Nick Turk-Browne, PhD
Susan Nolen-Hoeksema Professor of Psychology and in the Child Study Center and of Neurosurgery and of Psychiatry and Director of the Wu Tsai InstituteCards
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Susan Nolen-Hoeksema Professor of Psychology and in the Child Study Center and of Neurosurgery and of Psychiatry and Director of the Wu Tsai Institute
Biography
Nick Turk-Browne is Director of the Wu Tsai Institute and Professor with primary appointment in the Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and secondary appointments in the Departments of Neurosurgery and Psychiatry and the Child Study Center in the School of Medicine. He is also a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (since 2016). Nick obtained an HBSc from the University of Toronto in 2004 and a PhD from Yale University in 2009, then served on the faculty at Princeton University from 2009-2017. His research takes an integrative perspective, using behavioral studies, functional magnetic resonance imaging, intracranial recording/stimulation, and computational modeling to understand how cognitive and neural systems interact in the human brain. He has published extensively on how we perceive and attend to the world, and how we learn from experience and store information in memory. His lab has recently pioneered techniques for brain imaging in awake and behaving infants and toddlers. Nick's work has been published in leading journals and featured in major news outlets. His research has been funded by federal agencies, philanthropic foundations, and corporate partners. He received young investigator awards from the American Psychological Association (2015), Vision Sciences Society (2016), Cognitive Neuroscience Society (2017), and Society of Experimental Psychologists (2018), as well as the Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences (2025).
Last Updated on April 23, 2025.
Appointments
Department of Psychology
ProfessorPrimaryChild Study Center
ProfessorSecondaryNeurosurgery
ProfessorSecondaryPsychiatry
ProfessorSecondary
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Education & Training
- PhD
- Yale University, Cognitive Psychology (2009)
- BSc (Hon)
- University of Toronto, Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence (2004)
Research
Publications
2026
Publisher Correction: Revamping neuroimaging analysis to reveal biomarkers of adolescent mental health
Busch E, Turk-Browne N, Baskin-Sommers A. Publisher Correction: Revamping neuroimaging analysis to reveal biomarkers of adolescent mental health. Nature Mental Health 2026, 4: 688-688. DOI: 10.1038/s44220-026-00646-0.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchFunctional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Awake Infants: Insights From More Than 750 Scanning Sessions
Behm L, Yates T, Trach J, Choi D, Du H, Osumah C, Deen B, Kosakowski H, Chen E, Kamps F, Olson H, Ellis C, Saxe R, Turk‐Browne N. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Awake Infants: Insights From More Than 750 Scanning Sessions. Infancy 2026, 31: e70062. PMID: 41619204, DOI: 10.1111/infa.70062.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsFunctional magnetic resonance imagingFunctional magnetic resonance imaging sessionAwake infantsMagnetic resonance imagingStimulus contentFMRI dataScanning sessionExperimental paradigmResonance imagingSessionsMethodological challengesCognitionYaleParticipant recruitmentMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyStimuliBrainInfantsInfants aged 1ParticipantsParadigmFunctional dataYale UniversityExperimental designdGAMLSS: an exact, distributed algorithm to fit Generalized Additive Models for Location, Scale, and Shape for privacy-preserving population reference charts
Hu F, Tong J, Gardner M, Adamson C, Adler S, Alexander-Bloch A, Anagnostou E, Anderson K, Areces-Gonzalez A, Astle D, Auyeung B, Ayub M, Bae J, Ball G, Baron-Cohen S, Beare R, Bedford S, Benegal V, Bethlehem R, Beyer F, Blangero J, Cábez M, Boardman J, Borzage M, Bosch-Bayard J, Bourke N, Bullmore E, Calhoun V, Chakravarty M, Chen C, Chertavian C, Chetelat G, Chong Y, Corvin A, Costantino M, Courchesne E, Crivello F, Cropley V, Crosbie J, Crossley N, Delarue M, Delorme R, Desrivieres S, Devenyi G, Biase M, Dolan R, Donald K, Donohoe G, Dorfschmidt L, Dunlop K, Edwards A, Elison J, Ellis C, Elman J, Eyler L, Fair D, Fletcher P, Fonagy P, Franz C, Galan-Garcia L, Gholipour A, Giedd J, Gilmore J, Glahn D, Goodyer I, Grant P, Groenewold N, Gunning F, Gur R, Gur R, Hammill C, Hansson O, Hedden T, Heinz A, Henson R, Heuer K, Hoare J, Holla B, Holmes A, Huang H, Ipser J, Jack C, Jackowski A, Jia T, Jones D, Jones P, Kahn R, Karlsson H, Karlsson L, Kawashima R, Kelley E, Kern S, Kim K, Kitzbichler M, Kremen W, Lalonde F, Landeau B, Lerch J, Lewis J, Li J, Liao W, Liston C, Lombardo M, Lv J, Mallard T, Marcelis M, Mathias S, Mazoyer B, McGuire P, Meaney M, Mechelli A, Misic B, Morgan S, Mothersill D, Ortinau C, Ossenkoppele R, Ouyang M, Palaniyappan L, Paly L, Pan P, Pantelis C, Park M, Paus T, Pausova Z, Paz-Linares D, Binette A, Pierce K, Qian X, Qiu A, Raznahan A, Rittman T, Rodrigue A, Rollins C, Romero-Garcia R, Ronan L, Rosenberg