Learning & Decision Making Lab
Our lab’s research focuses on human learning, memory, and decision-making.
55 million people
suffer from dementia worldwide.
Dementia has a devastating impact not only on thise with the condition, but on their families and loved ones too.
World Health Organization
We use a range of techniques to study these including behavioural experiments and computational modeling, especially with deep learning and signal detection models. Several strands of our research link closely to neuroscience, especially relating to amnesia and the role of the hippocampus in human cognition. Other strands have a strong applied focus, including our work on the benefits of retrieval practice for everyday learning.
Principal investigator
David Shanks, Professor of Psychology and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Brain Sciences
People
Dr. Daryl Lee, Research Fellow
Ariana Modirrousta-Galian, Research Fellow
Hemu Xu, PhD Student
Huaiyue Zhang, PhD Student