Lab news



Congrats, Karen and Luis!

Ipek Obek
15 April 2026

Congratulations to Karen, recipient of the Clara Mayo Memorial Fellowship, and Luis, recipient of the Ronald L. Vanden Bossche Scholarship, for their outstanding achievements!


Welcome, Jeffery!

Ipek Obek
03 April 2026

Jeffery joins the lab as our new undergraduate research assistant!


Past & upcoming talks

Kate Nussenbaum
25 February 2026

Last week, Kate gave departmental colloquia here at BU and at the University of New Hampshire.

Coming up: Kate will be speaking in the workshop, “Algorithms from Learning from Scratch”, at COSYNE in Cascais, Portugal and the workshop, “Towards a unified account of motivation in development” at the Cognitive Development Society in Montreal. Come say hi!

Cascais, Portugal


Concord Academy visit

Kate Nussenbaum
09 February 2026

Kate visits two neuroscience classes at her alma mater, Concord Academy, to talk about value-guided learning in the brain.

Concord Academy's main academic building


Congrats, Jennifer!

Kate Nussenbaum
22 January 2026

Congratulations to our undergraduate RA Jennifer, who won a UROP award to support her research in the lab this spring!