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Research Experience

Our goal is to help our students acquire:

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

Intellectual freedom

Our students can investigate any topic, or combination of topics, within the five research domains of the Decision Neuroscience Laboratory (see Projects page):

  • Neural architecture of social reasoning in the prefrontal cortex
  • Cognitive and neural mechanisms of causal reasoning
  • Neural bases of moral, ethical, and political decision-making
  • Cognitive and neural foundations of probability judgment
  • Functional organization of working memory in the prefrontal cortex

Rich intellectual environment

Potential collaborations and/or co-supervision with a large number of brain and cognition researchers at Georgetown and the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Many opportunities for collaborations and training

Numerous seminars and talk series on brain and cognition


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