Cognitive Neurogenetics Lab

How does the world get into our heads? Our goal is to understand the interrelationship between our social environment and our brains. We study this question by treating the brain as fundamentally biosocial—an organ whose organization emerges from continuous interactions between genetic factors and social-environmental experience across the lifespan.

We investigate how brain regions enable interaction with our social world, how we change and adapt to our social environment, and how these insights translate to clinical practice and outreach. Our work integrates ultra-high-resolution neuroimaging, evolutionary biology, computational modeling, and global population neuroscience.