Christopher A. Baldassano
Assistant Professor of Psychology

My Contact Info

370 Schermerhorn Extension (Office)
312 Schermerhorn Hall (Lab)

Office Hours

By email appointment

Lab Website

Columbia Dynamic Perception and Memory Lab



+1 212 854 1902
[email protected]

Christopher A. Baldassano

Research Interests

Perception
memory
Cognitive Neuroscience
Event Cognition

Dynamic Perception and Memory Lab

Lab Site


Ph.D, Stanford University, 2015

Current Research

The Dynamic Perception and Memory Lab studies how we can understand and remember the complex world of our everyday lives. Through experiments using narratives, movies, and virtual reality, we investigate how experiences are divided into events, summarized, associated, and recalled. Our current projects are specifically focused on how our prior knowledge about the temporal and spatial structure of the world influences our construction of mental representations.
Using neuroimaging tools (primarily functional MRI), we can build models of how neural representations vary across stimuli and across people. We employ both hypothesis-driven and data-driven approaches based on approaches from modern machine learning, which allow us to ask new kinds of questions about how brain regions respond to the world and interact with each other.