RESEARCH

Why study the environment?

Famed psychologist, Kurt Lewin, stressed that human behavior is a function of both the person and the environment. The following is known as Lewin’s equation:

Behavior = ƒ(Person, Environment)

In accordance with Lewin’s idea, our research centers around understanding the relationship between individual psychological and neural processing and environmental factors. In our lab, we utilize brain imaging techniques, computational neuroscience, and statistical models to quantify the person, the environment and their interactions. Our belief that an integrative approach is critical to understanding human behavior lies at the heart of our work.

Our ongoing projects use some of the following techniques to quantify…

The Person                                                            The Environment

fMRI

fNIRs

Health Databases

Convolutional Neural Networks