​Primary Investigator: Joe Kable, Ph.D.

Joe Kable is Jean-Marie Kneeley President’s Distinguished Professor at Penn and Director of MindCORE (Penn's hub for the integrative study of the mind). 
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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. 

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Postdoctoral Fellows

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Lauren Patrick

Lauren is affiliated with the Wharton Neuroscience Initiative and the Department of Psychology. She received her PhD from Yale University under the mentorship of Avram Holmes. Her research examines the physiological underpinnings of decision making and goal pursuit with the aim of improving wellbeing and performance.

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Graduate Students

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​Christian Benitez

Christian is a PhD student in Psychology and received his Bachelor’s Degree in Neuroscience and Psychology from Duke University. He is interested in individual differences in decision making, specifically the role that scarcity and socioeconomic factors influence this process. When not in the lab, I enjoy spending time with my bunny or exploring and walking around everything Philly has to offer!

​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.

​Jake Parker

Jake is a Neuroscience PhD student using computational, behavioral, and neural approaches to study how people balance performance against limited cognitive resources when making decisions. A DC area native, he obtained a B.S. in Neuroscience from New York University then spent four years as a post-baccalaureate research fellow at the NIH before coming to Penn. In his free time, Jake enjoys Olympic-style weightlifting, photography, making coffee, spending time with friends, and learning new things.

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Research Specialists

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Nikhil Lakhani

Nikhil is the current Lab Manager at Kable Lab. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Cognitive Science and Linguistics at Penn, and wrote his Honors Thesis on pronoun processing with advisor Florian Schwarz. After graduating, he worked in Bonnie Nozari's lab at Carnegie Mellon University, where he examined the neural correlates of inhibitory control in linguistic and sensorimotor tasks. Outside of research, he enjoys watching movies, studying his genealogy, and looking at license plates.

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Research Assistants and Independent Study Students

Sage Leland
Kristen Li
Sarah Garrison

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