Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

Associative learning lays the foundation for motivated behavior, enabling us to recognize and respond appropriately to salient environmental events. Importantly, these learning processes vary widely across individuals, changing as a function of our present context, stage in life, and unique experiential and genetic background.  My research is focused on understanding the heterogeneity in computational, cognitive, and neural processes that gives rise to individual differences in motivated learning and decision-making. In this talk, I will present studies using neuroimaging, computational modeling, psychophysiology, and genetics to examine factors that govern individual variation in value-based learning, and discuss how such heterogeneity may influence one's choices and psychological well being.

Additional information can be found at:  https://www.sacklerinstitute.org/cornell/people/catherine.hartley/