A new LCI Conte Center paper is out! Research in the Witten lab shows how “one-shot learning”, where a single experience with food poisoning, creates a lasting memory in rodents. This might explain how similar memories can form in people, such as when a single traumatic event leads to PTSD, potentially informing future clinical treatments in…

Dr. Augustin Hennings, a postdoctoral fellow in the Norman and Niv labs at Princeton University, has been awarded a National Research Service Award (NRSA) from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). This prestigious two-year fellowship will support Dr. Hennings' innovative research on "Using latent cause modeling and neurofeedback to…

The first LCI Conte Center paper is out! Research is the Niv lab shows that  humans incorporate time in their inference of latent causes, such that recently inferred latent causes are more likely to be inferred again. They present a novel task in which participants see “microbe” stimuli and explicitly report the latent cause (“strain”)…

A Princeton-led collaboration with Rutgers has been awarded a $16 million federal grant to enhance the understanding of mental health disorders through the lens of computational psychiatry.