Dr. Kia Nobre

Biography

Kia Nobre is a Wu Tsai Professor in the Department of Psychology at Yale University. With a PhD from Yale in 1993, her research focuses on understanding the organizing principles of neural systems that support adaptive cognition and behavior in the human brain. Her current research group investigates how the brain anticipates, prioritizes, and selects information from sensory streams and memories across different time scales to shape psychological experiences that guide adaptive behavior. Nobre combines behavioral methods, including psychophysics, eye tracking, and virtual reality, with state-of-the-art non-invasive techniques, such as magneto- and electroencephalography, magnetic resonance imaging, and brain stimulation, to explore brain activity and performance. She is particularly interested in designing experimental frameworks that integrate psychological domains often studied in isolation, such as attention, working memory, and long-term memory, to examine the fine-grained modulation of psychological processes and brain activity that facilitate adaptive behavior in dynamic environments.

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