Tal is a postdoctoral fellow in the Affective Brain Lab, located in the Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research and the Experimental psychology department at University College London. She is interested in the ways our cognitive system interacts and prioritises different types of information to make good decisions, and the mental fluctuations that follow and precede them. Her research methodologies and tools combine behavioural and physiological measurements, and Bayesian modelling.