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image: Research headerJohn Cacioppo:
Linking the mind and body

A new U of C professor pioneers the field of social neuroscience, showing how biology and social behavior interact.

From the outside, the chamber looks like an industrial-size freezer or a bank vault. But inside, the 8-foot-by-12-foot space is clearly not intended to store meat or money. A La-Z-Boy recliner faces a wall alternately flashing giant X's and O's beamed in by projector. Behind the chair stand two narrow tables topped with an infrared keyboard, vital-signs monitors, and a sleek red cap of electrodes attached to multicolored wires. No noise gets in or out, as special insulation blocks even the electrical signals emitted by lights. [ MORE ]


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Shutsung Liao, PhD'61; Philip Eaton; Nicholas Christaskis; Chun-Su Yuan; Chung-I Wu.
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