The Brain & Cognition Laboratory is a cognitive neuroscience research group at Yale University headed by Anna Christina (Kia) Nobre. Our group is made up of ~25 postdoctoral fellows and graduate and undergraduate students from around the globe. We were previously based at the University of Oxford (1994-2023), where many lab members are still based. Our transatlantic group is spread across the Wu Tsai Institute and the Department of Psychology at Yale, and the Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity (OHBA) and the Department of Experimental Psychology at Oxford.
We have different research backgrounds and interests but come together in our curiosity to understand the workings of human cognition. How does the brain turn energies in the world to cohesive and meaningful experience in our minds? What are the principles linking brain and mind that can help guide prevention and treatment of mental and brain disorders? We take a rigorous scientific approach to address manageable chunks of these puzzles, drawing on the sharpest tools available to investigate brain, behaviour, and their interrelations. We especially enjoy forging conceptual innovation by designing new experimental approaches, refining methods, and integrating perspectives.
LATEST NEWS!
mArch 2024
Congratulations to Mats Van Es for placing third in the BRAINscapes Image Competition during the 2024 Oxford Neuroscience Symposium. Check out his submission here!
MARCH 2024
Welcome to our new postdoctoral research fellow, William Narhi-Martinez!
JANUARY 2024
HOT OFF THE PRESS:
Dani Gresch is leading our efforts to understand how we seamlessly shift attention between the contents in the world and in our minds to achieve our goals. Check out our first paper in Cognition: “Shifting attention between perception and working memory”. Let us know what you think!
JANUARY 2024
Welcome to our new undergraduate research member, Jiatong Li!
JANUARY 2024
Congratulations to Levi Kumle for receiving a Graduate Student Award by the Cognitive Neuroscience Society for their 2024 Conference in Toronto. Levi will be presenting their work using VR to track how people use sensory and memory signals to guide decisions and behavior in natural immersive settings.
NOVEMBER 2023
HUGE congratulations to B&C’s very own, Kia Nobre, for being recognized as the 2024 Fred Kavli Distinguished Career Contributions Awardee. She will accept this prestigious award and give a lecture at the 2024 CNS Conference in Toronto.
October 2023
Congratulations to Sage Boettcher who was just offered a Career Development Research Fellowship within the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford!
October 2023
Congratulations to Mats van Es for being awarded a WIN Seed Grant with Anna Guttesen for the project titled “Investigating the long-term trajectory of targeted memory reactivation using MEG and EEG”
October 2023
Congratulations to Mats van Es for receiving the MEG UKI Poster Prize for his project titled “Large-scale cortical networks are organized in structured cycles”. He will be presenting his work at the MEG UKI 2023 Conference in Dublin.