Hello! I’m Nathan Tardiff, a postdoctoral fellow in the Gold and Cohen labs at the University of Pennsylvania.

I study the cognitive and neural mechanisms that allow humans to flexibly adapt their behavior in changing and uncertain environments. Such flexibility requires the interaction of learning, decision-making, arousal, and cognitive control processes.

I completed my PhD in the Thompson-Schill lab. Prior to this, I was a research assistant in the Carey Lab at Harvard, where I studied the role of executive function in the construction and expression of conceptual knowledge in children and the elderly.