Human & Machine Intelligence

Human & Machine Intelligence A lab at Princeton University

We study the ingredients of intelligence in humans and machines. Join us.

7/2025 The lab is officially reopened at Princeton University! We are joint between the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Psychology.
2/2024: In the News! Our lab publishes in Science on “Grounded language acquisition through the eyes and ears of a single child”, with write-ups in the The New York Times and the Washington Post.
11/2023: In the News! Our lab publishes in Nature on “Human-like systematic generalization through a meta-learning neural network”, with write-ups in Scientific American and Nature News.

Brenden Lake started the lab at New York University in 2017, and we moved to Princeton University in 2025. We are joint between the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Psychology. Our main location is in Princeton’s Peretsman Scully Hall and includes rooms 117, 120, and 121.