Anthony Miesel

A young man with short light brown hair, wearing a dark green long-sleeved shirt, smiles at the camera.

amiesel@nd.edu

Biography

Anthony (Tony) Miesel earned a B.S. in Psychology and a B.A. in History from West Virginia University in 2025. He then joined the Decision Neuroscience Laboratory to begin a Ph.D. in the Cognition, Brain, and Behavior program.

Tony’s research seeks to explain individual differences in general intelligence in terms of neural differences. He seeks to answer questions such as: (1) What is it about the organization of the brain that allows for our generalizable problem-solving ability; (2) To what extent are individual differences in general intelligence reducible to brain differences; and (3) What specific features of the brain, be they structural and functional connectivity patterns, efficient organization, or even cellular and molecular mechanisms best explain differences in intelligence?