• » Jane W. Couperus, associate professor of developmental cognitive neuroscience
• » Cynthia Gill, associate professor of physiology
• » Joanna Morris, associate professor of cognitive science
• » Neil Stillings, professor of psychology

• » Neuroendocrine Correlates of Altruism and Aggression
• » Reading, the Brain, and Reading the Brain: a developmental study in working memory and N400 amplitude
• » HIV in the Pediatric Brain: Evidence of HIV-1 DNA in Nestin Positive Neural Progenitor Cells and Potential Consequences of Infection
• » The Neurophysiology of the Religious Experience
• » Narrating Neuropathology: A Study of Women and Bipolar Disorder
• » CBI and Opioid Receptor Interaction: A Literature and FRET Study
• » Fragile X Syndrome: from Neuron to Cognition

• » Aliens: Close Encounters of a Multidisciplinary Kind
• » Attention, Brain, and Cognition: Electrophysiological Methodologies
• » Cognitive Development
• » Consciousness Considered
• » Exploring the Unconscious Mind
• » Healthy Hormones and Modern Ills
• » How People Learn: Intro to Cognition and Education
• » Human Gene Therapy
• » Human Physiology
• » Intro to Cognitive Education
• » Intro to Cognitive Neuroscience
• » Intro to Neuropsychology
• » Minds, Brains, and Machines: The 50 Key Ideas
• » Molecular and Cellular Biology

• » The Neuroendocrinology of Behavior
• » The Neuroscience of Personality
• » The Plastic Brain
• » Sex on the Brain: Gender, Sex, and Biology

Cole Science Center
Cole Science Center at Hampshire College boasts some of the most up-to-date laboratories at any liberal arts college nationwide. Hampshire’s open lab policy makes these facilities available to natural science students at all levels. Classes regularly use our chemistry, endocrinology, and molecular biology laboratories, gaining hands-on experience and learning basic experimental procedures, while concentrators at the Division II and III levels design their own original research projects.

Students have full access to the labs outside of classroom hours in order to perform and analyze their experiments, and are given appropriate training in the use of complex and sophisticated equipment encountered elsewhere only at the graduate and post-grad level. Hampshire’s state-of-the-art laboratory equipment includes a laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer, an inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometer, and many other resources.

The ERP Laboratory
The ERP laboratory in Adele Simmons Hall provides an amazing opportunity for undergraduate students to design and complete original research in neuroscience.

ERPs, or event related potentials, are a noninvasive measure of electrical activitity occurring in the brain. They have high temporal resolution and are ideal for studying the process of cognition. Studies in the lab have spanned topics as diverse as emotions’ effects on attention bias to language development in children, and student projects have been presented at national conferences. The lab currently includes a SynAmps 32 channel amplifier system and two personal computers, one for stimulus display and behavioral response measurement, and another for data acquisition. Additionally, the lab has multiple computers for experimental development, behavioral studies, and statistical analysis.

Neuroendocrinology and Behavior (NEB) Lab
The Neuroendocrinology and Behavior (NEB) Lab is a space and collaborative group of students and faculty doing research to test questions about the role of the nervous and endocrine systems in behavior. Major areas of focus in the lab are social behaviors (parental behavior, pair-bonding, empathy, etc.) and stress reactivity (physiological responses to acute or chronic stressors including brain regulatory and epigenetic mechanisms).

The lab is equipped with two environmental chambers, a microtome, and a microplate reader for tissue histology and hormone immunoassays. We also have tools for controlled behavioral and physiological testing. Early life social environment has profound influence on brain organization and behavioral repertoire. Exposure to stressors can similarly generate lasting modifications to brain function and behavior. The NEB lab is a place to examine the mechanisms for these changes in a community of scholars.

Program in Culture, Brain, and Development (CBD)
The Program in Culture, Brain and Development (CBD) at Hampshire College explores the frontiers of culture, psychology, neuroscience, and biology. Funded by the Foundation for Psychocultural Research, the goal of CBD is to foster innovative learning and research into questions about the relationships among culture, environment, biology, and brain/mind that reach across traditional disciplinary boundaries.

The program sponsors events such as public lectures, seminars, and a distinguished lecture series. It offers stipends for students to encourage upper-level work at the intersection of culture, brain, and development, such as original research projects using the ERP lab, and has supported faculty in designing multi-disciplinary courses on these issues.