njd130@psychology.rutgers.edu

Nicholas Dennis (he/him) is a PhD student with the Delgado Lab in the Department of Psychology. Nick is interested in how people learn to make adaptive decisions in the context of goal-directed behavior—in particular, how the brain interprets value across time and under different social, emotional, and motivational demands. He is from Wyomissing, PA, and obtained his B.A. in Neuroscience from Colgate University in 2019. Prior to joining the Delgado Lab, Nick completed a post-bac fellowship with Dr. BJ Casey at Yale to research the adolescent brain and social/cognitive development, then worked with Dr. David Zald at Rutgers to parse the boundaries between normative and aberrant cognitive control by examining neural (via fMRI) and behavioral correlates of psychopathology.