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Executive control and economic choice - We study how the brain represents value, implements choice, and regulates choices using executive control and self-control. We are especially interested in naturalistic contexts, such as continuous interactive choices and curiosity-driven choices.
Language neuroscience - We study how the brain represents word meanings and how it combines word meanings to convey shades of meaning. We are particularly interested in naturalistic contexts such as conversations, and in relating language use to depression and autism.
Neuromodulation and mental illness - Finally, we use behavioral and electrophysiological methods to develop and improve treatments for psychiatric and neurological disease, especially depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, and addiction.
Lab news:
• We have new preprints available on bioRxiv on representation of lexical semantics, semantic contextualization, language processing under anesthesia, self-other differentiation, and interactive control and ethogramming in our interactive control task.
•. See a recent talk on our language work by Ben given at Stanford.
We admit graduate students through BCM's Neuroscience Graduate Program , the Quantitative and computational Biology Program, and through the ECE program at Rice University.
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