The Neural Basis of Insight- Preview

21/12/2016 1 min
The Neural Basis of Insight- Preview

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Jessica Payne, Ph.D. holds appointments at Harvard Medical School and the University of Notre Dame, where she is currently Assistant Professor and Nancy O'Neill Collegiate Chair in Psychology, and Director of the Sleep Stress and Memory (SAM) Lab. Dr. Payne’s research focuses on how sleep and stress independently and interactively influence human memory, emotion, performance and creativity. She teaches various courses in Psychology and Neurobiology, including a popular course entitled “The Sleeping Brain” for which she won Harvard University’s Bok Center Award for teaching excellence.