Personality traits

…about behavioral individuality and personality traits. In contrast, the role of nonheritable noise during brain development in behavioral variation is understudied. Using the Drosophila melanogaster visual system, I will discuss our efforts to dissect how individuality in circuit wiring emerges during development, and how that helps generate individual behavioral variation.

In today's society, people often find it difficult to read news outside their social circle or comfort zone. The questions of whether limited availability or active avoidance of such information determines its limited reach and which neurocognitive factors contribute to this outcome are of huge importance but not adequately studied. MyNewsScan is a news aggregator platform that we developed to tackle such questions. We performed experiments asking participants to select, read and evaluate news articles on MyNewsScan: either in our Edinburgh lab with collection of biometric information such as

…it was demonstrated that personality can be seen as a predisposition to feel more frequently certain emotions, but the personality-appraisal-emotional response chain is rarely

…individual’s brain to the extent that personality traits and behavior can be characterized. The concept of “fingerprints of the brain” is very novel and has been boosted th

…about social groups, emotions, or personality traits helps determine how we visually