Under the direction of Dr. Mimi Liljeholm, research in the Learning & Decision Neuroscience Lab addresses how humans discover and represent the predictive structure of their environment, how such knowledge shapes cognition, perception and motivated behavior, and how those processes go awry in addiction and psychopathology. Our approach is multidisciplinary, drawing on a wide range of methods from neuroscience, economics, statistics, and computer science. In particular, we combine innovative experimental designs with computational cognitive modeling and neuroimaging, in order to develop formal accounts of psychological phenomena. Topics of interest include agency, causal induction, habits, altruism, and social transmission.