Wendy Higgins

May 17, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Angie Voyles Askham |Wendy Higgins |Robert Ross |Jill Adams

Senior reporterThe Transmitter Share this article: Tags: Neurodevelopment, Animal models, Cellular neuroscience, Circuits, forebrain, Sensory perception Some questions about neurons, such as how they give rise to behavior, are tricky to answer when those cells are embedded within their natural milieu. “Is residence in a nervous system sufficient to allow synapses to form?” says Kristin Baldwin, professor of genetics and development at Columbia University.

May 16, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Wendy Higgins |Robert Ross |Jill Adams

Ph.D. candidateMacquarie University Research fellowMacquarie University Share this article: Tags: Spectrum, Autism, Theory of mind Recently, one of us attended an academic talk about whether nonhuman animals have “theory of mind,” or the capacity to attribute thoughts and feelings to others. While introducing the topic, the presenter described theory of mind as the capacity that autistic people lack. This comment was unsurprising, yet unsettling.

May 15, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Megan Peters |Angie Voyles Askham |Wendy Higgins |Robert Ross

Associate professor of cognitive sciences University of California, Irvine Megan Peters is associate professor of cognitive sciences at the University of California, Irvine, a fellow in the Brain, Mind and Consciousness program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

May 13, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Wendy Higgins |Robert Ross |Calli McMurray |Jill Adams

Research fellow Macquarie University Robert M. Ross is a research fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Macquarie University. His primary research interests are belief formation, reasoning and metascience. Spectrum By , The widely used measure of “theory of mind” needs to be re-examined, along with the long-standing claim that autism is linked to a lack of this ability.

May 3, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Grace Lindsay |Wendy Higgins |Robert Ross |Jill Adams

It is a well-known irony of academia that the job of a principal investigator (PI) requires skills professors are traditionally not trained for. From teaching and mentoring to project managing and budgeting, PIs are required to know many things that don’t come up during the pure research they do as Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers.