Kate Nussenbaum
Assistant Professor; developmental cognitive neuroscience, learning, memory, decision-making, computational modeling
- Title Assistant Professor; developmental cognitive neuroscience, learning, memory, decision-making, computational modeling
- Education Sc.B. in Cognitive Neuroscience from Brown University, an MSc in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford, and a Ph.D. in Psychology from NYU. She completed postdoctoral training at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute before returning to her home state of MA to launch the lab in 2025.
Research in the Computation, Learning, and Development Lab focuses on understanding developmental changes in value-guided learning, memory, and exploration from childhood to early adulthood. By combining novel behavioral tasks with fMRI and computational modeling, we address questions about how, across development, people adapt their learning processes to the demands of varied contexts. How do children, adolescents, and adults learn about the structure of the environment and then use that structured knowledge to guide subsequent learning and decision-making? How do ‘learning to learn’ processes shape behavior over multiple timescales of experience?
Lab website: https://cldlab.org