David Huberdeau

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University (2017)
david.huberdeau@yale.edu
David studies “the batter’s problem”- how humans learn to perceive subtle signs and statistical regularities in their environment (such as how a pitcher grips and throws a baseball), and how they incorporate that information into their actions (such as adjusting the swing of a bat to account for the most likely pitch). Learning to bind perception to action in this way likely underlies how many skills are learned, and thus understanding the computational and neural mechanisms involved in this process will be broadly relevant and useful. David uses psychophysics, computational modeling, and fMRI to investigate these mechanisms.