Research

The workgroup for Biological Psychology primarily investigates the neural basis of learning, decision-making, and memory processes. Current research focuses include, among others:

• Disturbances in decision-making behavior in addiction disorders
• Dopaminergic mechanisms of learning and decision processes
• The role of prospection in temporal discounting
• Neuroendocrine influencing factors on decision processes
• The role of the prefrontal cortex in evaluation and decision processes
• Computational modeling; Quantitative text analysis