Adverse experiences in childhood, ranging from neglect to resource scarcity to abuse, alter developmental trajectories and increase risk for reward-related psychopathologies. In humans, exposure to …
How synaptic plasticity in-vivo manages diverse properties of biological neural networks remains poorly understood. My collaborators and I address this by examining basic models of …
Human teaching involves many forms of non-verbal behavior that unfold over the course of an interaction between a teacher and learner. Such processes facilitate the …
How do humans learn to adaptively function in a fundamentally uncertain social world? Since we cannot directly observe the contents of other people’s minds, the …