Current lab members

Kate Nussenbaum
she/her
Assistant Professor
katenuss@bu.edu

Kate is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University. She is interested in understanding how learning, memory, and decision-making systems change and shape adaptive behavior across development. Kate received an 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. When not doing research, she enjoys traveling, trying new restaurants, and watching TV, though these days her hobbies have been supplanted by tending to a demanding new roommate.

Ipek Obek
she/her
Lab Manager
iobek@bu.edu

Ipek recently graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied Cognitive Science with a concentration in computation and cognition, and minored in Data Science and Computational Neuroscience. She is broadly interested in how we learn from our experiences, make decisions, and form judgments, as well as how these processes can be formalized through computational models of the mind. At the Computation, Learning, & Development Lab, she supports projects investigating how learning and decision-making evolve across development, with a particular focus on how children and adults infer what to learn, when to explore, and how to adapt in changing environments.

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