Professor
Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
Carney Institute for Brain Science at Brown University

Email: david_badre@brown.edu; curriculum vitae

Website: https://vivo.brown.edu/display/dbadre

Investigator

Email: apoorva_bhandari@brown.edu; curriculum vitae

Research Interests: I am broadly interested in understanding the neural and computational basis of flexible human cognition. My work addresses questions from a broad range of topics including fluid intelligence, working memory, learning & generalization, cognitive control, and social decision making, employing behavioral methods, functional MRI, computational modeling and machine learning. I’m currently investigating the role of neural representational geometry in enabling flexible cognition, with a particular focus on prefrontal cortex representations of task information.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Email: olga_lositsky@brown.edu; curriculum vitae

Research Interests: I am interested in how we learn to represent new tasks and how the way in which we structure our memories reflects our assumptions about the world and influences how we generalize our knowledge to new situations. Using psychophysics and computational modeling, I am testing under which conditions people combine their experiences to form general representations that apply to various contexts, as opposed to forming representations that are context-specific. Using fMRI, I hope to investigate how complementary learning systems in the brain (such as the medial temporal memory system and prefrontal / basal ganglia circuits) regulate this trade-off.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Email: atsushi_kikumoto@brown.edu; curriculum vitae

Research Interests: I am interested in the dynamic process in which control-related representations are shaped to achieve flexible behavior. I hope to investigate how we generate and link abstract knowledge to specific action contexts in working memory.

Graduate Student 

Email: haley_keglovits@brown.edu; website 

Research Interests: I am interested in how the brain formats information as it guides difficult cognitive processes like multitasking. Using fMRI and behavioral data, I hope to create testable computational models that further our understanding of what enables the amazing flexibility of the human mind.

Graduate Student

Email: ziqi_zhao1@brown.edu

Research Interests: I am interested in how people adapt or transfer control policies learned from one context to another. I am using both neural and computational methods to investigate the underlying mechanisms that support the learning and adapting cognitive control.

Email: sarah_mughal@brown.edu