I am working with Dr. Monica Rosenberg at the Cognition, Attention, & Brain (CAB) Lab. I study how the mind and brain generate predictions about the world, how attention shapes those predictions, and what happens when expectations are violated. My work bridges cognitive neuroscience, behavioral science, and computational modeling in both naturalistic and controlled settings. Broadly, I’m interested in understanding the extent to which the mental states that precede (attention), accompany (surprise), and follow (learning) prediction are domain-general versus domain-specific—whether they operate similarly across contexts like learning, language, and social reasoning, and how these processes may vary across individuals and populations.

Before graduate school, I earned a B.S. in Neuroscience and an A.B. in Psychology from Duke University, where I worked with Dr. Tobias Egner to study the flexibility and boundaries of cognitive control. I’m passionate about testing theoretical frameworks in both well-controlled experimental tasks and ecologically valid, real-world paradigms to investigate the dynamics of human cognition.