Jeffrey Cockburn, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Biography
Education
- PhD in Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences - Brown University
Training Areas
Cognition
Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience
Research Interests
My interests center on the computational properties of human learning and decision making. In pursuit of this, I combine multiple levels of computational modelling, behavioural experiments, brain imaging techniques, and work with special populations to better understand the algorithms embodied by the brain to tackle complex real-world decision making tasks.
- Learning and decision making: How do we assign value and compare different options?
- Cognitive control: How do we balance conflicting motivational drives?
- Computational Psychiatry: How do disruptions in these processes manifest as dimensions of mental health?
Program
Neuroscience
Research areas
- Cognitive neuroscience
- Learning and Decision Making
- Cognitive control
- Reinforcement learning
- Exploration / Information seeking
- Computational modeling
- Brain Imaging
- Computational Psychiatry
