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Our mission is to understand how motivations  change brain biology and shape learning.

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We use our science to support well-being, achievement, and human flourishing.

 

Our research has shown that motivations to comprehend, predict, and shape the world are biological and mental phenomena.​

• dynamic neural contexts that influence memory formation

• emerging from momentary changes in molecular traffic across brain architecture

• regulated by memories and prior experiences

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The neural networks we study are common targets for medicines. By understanding how to use behavior to change biology, we can engineer environments and our own mindsets, tuning brain function precisely to the demands of a given learning problem.  

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By changing people's motivational states, we have uncovered new brain mechanisms of memory, and new tools for self-regulation, learning and behavioral therapies safe enough for early intervention.

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