The experience of applying new knowledge to your usual routine Rachel Orenstein UA’24 and Jim Stellar This is an unusual title for a blog that you developed. Let’s take a moment to expand on what it means. After all, the … Continued
Productivity in career choice from a mentoring relationship Helena Horvat UC’23 and Jim Stellar The goal of this blog post is to discuss how a mentoring relationship can develop between a faculty member and an undergraduate student and how that … Continued
The Orbital Frontal Cortex: Reward, Value, and Decision-Making Onoseta Momodu UA‘24 and Jim Stellar Building on the last blog on the dorsal medial prefrontal cortex, we continue here with the orbital frontal cortex (OFC), which also represents limbic processes, but … Continued
Limbic interactions of the dorsal medial prefrontal cortex By Vanessa NyBlom and Jim Stellar The modern understanding of how the neocortex supports cognition is that the 6-layered neocortex builds internal models of the world from input, rather than simply passively … Continued
Indecisiveness, Emotion, and Decisions Christina Cheng and Jim Stellar Indecisiveness buries itself within daily life. I’ve found that it has become more heightened especially as I get older, and the decisions I make become more significant. Indecisiveness presents itself differently … Continued
From Montessori philosophy for elementary students to mentoring college students: The value of feelings in learning success by Alison Van Keuren and Jim Stellar Alison is an occupational therapist who has taken a learning specialist position at a Montessori school. … Continued
Noor Ahmed UA’23, Nina Pluviose SFC’ 24, Brandy Eggan, and Jim Stellar As part of the University at Albany CSTEP program over 2 years, we created a brief informal survey to assess variation in the way wisdom is perceived. This … Continued
Cortical subcortical integration and decisions: A prefrontal cortex – nucleus accumbens neural circuit case study Vanessa Nyblom UA ’25 and Jim Stellar In our last blog, we consider the prefrontal cortex (PFC) interactions with the amygdala as part of the … Continued
Seeking experiential education in undergraduate research after transferring to a new university Isabella Bertolami BU’23 and Jim Stellar Isabella is the daughter of a former undergraduate student of Jim’s in his neuroscience laboratory at Northeastern. She is now an undergraduate … Continued
By Rachel Orenstein UA ’24 and Jim Stellar This blog is fundamentally about how experiential education activities reshape and enhance the classical college experience of courses and majors. Recently, Jim had a business administration major, Rachel, take one of his … Continued