Research

Social cognition and the cognitive grounding of collective phenomena.

Computational, behavioral and neural approaches to learning and decision making.

Social cognition, stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination.

Language acquisition and language processing.

Neural and computational basis of consciousness.

Neural basis of human communication.

Development of language and cognition in infancy.

Reinforcement learning and decision making, computational cognitive neuropsychiatry.

Cognitive neuroscience of learning and memory.

Prejudice and conflict reduction using large-scale field experiments.

Perception and response to social norms.

Behavioral economics of scarcity.

Interpersonal interactions, prejudice and stereotypes

Neural basis of the self and its impact on social interactions.

Decision making under risk, uncertainty, and time delay; role of memory, attention and emotion in preference construction; environmental decision making; neuroeconomics