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. Want to support us? Donate to our research funds here! |
AnnouncementsJan 1, 2025
✧We ended this year with much to celebrate! Our lab just won an Einstein 2030 Seed Fund to build learning models of pain.
✧Our lab won a pilot award 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).
This award is provided by the Integrated Care for Chronic Pain and Opioid Use Disorder (IMPOWR) Research Center (IMPOWR)
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