Nick Browne

PhD

Nick Browne

PhD

About me
Nick Turk-Browne is a Professor of Psychology and the 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 behavioral studies, brain imaging, intracranial recording/stimulation, computational modeling, and machine learning 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 pioneering 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, James S. McDonnell Foundation, and others. 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), and he serves as a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (since 2016).

ISCN 2022 Speaker Highlight - Nick Browne

The Two-Way Street Between Cognitive And Clinical Neuroscience
Nick Browne, PhD

Dramatic advances in our understanding of how the human brain powers cognition are fueling new translational opportunities. At the same time, patient populations and disorders are revealing deep insights about the healthy mind and brain.