M, Rowitch D, Salum G, Satterthwaite T, Schaare H, Schachar R, Schöll M, Schultz A, Seidlitz J, Sharp D, Shinohara R, Skoog I, Smyser C, Sperling R, Stein D, Stolicyn A, Suckling J, Sullivan G, Sun K, Thyreau B, Toro R, Traut N, Tsvetanov K, Turk-Browne N, Tuulari J, Tzourio C, Vachon-Presseau É, Valdes-Sosa M, Valdes-Sosa P, Valk S, van Amelsvoort T, Vandekar S, Vasung L, Vértes P, Victoria L, Villeneuve S, Villringer A, Vogel J, Wagstyl K, Wang Y, Warfield S, Warrier V, Westman E, Westwater M, Whalley H, White S, Witte A, Yang N, Yeo B, Yun H, Zalesky A, Zar H, Zettergren A, Zhou J, Ziauddeen H, Zimmerman D, Zugman A, Zuo X, Chen A, Bethlehem R, Seidlitz J, Li H, Alexander-Bloch A, Chen Y, Shinohara R. dGAMLSS: an exact, distributed algorithm to fit Generalized Additive Models for Location, Scale, and Shape for privacy-preserving population reference charts. Bioinformatics 2026, 42: btaf625. PMID: 41507058, PMCID: PMC12802883, DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaf625.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchThe Role of Rapid Eye Movement Sleep in Neural Differentiation of Memories in the Hippocampus
McDevitt E, Kim G, Turk-Browne N, Norman K. The Role of Rapid Eye Movement Sleep in Neural Differentiation of Memories in the Hippocampus. Journal Of Cognitive Neuroscience 2026, 38: 126-143. PMID: 40737528, PMCID: PMC12499895, DOI: 10.1162/jocn.a.82.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchRapid eye movement sleepRapid eye movementHippocampal representationsPredictive itemsPreregistered hypothesesUnrelated itemsRight DGRepresentation of memoryItem-specificEye movement sleepNeural representationNon-REM sleepEye movementsAssociate itemsFamiliar situationsMovement sleepNon-REMHippocampal differentiationHippocampal ROIDifferential effectsMemoryHippocampusHippocampalSleepItems
2025
Hippocampal and cortical contributions to statistical learning
Zhou I, Turk-Browne N. Hippocampal and cortical contributions to statistical learning. Current Opinion In Neurobiology 2025, 95: 103136. PMID: 41289978, DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2025.103136.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsStatistical learningHippocampal-cortical interactionsEntrainment of neural oscillationsBrain mechanismsNeural basisNeural representationCortical regionsVisual sequencesAuditory sequencesCortical contributionNeural oscillationsHuman brainHippocampusLearningBrainRegularizationHippocampalRepresentationPerceptual Learning Improves Pattern Classification in the Primary Visual Cortex Representation of the Trained Location
Demirayak P, Stewart P, Cutts E, Ragland M, Maxwell E, Maniglia M, Jayakumar S, Munneke J, Turk-Browne N, Seitz A, Visscher K. Perceptual Learning Improves Pattern Classification in the Primary Visual Cortex Representation of the Trained Location. Journal Of Vision 2025, 25: 2184. DOI: 10.1167/jov.25.9.2184.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchThe ubiquity of episodic-like memory during infancy
Behm L, Turk-Browne N, Kibbe M. The ubiquity of episodic-like memory during infancy. Trends In Cognitive Sciences 2025, 29: 1034-1047. PMID: 40404529, DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2025.04.003.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchLatent Representation Learning for Multimodal Brain Activity Translation
Afrasiyabi A, Bhaskar D, Busch E, Caplette L, Singh R, Lajoie G, Turk-Browne N, Krishnaswamy S. Latent Representation Learning for Multimodal Brain Activity Translation. 2025, 00: 1-5. DOI: 10.1109/icassp49660.2025.10887834.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchBrain activityElectrophysiological recordingsFunctional brain unitsBrain information processingFunctional connectivityNeuroimaging techniquesBrain functionNeuroscience researchAttention networkModality-specific biasesInformation processingModel functional connectivityBrain unitsBrainSpectral filteringNeuroscienceClinical contextIncreased spatial precisionBrain signalsFMRILatent representation learningGraph attention networkHeterogeneous data sourcesResolution gapSpatial precisionHippocampal encoding of memories in human infants
Yates T, Fel J, Choi D, Trach J, Behm L, Ellis C, Turk-Browne N. Hippocampal encoding of memories in human infants. Science 2025, 387: 1316-1320. PMID: 40112047, DOI: 10.1126/science.adt7570.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsInfantile amnesiaFunctional magnetic resonance imagingEncoding of memoriesMemory taskEpisodic memoryHippocampal encodingHuman infantsAwake infantsMemoryEncoding mechanismMagnetic resonance imagingAmnesiaMemory-basedIndividual memoryAutobiographical recordResonance imagingPostencodingHippocampusPeriod of human lifeYears of ageInfancyBrainTaskRetrievalMovies reveal the fine-grained organization of infant visual cortex
Ellis C, Yates T, Arcaro M, Turk-Browne N. Movies reveal the fine-grained organization of infant visual cortex. ELife 2025, 12: rp92119. PMID: 40047799, PMCID: PMC11884787, DOI: 10.7554/elife.92119.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
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- December 05, 2025Source: Yale News
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