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Tommy Blanchard

Tommy Blanchard

Post-Doctoral Researcher, Psychology
Harvard University

Disciplines: Neuroscience / Cognitive Science

Tommy Blanchard researches the neural mechanisms of decision-making and prefrontal cortex function, using neuroimaging and single-unit recording. He earned his PhD in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from the University of Rochester. Currently, he is a post-doctoral researcher in the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Harvard University.

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Why Humans Are Hard-Wired For Curiosity
Insatiable Minds

Why Humans Are Hard-Wired For Curiosity

By Vivian Hemmelder & Tommy Blanchard, Harvard University September 8, 2016

The same evolutionary forces that fuel our interest in food and sex may also drive our insatiable thirst for information.

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