Area of research
Cognitive Neuroscience · General Decision Sciences
Research interest
Research interests include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, Behavioral Health and Interventions, and Neural dynamics and brain function.
Slower transitions between control states lead to reductions in cognitive flexibility over the lifespan
Orthogonal neural encoding of targets and distractors supports multivariate cognitive control
Common neural choice signals can emerge artefactually amid multiple distinct value signals
Humans reconfigure target and distractor processing to address distinct task demands.
Control adjustment costs limit goal flexibility: Empirical evidence and a computational account
Rat Anterior Cingulate Cortex Continuously Signals Decision Variables in a Patch Foraging Task
Learning when effort matters: neural dynamics underlying updating and adaptation to changes in performance efficacy
Orthogonal neural encoding of targets and distractors supports multivariate cognitive control
Common neural choice signals can emerge artifactually amidst multiple distinct value signals
Expectations of reward and efficacy guide cognitive control allocation
Advances in modeling learning and decision-making in neuroscience
Aversive motivation and cognitive control
Dissociable influences of reward and punishment on adaptive cognitive control
Learning to Overexert Cognitive Control in a Stroop Task
Humans reconfigure target and distractor processing to address distinct task demands
Aversive Motivation and Cognitive Control
When effort matters: Expectations of reward and efficacy guide cognitive control allocation
Learning to Overexert Cognitive Control in a Stroop Task
Dissociable influences of reward and punishment on adaptive cognitive control
Learning when effort matters: Neural dynamics underlying updating and adaptation to changes in performance efficacy
The Eighty Five Percent Rule for optimal learning
Goal congruency dominates reward value in accounting for behavioral and neural correlates of value-based decision-making
Dissociable components of the reward circuit are involved in appraisal versus choice
Goal congruency dominates reward value in accounting for behavioral and neural correlates of value-based decision-making
Spatiotemporally distinct neural mechanisms underlie our reactions to and comparison between value-based options
Author response: Rats exhibit similar biases in foraging and intertemporal choice tasks
The Effort Paradox: Effort Is Both Costly and Valued
Dissociable neural mechanisms track evidence accumulation for selection of attention versus action
Toward a Rational and Mechanistic Account of Mental Effort
Increased locus coeruleus tonic activity causes disengagement from a patch-foraging task