Our goal is to help our students acquire:

• a 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

• Department of Neuroscience
  
• Department of Psychology
  
• National Institutes of Health
  
• Scientific and Statistical Computer Core

Numerous seminars and talk series on brain and cognition

• NIH Neuroscience Lecture Series
• NIH Clinical Center Grand Rounds
  
• Georgetown University Neuroscience Seminar Series
  
• Georgetown University Neurolunch
  
  

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.