Amrita Lamba

Amrita Lamba is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her research focuses on understanding how anxiety, uncertainty, and moral motivations influence decision-making processes and social learning. She investigates neural mechanisms underlying credit assignment, policy adaptation, and cooperative behavior using experimental and computational approaches.

Her work bridges neuroscience and psychology, exploring topics such as prefrontal cortex function, emotional regulation, and the interplay between cognitive states and adaptive behavior. She employs Bayesian modeling and entropy analysis to study cooperation dynamics and moral decision-making under uncertainty.

Selected publications highlight her contributions to understanding how anxiety disrupts adaptive learning, the role of prefrontal cortex states in credit assignment, and the effects of uncertainty on cooperative heuristics. While no awards or grants are explicitly mentioned, her research demonstrates impactful interdisciplinary investigations into human cognition.