by nizhen | Sep 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
Gabriel Popkin of Nature News describes a new study where prisoners in solitary confinement were split into two groups, one of which allowed these prisoners the opportunity to view 45-minute long nature videos up to five times per week for several months. There were...
by nizhen | Aug 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
Professor Berman and former lab manager/incoming doctoral student Kathryn Schertz are among the summer 2017 winners of the UChicago App Challenge, which will allow them to receive assistance in developing an app called ReTUNE, which stands for “Restoring Through...
by nizhen | Jul 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
Deanna Pai writes in New York Magazine about her experiences with ‘chemo brain,’ which is a set of cognitive deficits resulting from chemotherapy. She references a study co-authored by Professor Berman which provides a neurocognitive analysis of breast...
by nizhen | Feb 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
The lab’s work was recently cited in a Baltimore Sun article by McKay Jenkins about the value of trees in the Chesapeake Bay area. Dr. Jenkins referenced the lab’s 2015 paper on neighborhood greenspace and health in Toronto. To read Dr. Jenkins article...
by nizhen | Nov 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
Laura Bliss, a staff writer at The Atlantic’s CityLab, recently wrote an article discussing our new JEP:General manuscript “The Order of Disorder: Deconstructing Visual Disorder and Its Effect on Rule-Breaking.” Please click here for her...
by nizhen | Oct 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
Kevin Lewis, a correspondent from The Boston Globe, wrote a summary of our publication in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General about visual disorder and rule-breaking (The Order of Disorder). Please click here for the article.