AboutAs we experience the world, our brains encode statistical regularities between events and their outcomes as probabilistic “beliefs.” We rely on these beliefs to organize new information, optimize behavior, and navigate an uncertain world. When signals weaken and uncertainty grows, we come to rely on our beliefs with greater and greater weight.
Our lab seeks to understand how higher-order socioecological environments influence belief formation and how these beliefs are then integrated with sensory information to influence behavior and subjective experience. We use machine learning, neuroimaging (especially fMRI), psychophysiology (SCR, heart rate, pupil dilation, etc), behavioral measures, naturalistic datasets, and large online studies to answer these questions. |
AnnouncementsJan 12, 2026
✧Our lab has moved to the Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging in the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Glasgow! More updates to come as we move through this exciting transition.
Nov 20, 2025
✧The DANA Foundation generously awarded our laboratory bridge funding in response to unexpected changes at the NIH.
Jan 1, 2025
✧Our lab won an Einstein 2030 Seed Fund to build learning models of pain. This grant was generously supported by an anonymous donor.
✧Our lab won an IMPOWR-ME pilot award (part of NIH/HEAL) to explore how memories of positive and negative experiences influence neural responses to evoked pain in people with chronic pain and opioid use disorder (OUD).
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