Psychology

Work done in the Kurzban lab investigates evolved computational mechanisms designed to navigate the social world. Here, social network structure is used to test ideas about the function of human friendship mechanisms.

Members of the Kahana Lab have found that brain oscillations associated with successful encoding are reinstated during retrieval.

People differ in the degree to which they will choose larger, delayed rewards over smaller, immediate ones. Joe Kable and colleagues have found that activity in specific parts of the brain, striatum and medial prefrontal cortex, reflects the subjective value that particular person places on future rewards.