Erie Boorman
Assistant Professor, Center for Mind and Brain and Department of Psychology
Director, Learning and Decision Making Lab
edboorman at ucdavis.edu

Seongmin A. Park
Assistant Project Scientist, Center for Mind and Brain and Center for Neuroscience
seongmin.a.park at gmail.com

Research Interests:
The aim of my research is to understand how brains generalize previous experiences, construct structural knowledge, and make a novel decision. My research approach combines behavioral economics, neuroimaging (fMRI and EEG), and computational modeling. 

Lily Zhang
Graduate Student​, Department of Psychology
lczhang at ucdavis.edu

Degree:  B.A. Colgate University. 
Mathematical Economics & Behavioral Neuroscience
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Research Interests: 
​Neural mechanisms in reinforcement learning. Neuroeconomics. Decision-making regulated by emotions. 

Sarah​ Sweigart
Graduate Student, Department of Psychology
ssweigart at ucdavis.edu​

Degree: Psychology and Economics​

Research Interests:
 Studying the neural mechanisms of value judgments, learning, risky decisions, and memory.​

Phillip Witkowski
Graduate Student, Department of Psychology
​pwitkowski at ucdavis.edu

Degree: B.A. Psychology / B.A. Anthropology

Primary Academic Interests: The neural mechanisms the underlie causal learning, information sampling and visual attention
Secondary Academic Interest: Anthropology and philosophy of science
Hobbies: Traditional archery, Dungeons and Dragons, listening to metal.

Carlos Carrasco 
Graduate Student, Neuroscience Graduate Group, Department of Psychology
cdcarrasco at ucdavis.edu 

Degree: B.S. Neuroscience 

Primary Academic Interests: Neural Mechanisms of decision making, memory, and causal learning.
Hobbies: Guitar, skateboarding, watching youtube, hanging out with friends. 

Undergraduate Research Assistants:
Tomer Fidelman
Nam Nguyen
Hailey Sasaki
Mia Fagan
Anastasia Leones
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