3 days ago · Since his years as a Caltech graduate student, Ralph Adolphs (PhD ’93) has wanted to learn how the biological brain produces the intangible mind, what the mind’s basic elements …

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Graduate and undergraduate students in the physics option may undertake research and classwork in other departments and divisions at Caltech. Areas with especially strong …