
Our research lies at the intersection of decision-making, behavioral economics, and cognitive and affective neuroscience—a combination best described as the “Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience of Decision-Making.” We study how people make choices and assign subjective value to rewards. What are the cognitive, affective, and neural processes that shape the experience of reward? How do these processes vary across contexts and individuals? Understanding how outcomes are evaluated has broad implications: it can help improve well-being and decision-making in healthy individuals, while also offering insights into clinical populations where these processes are disrupted, such as in depression, addiction, or among older adults. To investigate these questions, we employ a multidisciplinary approach, combining paradigms from behavioral economics with electrophysiological (scalp and intracranial EEG) and computational tools in both healthy and clinical populations.