The HaML Lab started in Fall 2023 in the Psychology Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

  • We study how the brain uses cognitive maps to make sense of the world and guide decision making.
  • Cognitive maps, which organize structured knowledge, are thought to be critical for learning of the concepts and schemas that help us understand our world.
  • We use a combination of model simulations, learning task, and neuroimaging to study how the brain forms and retrieves information from cognitive maps.
  • Our work has implications for understanding human learning, illuminating causes of cognitive disorders, and improving machine learning methods.

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