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Research
The interests of our lab are generally centered around the study of learning and memory, decision making, and executive control. Much of work is focused on basic cognitive and neural mechanisms, but we are also heavily involved in translational research into the mechanisms of neuropsychiatric disorders.
Funded projects
The Cognitive Atlas (funded by NIMH R01MH082795)
The Cognitive Atlas project aims to develop an ontology for cognitive processes through social collaborative knowledge building.
Automaticity, Habit, and Cognitive Control (funded by a James S. McDonnell Foundation 21st Century Science Award)
This project is examining the relation between habitual behaviors and executive control in normal populations. In particular, we are examining how the ability to control behavior changes as a person becomes highly skilled in a task.
The neural basis of risky decision making (funded by the National Science Foundation)
This project, which is collaborative with Craig Fox in the UCLA Anderson School of Management, is examining the neural systems involved in economic decision-making under conditions of risk and uncertainty.
Predictive analyses of training-related plasticity using fMRI and pattern classification techniques (funded by the Office of Naval Research)
This project using machine learning techniques to examine the utility of fMRI in predicting the nature of skilled behavior.
Center grants
Consortium for Neuropsychiatric Phenomics (funded by NIH, PI: R. Bilder)
This Roadmap Interdisciplinary Research Consortium is leveraging the new discipline of phenomics to understand neuropsychiatric disorders at multiple levels, from genes to neural systems to cognitive processes to psychiatric syndromes.
CIDAR: Translational Research to Enhance Cognitive Control (funded by NIMH 1P50MH077248 J.McCracken, Center PI)
This
center is dedicated to translational research focused on interventions
(both pharmacological and behavioral) to improve cognitive control in
children with neuropsychiatric disorders.
Methamphetamine Abuse, Inhibitory Control: Implications for Treatment (funded by NIDA P20DA022539, E. London, PI)
This exploratory center is investigating novel mechanisms for enhancing cognitive
control as a therapeutic approach in methamphetamine abuse.
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