Headshot of Bettina Bustos

Currently, I am a Society of Fellows (SoF) postdoc at Dartmouth College working with Jonathan Phillips and Steven Frankland. Broadly, I study learning and memory, and how costs for control guide adaptive behavior and information storage through behavioral experiments, neuroimaging, and computational modeling.

In 2026, I wrapped up my Ph.D. with Dr. Jiefeng Jiang in the Lab for Adaptive Behavior in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at UIowa. Here, I was a member of the C3 (Cognitive Control Collaborative) . Previously, I was a lab manager at Wouter Kool's Control and Decision-Making Lab at WashU.

Before that, I worked on a longitudinal aging study at the University of Pittsburgh and studied Psychology at UT Austin with an emphasis in cognitive neuroscience. I also worked as an RA in Jarrod Lewis-Peacock's Lab .

See the Other page for links to resources I've enjoyed and benefited from.