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Primary Investigator: Joe Kable, Ph.D.
Joe Kable is the Baird Term Professor of Psychology at Penn and Director of MindCORE (Penn's hub for the integrative study of the mind). For a copy of Dr. Kable’s CV, click here. To visit Dr. Kable’s Faculty webpage, click here. To access Dr. Kable's Google Scholar page, click here. |
Postdoctoral Fellows
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Michael Cohen Michael is interested in interactions between reward, memory, and decision-making, how people assess and control their own knowledge (metamemory), and how these processes change with aging. Much of his past work at UCLA and Northwestern University contrasted direct, reward-driven enhancement of memory, believed to be stimulated by dopamine in the midbrain, with strategic approaches to remembering important information that sometimes but do not always overlap with these effects. In the Kable Lab, he is working on a project related to how memory for social and non-social stimuli affects trust and decision-making related to those stimuli. He is also developing work tying age-related changes to reward and memory systems with potential age-related increases in vulnerability to political misinformation in the real world. www.michaelscohen.net |
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Kenji Kobayashi
Kenji Kobayashi is from Yokohama, Japan. He completed his PhD in Neuroscience at University of California, Berkeley, and received postdoctoral training at Columbia University before joining the Kable Lab. Under the supervision of Joe Kable and Anna Jenkins, he is investigating neurocognitive mechanisms of information seeking in the service of value-based decision making. He is also working on a project examining the causal role of TPJ in decision making in collaboration with the Oathes Lab. |
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Karolina Lempert
Karolina completed her Ph.D. in psychology at New York University, and her B.A. in neurobiology at Harvard University. Her current research focuses on the neural and psychological mechanisms that underlie individual differences in value-based decision-making. She is especially interested in how our episodic memories affect our decisions about the future, and how this might change as we age. Outside of the lab, Karolina likes to, well, make decisions about the future, by planning lab activities, like trivia and karaoke. She also likes to read and discuss fiction, watch TV dramas, and try new workouts. www.karolinalempert.com |
Graduate Students
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Min Su Kang
Min is a Ph.D. student in Clinical Psychology, and received her bachelor’s degree from Duke University. After graduating, she completed her master’s at Harvard University and worked as a research assistant at McLean Hospital. Min’s interests focus on the neural processes underlying value-based decision making, and how they may be altered across mood disorders. When she is not in the lab, she enjoys baking macarons and walking her dog all around Philadelphia. |
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Camilla Van Geen Camilla is a PhD student in Psychology and received her Bachelor's Degree in Neuroscience and Philosophy from Columbia University. She is interested in both how memories guide the choices we make and in how the choice we make shape our memories. Outside the lab, she enjoys thinking about adopting a cat, reading poetry and non-fiction, and, more recently, compulsively checking the news. |
Research Specialists
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Frances M. Reckers Fran graduated from Swarthmore College with a bachelor’s degree with Honors in Neuroscience. Her research interests are in social and emotional developmental neuroscience/psychology. She is currently working on a project investigating the role of memory in social and non-social learning and decision making across adulthood. Outside of the lab, Fran is a member of the Board of Directors for Three Pillars Initiative and enjoys baking, gardening, and learning to play guitar and ukulele. |
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Laura Zaneski Laura earned her bachelor’s degree in Psychology with a minor in Cognitive Neuroscience from Temple University in 2018, and is now a Research Specialist for the Kable Lab at UPenn. She is broadly interested in how risk, social influence and digital media affect decision-making. Her current work is examining individual differences in explorative behaviors of late adolescents and its relationship with self-reported risk-taking and digital media use. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, playing video games with friends, making artwork and taking pictures of her cat. LinkedIn Profile |
Current Undergraduate Students
Ilyssa Delos Reyes
Alexandra Vlasenkova
Bema Boateng
Yifei Pei
