Decision Neuroscience Lab
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Our goal is to help our students acquire:

  • training imagea deep understanding of the cognitive neuroscience of executive control, reasoning and decision making
  • experience conducting behavioral, fMRI and neuropsychological patient research
  • the ability to think critically and propose new ideas and experiments
  • essential academic skills, including the ability to write manuscripts and grant proposals, present at conferences, and supervise/train junior researchers

Intellectual freedom

Our students can investigate any topic, or combination of topics, within the four research domains of the Decision Neuroscience Lab:

Rich intellectual environment

Potential collaborations and/or co-supervision with a large number of brain and cognition researchers at the University of Illinois

Many opportunities for collaborations and training:

Numerous seminars and talk series on brain and cognition:


Please contact Aron K. Barbey (Barbey@Illinois.edu) if you would like to learn more about our lab and are potentially interested in joining.