An independent research institute dedicated to understanding how people perceive, decide, remember, and relate — and what that means for the world we build together.
We study the human mind as it actually works — noisy, social, and embodied — across neuroscience, cognition, and behaviour. Our findings are open, our methods are rigorous, and our purpose is to make the science of being human useful.
Our work spans the brain, the mind, and the social world — but it always comes back to a few enduring questions about how people think and act.
Imaging and computational work on perception, attention, and the neural basis of conscious experience.
02 — Judgment & DecisionThe architecture of human decision-making — risk, value, bias, and the limits of rationality.
03 — Developmental ScienceLongitudinal study of how children come to reason, speak, and understand other people.
04 — Social & Affective ScienceEmotion, cooperation, trust, and the psychology of groups, identity, and belonging.
05 — Computational ModellingFormal and computational models of cognition that make precise, testable predictions.
06 — Language & CognitionHow language is learned, processed, and how it scaffolds reasoning and memory.
07 — Anomalous CognitionA rigorous, skeptical program putting extraordinary claims — precognition, telepathy-like effects — to the strictest methodological test we have.
A small, international community of researchers and fellows who share data, argue hard, and publish in the open.