Babak Hemmatian Borujeni
(he/him/his)
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Primary Affiliation
Beckman Institute Postdoctoral FellowsAffiliations
Status Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow
Home Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Phone
Email babak2@illinois.edu
Address 2117 Beckman Institute, 405 North Mathews Avenue
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Biography
Babak Hemmatian is a Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Education
B.A., clinical psychology, University of Tehran, 2013
M.S., computer science, Brown University, 2021
Ph.D., cognitive science, Brown University, 2021
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Honors
2021: Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Research
Research areas:
Cognitive Neuroscience
Computational Neuroscience
Research interests:
Internalization of social information
Text anaylsis, neuroimaging, and behavioral experiments
Causal and narrative frames for organizing and communication information
His research is focused on how individuals incorporate information from their communities into their reasoning, and how they negotiate the contents of this collective information base with other members. He uses a variety of behavioral, computational, and neural methodologies to this end. Outside academia, he is a peace activist and formalist poetry translator.
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2020
- Hemmatian, Babak & Sloman, Steven. (2020). Two Systems for Thinking with a Community: Outsourcing versus Collaboration.
2019
- Hemmatian, B., Sloman, S.J., Cohen Priva, U. et al. Think of the consequences: A decade of discourse about same-sex marriage. Behav Res 51, 1565–1585 (2019). https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-019-01215-3
2018
- Hemmatian, Babak & Sloman, Steven. (2018). Community Appeal: Explanation Without Information. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 147. 1677-1712. 10.1037/xge0000478.