• Oct. 2025: New BD2 grant

    The lab has joined a Mount Sinai team that was awarded a Discovery Research Grant from the BD2 Foundation! ๐ŸŽ‰

  • Aug. 2025: Farewell Catherine!

    Farewell and thank you to Catherine Kim! Good luck in your new position at Matter Neuroscience!

  • June 2025: Lab at RLDM

    RLDM was a blast! Christina gave a talk and poster, Jing presented a poster and Angela gave a talk ๐Ÿ™Œ

  • Apr. 2025: Jackie and Jing present at SOBP 2025

    Several lab members attended and presented at SOBP in Toronto ๐Ÿ™‚

  • Aug. 2024: Christina and Jing will present at CCN 2024

    Congratulations Christina and Jing for paper acceptances at CCN 2024 in Boston! ๐Ÿ™Œ

  • July 2024: Jing presents at CogSci 2024

    Congratulations Jing on presenting his paper on dynamic self-efficacy and mania at CogSci 2024 in Rotterdam!

  • July 2024: Tutorials at CPC 2024 and SRNDNA workshop

    Angela is giving RL tutorials at CPC and SRNDNA.

  • Dec. 2023: New paper on affect, attention and generalization

    Angelaโ€™s paper on affect-congruent attention and value-based generalization is out.

  • July 2023: Jackie and Jing present at CPC 2023

    Two of our lab members, Jackie Beltraฬn and Jing Li, presented posters at the first Computational Psychiatry Conference in Dublin, Ireland.

  • June 2023: Welcome Jing Li!

    We are happy to welcome Jing Li, who is joining the lab as a graduate student!

  • Dec. 2022: Modeling immersive visual search using RL

    In a new preprint, we show how to use reinforcement learning to model decisions about where to look in immersive VR environments.

  • Nov. 2022: We're at SfN 2022!

    Christina Maher is presenting her work combining RL and human iEEG to ask how the brain learns in multidimensional environments.

  • Oct. 2022: Welcome Catherine Kim!

    We are excited to welcome Catherine Kim as our very first lab manager!

  • Sept. 1st, 2022: Lab launch

    The lab is officially open for business! ๐ŸŽ‰

  • July 2022: New paper on language and RL

    We were at CogSci 2022 to present some new data that suggests language information plays an important and perhaps surprising role in how humans learn from trial and error.

  • May 2022: Welcoming Christina Maher

    We are so happy to welcome Christina Maher as a graduate student in the lab!