Nick Turk-Browne

Yale University

Nick Turk-Browne is Professor in the Department of Psychology and Director of the Wu Tsai Institute at Yale University. He previously served on the faculty at Princeton University (2009-2017). He obtained an HBSc from the University of Toronto (2004) and a PhD from Yale University (2009). His research takes an integrative perspective, using behavioural studies, brain imaging, intracranial recording/stimulation, and computational modelling to understand how cognitive and neural systems interact. He has published extensively on the interaction between perception (how we experience the world) and memory (how we draw upon past experiences), including the learning mechanisms that transform perception into memory and the attention mechanisms that regulate this transformation. Most recently, his lab has been developing techniques for brain imaging in awake infants and toddlers. His work has been published in journals such as Science, Nature Neuroscience, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic. He has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Templeton Foundation, James S. McDonnell Foundation, and Intel Labs. He received Young Investigator Awards from the Vision Sciences Society (2016), Cognitive Neuroscience Society (2017), and Society of Experimental Psychologists (2018), and the Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology from the American Psychological Association (2015). He is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (since 2016).

Email: nicholas.turk-browne@yale.edu
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