Overview

Apoorva Bhandari is an Assistant Professor (Research) at the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences at Brown University, where his research program focuses on understanding the psychological, computational and neural principles that govern human flexible cognition and applying these principles outside the laboratory, particularly in educational settings. He is particularly interested in studying the nature of neural representations of diverse forms of knowledge employing behavioural methods, functional MRI, computational modelling and machine learning. His work addresses questions from a broad range of topics including fluid intelligence, learning & generalization, cognitive control, cognitive maps, and social decision-making, Apoorva completed his undergraduate training in biochemistry and molecular biology from India before taking a Master’s degree in neuroscience from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in cognitive neuroscience from the University of Cambridge working with John Duncan. Grants from the National Institutes of Mental Health and the National Science Foundation fund his research.

Brown Affiliations

• Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences

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