist, Science, STEM, Videos

America feels like it’s unraveling. And science is holding on by a thread.… Read more

52 Brain Facts Did You Know? Popular Articles 

It’s Brain Awareness Week!

March 13, 2017June 30, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber 0 Comments 10 Brain Facts, 52 Brain Facts, BAW, Brain Awareness Week, Interviews, Videos, Weird Animal Brains

Every March, Brain Awareness Week (BAW, for short) unifies the world in celebration of the brain and mind! In order to raise awareness about how the brain works, what neuroscientists… Read more

Big Ideas Science Policy 

The Consequences of Illusory Superiority

February 6, 2017October 8, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber 4 Comments Alternative Facts, Darwin, Dunning-Kruger effect, Einstein, Fact, Facts, illusion of confidence, illusory superiority, Instructor, Knowledge, Lemon, McArthur Wheeler, Politics, Psychology, SciComm, Socratic, Student, Stupid, Teacher, Trump, Veritasium, Vsauce

On January 6, 1995, a large five-foot-six 270-pound middle-aged man robbed two Pittsburgh banks in broad daylight. He didn’t wear a mask or any sort of disguise. And he smiled… Read more

Did You Know? Popular Articles 

Our Year in Review

December 21, 2016June 30, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber 0 Comments 2016, Neuroscience, Research, SciArt, SciComm

Knowing Neurons had an amazing year, and we are so thankful for all your support throughout our journey!  Here are some highlights from 2016!… Read more

Brain Development Interviews Sensation and Perception 

A Grand Vision: A Conversation with Lynne Kiorpes

November 10, 2016June 30, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber 0 Comments Development, Interview, Lynne Kiorpes, Neuroscience, Neuroscientist, Next Generation Award, SfN, SfN16, Society for Neuroscience, Vision

When babies are born, they cannot see very well, but their vision vastly improves as they continue to develop.  Sometimes, the eyes don’t communicate well with the brain, and vision… Read more

Interviews Sensation and Perception 

Is Seeing Believing? A Conversation with Tom Albright

November 9, 2016June 30, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber 3 Comments Brain, Forensic, Interview, Memory, Neuroscience 2016, Neuroscientist, Next Generation Award, Perception, Salk, San Diego, Science, SfN, SfN16, Society for Neuroscience, Tom Albright, Vision

What does eye-witness identification have to do with neuroscience?  A lot, actually.… Read more

Neuro News 

We won an award!

November 7, 2016June 30, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber 4 Comments Award, Education, Interview, Neuroscience, Neuroscience 2016, Next Generation Award, Outreach, SciArt, SciComm, SfN, SfN16, Society for Neuroscience

We are excited to announce that we received the Society for Neuroscience 2016 Next Generation Award. This award recognizes SfN chapter members who have made outstanding contributions to public communication,… Read more

Did You Know? Neuro News Sensation and Perception 

How a mother’s voice shapes her baby’s developing brain

October 12, 2016June 30, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber 1 Comment auditory, Brain, Fingerprint, Mother, Pattern, Reward, Soothe, Speech, Study, Voice

It is no surprise that a child prefers its mother’s voice to those of strangers.  Beginning in the womb, a fetus’s developing auditory pathways sense the sounds and vibrations of… Read more

Did You Know? Sensation and Perception 

When the blind can see again: A critical question of perception

September 28, 2016June 30, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber 0 Comments Acuity, Blind, Cat, Cataracts, Color, Critical Period, Deprivation, Development, Hubel, Illusion, Kitten, Light, Monocular, Oversegementation, Perception, Perceptual, Project Prakash, See, Sight, synaptic plasticity, Touch, Vision, Visual, Visual cortex, Wiesel

Our sense of sight is arguably our most important sense.  Imagine how different your life would be if soon after birth, you lost the ability to see.  For over 1.4… Read more

Brain Books 

Idiot Brain: What Your Head is Really Up To, A Review

July 27, 2016June 30, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber 1 Comment Book, Brain, Comedian, Dean Burnett, Funny, Guardian, Idiot Brain, Neuroscience, Read, Recommend, Review, What Your Head Is Really Up To

Your brain is the most remarkable thing about you because it makes you you.  So, when Dean Burnett, Ph.D. chose to describe all that the brain does to make you… Read more

Sensation and Perception 

The Spectacularly Colorful World of the Mantis Shrimp

June 22, 2016June 30, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber 0 Comments Behavior, Blue, Brain, Color, Cone, Green, Hue, Mantis Shrimp, Nanometer, Photoreceptor, Physiology, Rainbow, Receptor, Red, Scientist, See, Sight, Spectral discrimination task, Vision, Yellow

Our eyes contain millions of color-sensitive cells, called cones, which maximally respond to red, green, and blue light.  With just these three types of color receptors, we can see the… Read more