One question, pursued from every angle: how does the mind work?

Cognitive Neuroscience

We use neuroimaging, electrophysiology, and computational analysis to ask how the brain constructs perception, attention, and the felt sense of being a self. Our wet labs and a shared 3T MRI facility support work from single-neuron models to whole-brain dynamics.

Judgment & Decision

Why do smart people make predictable mistakes? We map the architecture of human decision-making — how we weigh risk and value, when deliberation helps and when it hurts, and how choices shift across contexts and cultures.

Developmental Science

How do children come to reason about a world full of other minds? Through longitudinal and cross-cultural studies, we trace how language, social understanding, and reasoning emerge — and how early environments shape them.

Social & Affective Science

People are not solitary thinkers. We study emotion, cooperation, trust, and identity — how groups form and fracture, how feelings guide reasoning, and how the social world gets under the skin.

Computational Modelling

A theory you can't run is a theory you can't test. We build formal and computational models of cognition — from Bayesian inference to neural networks — that make precise, falsifiable predictions about behaviour.

Language & Cognition

Language is the medium of much of human thought. We study how it is learned and processed, and how it scaffolds reasoning, memory, and our ability to coordinate with others.

Anomalous Cognition

Our most unusual program asks a serious question with an open mind and a hard edge: when people report experiences that seem to defy what we know about perception and time — precognition, telepathy-like effects — what is actually going on? We treat these claims not as beliefs to defend or debunk, but as an unusually demanding test of our own methods. Pre-registration, adversarial collaboration, and Bayesian analysis are the whole point.