Psychology
Director, Notre Dame Human Neuroimaging Center; Andrew J. McKenna Family Professor of Psychology
Inside Indiana Business
April 09, 2026
The University of Notre Dame’s College of Arts & Letters is launching the Human Neuroimaging Center, a new research hub led by psychologist Aron Barbey aimed at studying how brain networks shape human intelligence, health and behavior.
Wired
March 10, 2026
"Neuroscience has had some success in explaining the role of specific networks, but it has not been able to explain how their interactions emerge into a single intelligence," explains Aaron Barbey, a professor of psychology at the University of Notre Dame. "So the fundamental question remains: how do distributed networks communicate and collectively process information?"
The Debrief
March 10, 2026
“The problem of intelligence is not one of functional localization,” co-author and director of the Notre Dame Human Neuroimaging Center, Dr. Aron Barbey, said in a press release. “But the more fundamental question is how intelligence emerges from the principles that govern global brain function — how distributed networks communicate and collectively process information.”
Futurity
March 03, 2026
“Neuroscience has been very successful at explaining what particular networks do, but much less successful at explaining how a single, coherent mind emerges from their interaction,” says Aron Barbey, a professor of psychology in the University of Notre Dame’s psychology department.
Al Jazeera
February 20, 2026
A recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, led by researchers from the University of Notre Dame, provides evidence that intelligence is not a trait confined to a specific region, but rather the product of a comprehensive and dynamic architecture that encompasses the entire brain.
PsyPost
February 09, 2026
Ramsey R. Wilcox, a researcher at the University of Notre Dame, led the study to test the specific predictions of this network theory. Working with senior author Aron K. Barbey and colleagues from the University of Illinois and Stony Brook University, Wilcox sought to move beyond localized models. The team aimed to understand how the brain’s physical structure constrains and directs its functional activity.
SciTechDaily
January 28, 2026
“Neuroscience has been very successful at explaining what particular networks do, but much less successful at explaining how a single, coherent mind emerges from their interaction,” said Aron Barbey, the Andrew J. McKenna Family Professor of Psychology in Notre Dame’s Department of Psychology.
Medical Xpress
January 27, 2026
"Neuroscience has been very successful at explaining what particular networks do, but much less successful at explaining how a single, coherent mind emerges from their interaction," said Aron Barbey, the Andrew J. McKenna Family Professor of Psychology in Notre Dame's Department of Psychology.