How do our predictions, observations and emotions shape how we learn, what we remember, and how we act in our changing world?

The Interactive Cognition Lab uses an interdisciplinary framework, drawing from computational neuroscience, cognitive science and psychology, to uncover how learning and memory processes guide individual and interactive behavior in the laboratory and real world.

They apply computational modeling to a rich set of measures, including large-scale behavioral studies, real-world social interactions, and neuroimaging (fMRI). The lab further leverages natural language processing and machine learning to wrangle multidimensional data. The lab is broadly exploring the following interrelated questions:

1. What role does long-term memory (e.g., episodic and semantic) play in reinforcement learning?
2. How does individual learning and memory scale up to support social and collective cognition, including representations of other people and shared events?
3. Does mental health predict cognitive biases that underlie clinically-relevant symptoms?

Key Research Areas:

Reinforcement Learning, Memory, Emotions, Computational Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Psychology, Computational Psychiatry