Psychological & Brain Sciences Gaucho Virtual Alumni Mixer 2021

The 2021 Psychological & Brain Sciences Virtual Alumni Mixer will be on 5/21/2021 @ 4 - 5:30 PM.

Join students, faculty, and fellow alumni for a community event of music, reuniting with classmates, networking, and catching up with what’s happening at UCSB Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences!

You can register by clicking on the button on the PDF or by this link. Questions: pbsalumni@psych.ucsb.edu

How Learning Sculpts Goal-Directed Decisions

My research examines how learning influences decisions about goals. I will present the results of three neuroimaging studies investigating how the human striatum adjusts goal-directed behavior in response to reward feedback. I will also touch on some recent work linking neural recordings from striatal neurons of nonhuman primates and fMRI recordings from humans performing similar goal-directed decision-making tasks.