Nick Turk-Browne is Susan Nolen-Hoeksema Professor of Psychology and director of the Wu Tsai Institute at Yale University. He completed his H.B.Sc. at the University of Toronto. He earned his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology at Yale University in 2009 under the supervision of Marvin Chun and Brian Scholl. He was a professor at Princeton University in the psychology department before starting at Yale in 2017.
Nick Turk-Browne
Professor of psychology; Director of the Wu Tsai Institute
Yale University
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