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
Jeff Cockburn
Office
Address

173 Psychological and Brain Sciences Building (PBSB)
Iowa City, IA 52242
United States

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