Princeton NAPL Kids Project

Members of NAPL visited Jose Marti STEM Academy to teach its students about Neuroscience! The students participated in demonstrations on brain anatomy, recording neural data from a cricket, visual and gustatory perception distortion, and eye-tracking. We had a great time learning with the students, and we hope to have another fun outreach event there in the future!

Dr. Sabine Kastner received this year's Award for Education in Neuroscience from the Society of Neuroscience (SfN) for her contribution to science education for all ages. Among these contributions is the creation of Frontiers for Young Minds, an open-access scientific journal for and edited by children, along with Dr. Robert Knight. Frontiers for Young Minds provides an opportunity for children from all around the world to engage with scientific research and participate in the publishing process. Read more here: https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/10/21/kastner-receives-award-education-neuroscience

Dr. Sabine Kastner received this year's Award for Education in Neuroscience from the Society of Neuroscience (SfN) for her contribution to science education for all ages. Among these contributions is the creation of Frontiers for Young Minds, an open-access scientific journal for and edited by children, along with Dr. Robert Knight. Frontiers for Young Minds provides an opportunity for children from all around the world to engage with scientific research and participate in the publishing process. Read more here:

Dr. Sabine Kastner receives Award for Education in Neuroscience Dr. Sabine Kastner received this year's Award for Education in Neuroscience from the Society of Neuroscience (SfN) for her contribution to science education for all ages. Among these contributions is the creation of Frontiers for Young Minds, an open-access scientific journal for and edited by child...

Na Yeon Kim is a graduate student studying the development of visuospatial attention in school children. Na Yeon's experiments often utilize her childhood obsessions, such as Pokémons, which now help her reveal some fascinating changes happening in children's brains.

Elsevier's campaign 'Inspiring women in Neuroscience' explores the role of women in science, the career paths of inspiring women in the field, and their advice for aspiring women scientists. Read Dr. Sabine Kastner's interview for the campaign here:

Q&A with Dr. Sabine Kastner, Editor-in-Chief of Progress in Neurobiology Q&A with Dr. Sabine Kastner

The Kids Project had fun leading short lessons and demonstrations at the annual Littlebrook Science Expo! Students learned about our project, tried some demonstrations using perception distortion goggles, and had fun asking questions about the brain. We can't wait until next year! :)

Check out “A biased competition theory for the developmental cognitive neuroscience of visuo-spatial attention”, a review article from our lab describing a framework on the development of attention function. Read more here:

A biased competition theory for the developmental cognitive neuroscience of visuo-spatial attention Selective attention is crucial for navigating natural visual environments, which are often crowded with too many objects to process simultaneously. Re…

We had a great time at the annual Communiversity ArtsFest. Families learned about the current projects in our lab, enjoyed demos using perception distortion goggles, and tried a variety of brain mazes. Thank you to all those that came by our table!

How does your brain help you visually search for something like your favorite pen or your homework? Read "I Spy With My Little Eye: What Visual Search Can Tell Us About How We See the World" https://kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2019.00004 … to learn more!

I Spy With My Little Eye: What Visual Search Can Tell Us About How We See the World We have all have experienced the frustration of looking for something we want, only to find a seemingly endless series of things we don’t want. This process of looking for an object of interest is called visual search. It is part and parcel of how we operate in the real world, where an object we w...

Sabine Kastner, Editor of Progress in Neurobiology, is making exciting changes by introducing open peer review, new article formats (including original research) & bringing early career investigators into the publication process. Read her Editorial here:

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NAPL will be at the SfN Conference this year! Dr. Sabine Kastner will give a lecture on the Neural Dynamics of the Primate Attention Network, and Na Yeon Kim, a graduate student at our lab, will present her research on the development of sensory competition in children!