Timothy Nokes-Malach PhD

My lab investigates human learning, problem solving, and motivation with an aim to understand, predict, and promote knowledge transfer. Transfer is the ability to use prior knowledge and experience to solve novel problems. We have focused on four interrelated lines of research: 1) investigating the cognitive and metacognitive processes underlying transfer success and failure, 2) exploring the relations between motivation, learning, and transfer, 3) examining the social and ecological processes that support or inhibit transfer, and 4) investigating the effects of mindfulness meditation on emotion regulation, learning, and transfer.