Research Associate

Department of Physology, Development and Neuroscience

Cambridge Neuroscience Institute

University of Cambridge

Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience

University of Cambridge

Downing Street

Cambridge

email: pnt21@cam.ac.uk

As an undergraduate, I studied Experimental Psychology, with an empirical focus on the oculomotor system. For my PhD I joined the lab of Wolfram Schultz and investigated reward processing by single dopamine neurons. My postdoctoral work employed functional magnetic resonance imaging in humans to shed light on how the brain processes economic reward parameters, such as risk, delay and probability. Currently, I am interested in the neural basis of reward, learning, economic decision making and social behaviour. I study both group effects and individual differences with a variety of methods. Examples of brain structures I am particularly interested in include the dopaminergic midbrain, the striatum and the prefrontal cortex.