Category: Lab News

Congratulations to Jamie Chiu and Branson Byers for passing their Generals exams!!!

Welcome to Ella Tuominen, who is visiting us this semester and is a graduate student from UCL!

Woohoo! Our new Conte Center on Understanding Latent Cause Inference in Health and Illness is officially awarded! This is a joint Center involving 10 faculty at Princeton and Rutgers Universities, to study the role of latent cause inference in mental health, with Yael as Director of the Center.

We will miss you Kepler, good luck!!

We are excited to welcome Deepta Chandrasekhar as our lab manager!

Congratulations to Dr. Oded Bein for starting his new position as Faculty of Psychology in Psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical School! We will miss you…

Congratulations to Dan-Mircea Mirea for giving a data blitz talk titled “Individuals with depression show heightened sensitivity to social media rewards” at the SPSP Psychology of Media & Technology Preconference 2024 ! Dan also gave a poster with the same title at the main SPSP conference.

Goodbye Ellie, we will miss you! Good luck with the rest of grad school! Once finished, Ellie will join the lab once again as a postdoc. 

Congratulations to Eleanor Holton, who won the 2023 Niv Lab Challenge!

Congratulations to Rachel Bedder, Nadav Amir, Eleanor Holton, and Seohyun Moon, who presented at the Princeton Symposium on Biological and Artificial Intelligence! Rachel presented a poster on ‘Rumination as State Inference’, Nadav presented a poster on ‘States as goal directed concepts’, Eleanor presented a poster titled, ‘Humans and neural networks show similar patterns of transfer and…

Congratulations to Gili Karni and Dan-Mircea Mirea for passing their Generals exams with flying colors!

Welcome to Eleanor Holton (Ellie), who’s visiting as a grad student from Oxford!

Welcome to our three new RAs, Kepler Palacio-Soto, Jialing Ding and Seohyun Moon. We’re excited to have you join us!

Congratulations to our summer interns, Hollen Knoell, Isabella Fernandez, Julie Abaci, Andrea Mullin, and Andrew Kyo for completing their summer internships! We’re excited to see what you do next and can’t wait to see your posters!

Goodbye to Nastasia, we will miss you! Good luck with grad school! 

Congratulations to everyone who participated in the 2023 Computational Psychiatry Conference! Isabel Berwian gave a talk on ‘Using computational models to understand psychotherapy interventions effects’ and Yael Niv gave a tutorial on ‘Reinforcement learning and bayesian approaches’ and a keynote. Dan-Mircea Mirea presented a poster on ‘Computational psychiatry in the wild: depression affects reinforcement learning on social…

Rachel Bedder’s conference paper “Modelling Rumination as a State-Inference Process” will be presented as a talk at CogSci 2023 in Sydney in July! Congratulations Rachel, we’re excited to see you share your work!

Congratulations to Oded Bein, who presented a poster at LEARNMEM 2023, titled “Altered event segmentation in anxiety and schizotypy”!