India Pinhorn

My research at the Affective Brain Lab centres on how real-world spatial, visual and semantic similarity structures guide value generalization – from past experiences to novel options. Supervised by Prof. Tali Sharot, I am interested in the neural mechanisms underlying these processes, when they develop, and how they may be disrupted in depression. During my master’s, I interned at the ABL, working with Dr. Bastien Blain on the relationship between intrinsic reward processing and wellbeing. I was also an intern with the Motivation, Brain and Behaviour team at the Paris Brain Institute, where I investigated how emotions spill over to unrelated contexts – biasing our choices. Previously, I completed a BA in Economics at Oxford University.