Brain & Cognition Lab

The Brain & Cognition Lab is a scientific research group at Yale University headed by Kia Nobre. We use human neuroscience methods to investigate how the brain makes sense out of the energy signals in the world to construct cohesive and meaningful experience in our minds and guide adaptive behavior.

Members of the lab come from multiple generations and across the globe. We join our backgrounds and expertise to crack the mystery of human cognition. Our research is funded by national and international granting agencies, foundations, and philanthropy.

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New preprint alert!
September 18, 2025 – Unlike typical laboratory tasks, in everyday life people decide for themselves when and how much to use their working memory (WM). In this new preprint, Levi, Kia, Dejan & collaborators explored whether people’s tendency to rely …
Irene is awarded the Franke Fellowship
September 9, 2025 – Congratulations to B&C postdoc, Irene Echeverria-Altuna! Irene was awarded the Franke Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the Franke Program for Science and Humanities. The Franke Program aims to foster communication, mutual understanding, collaborative research and teaching among …
Kia inaugurates the CAVE at BrainWorks
September 8, 2025 – The Wu Tsai Institute and BrainWorks have officially opened the cave automatic virtual environment (CAVE), an immersive virtual reality environment. The B&C lab is excited to use this fascinating new tool for naturalistic experiments integrating behavior …
Onto new pastures
August 31, 2025 – The end of the summer marks the departure and new beginnings for three beloved B&C lab members: Dani Gresch, Diana Wei, and Pranava Dhar. Dani has begun a research fellowship at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich …
Melinda’s new paper in Communications Psychology
August 26, 2025 – Melinda has published her last PhD project in Communications Psychology. Her article, titled “Processing in working memory boosts long-term memory representations and their retrieval“ explores the interactions between working memory and long-term memory. In the fields …
New Preprint Alert!
July 28, 2025 – Thinking of running VR studies remotely but not sure where to start? In this tutorial, Levi, Kia, Dejan & lab alumni give an overview on how to collect VR data from remote participants using Unity and …