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Brain connectivity and letting the data speak with Emily Finn

The Dartmouth College researcher talks about her quest to understand behavior and doing neuroscience “in the woods.”

By Brady Huggett

1 May 2024 | 1 min read

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Emily Finn is assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences at Dartmouth College. In this episode of “Synaptic,” Finn talks about how linguistics led her to study the brain, and how she set up her lab during the COVID-19 shutdown of 2020.

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Synaptic, Brain imaging, fMRI, Language, Methods

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