Recent News
january 2025
Dr. Neta won the PECASE Award!
This is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers.
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March 2024
Dr. Neta, Dr. Harp, and the lab managers enjoyed their time at a conference for the Society for Affective Science in New Orleans!
April 15, 2022
Dr. Nick Harp successfully defended his PhD dissertation
March 30, 2022
Dr. Neta and Nick Harp featured on Nebraska Today for their research on meditation and positivity
Read MoreApril 2021
Dr. Neta featured on "She's a Scientist" video series
Featured on UNL's homepage and 10/11 5PM News
Watch HereNovember 15, 2018
Dr. Neta featured on Nebraska Public Media Radio
New research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln shows older adults have greater motivation to experience positivity than young adults. NET's Brandon McDermott speaks with researcher Maital Neta about what the research shows as well as what this could mean to people as they age.
Read MoreDecember 1, 2017
Dr. Neta and Catie Brown featured on Nebraska Today
Surprise! Researchers explore links between stress, decision making
Read ArticleAPRIL 2024
Dr. Johannah Bashford-Largo successfully defends her thesis!
April 28, 2023
Dr. Neta and Nick Harp featured on Nebraska Today for their research on combatting loneliness-based negativity
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August 25, 2019
Concussion Close-Up: Take a look at concussions and how head injuries can impact the brain
Read MoreOct 23, 2018
Neuroscientists Find That It's Easier to Be a Pessimist - Motherboard/VICE Media
Read MoreJuly 3, 2018
Dr. Neta and CAN Lab Members featured on Nebraska Today
Project explores why aging brains stay on the sunny side
Read ArticleApril 22, 2016
Dr. Neta featured on Nebraska Today
Are you positive? It may depend on where you look
Read Articleaugust 4, 2014
Open for business!
The Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab opens in the Department of Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lab director Maital Neta is joining the department this summer from St. Louis, MO, where she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Petersen Lab, in the Department of Neurology at Washington University School of Medicine. The CAN Lab is based in the Department of Psychology but is also affliated with the Systems Biology of Social Behavior Initiative, and the Center for Brain, Biology, and Behavior.
