Anna Christina Nobre

Anna Christina Nobre, the inaugural director of the Wu Tsai Institute’s Center for Neurocognition and Behavior and the Wu Tsai Professor of Psychology in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, is a renowned cognitive neuroscientist who studies the organizing principles of the brain systems that support adaptive human cognition and behavior.

Nobre's research group is notably well known for its innovative and multi-methodological studies of “attention” — on how the brain proactively and dynamically focuses on relevant information in memory and in the external environment to optimize perception, choice, action, and learning.