​​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

​Taro Yang

Taro is a postdoctoral researcher in MindCORE and received her PhD in Psychology from The Ohio State University. She combines process-tracing tools and computational modeling to understand the role of attention and memory in decision making. Outside of research, Taro enjoys playing board games, spending time with her cat, and traveling around the world.

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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, he enjoys spending time with his bunny and exploring 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 choices 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.

 
​Jacob 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.

​To visit Jake's personal website, click here. 

 

 
​Mu-Chen Wang

Mu-Chen is a visiting scholar currently completing her PhD in Neuroscience at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. Her research focuses on belief updating and decision-making in dynamic and uncertain environments, combining computational modeling, behavioral experiments, and neuroimaging. Outside of research, she tries her best to keep her houseplants alive and to master the art of producing edible meals with maximal time efficiency.

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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, investigating speech errors. Outside of research, he enjoys watching movies, studying his genealogy, and looking at license plates.

​To visit Nikhil's personal website, click here. 

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Research Assistants and Independent Study Students

Leo Li (MBDS Research Assistant)
Kristen Li (Undergraduate Independent Study)
Sarah Garrison (Undergraduate Independent Study)
Dana Bahng (Undergraduate Independent Study)
Stacey Serrano (Undergraduate FERBS Fellow)
Malika Tillaeva (Undergraduate MindCORE Summer 2025 Fellow)