Sam McDougle

Samuel McDougle earned his BA in Neuroscience and Behavior from Vassar College in 2009 and his PhD in Neuroscience and Psychology from Princeton University in 2018. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley, Sam joined Yale’s Psychology Department in 2020 as an assistant professor. Sam’s lab uses behavioral experiments, computational modeling, neuroimaging, and neuropsychology techniques to study motor memory and motor learning. One of the lab’s main interests is how neural systems that support higher-level cognition intertwine with lower-level control of the human body, the so-called “cognitive-motor interface.” Sam enjoys playing and performing old-time, folk, and bluegrass music (fiddle, mandolin, and guitar) and backyard lounging with his partner Kelly and son Leo.