Irma Kurniawan (PhD)

Position: Post-doctoral researcher of Mathias Pessiglione

Email: irma [dot] kurniawan [at] gmail [dot] com

Personal website: http://sites.google.com/site/irmakurniawan/

Irma completed her psychology degree in Universitas Indonesia and University of Queensland (Australia). Despite the all-year-round sunny weather, she left the southern hemisphere to do an MSc at Oxford University in 2006 where she worked with Matthew Rushworth and Mark Walton on effort-based decision making. During her doctoral work at University College London with Nick Chater and Ray Dolan, she continued her fascination for decision neuroscience and effort. After a one year postdoc with Mathias Pessiglione she went to Singapore to work with Michael Chee on the impacts of sleep deprivation on memory and decision making. She is now back at the MBB lab to work with Mathias Pessiglione on the biological mechanisms of cognitive fatigue on decison making. She is happy to be back in the continent.

In her spare time she plays basketball and tennis, and dances swing and salsa. She hopes to keep playing tennis until she is 80 years old.

Bio

• 2016 - present Post-doc, Motivation, Brain & Behavior Lab, Brain & Spine Institute, Paris
• 2013 - 2016 Post-doc, Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
• 2012 Post-doc, Motivation, Brain & Behavior Lab, Brain & Spine Institute, Paris
• 2007-2011 PhD, Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London
• 2006-2007 MSc, Research in Psychology, University of Oxford,Oxford
• 2003-2005 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane
• 2000-2006 Sarjana Psikologi (Bachelor of Psychology), Universitas Indonesia, Depok

Peer-reviewed publication

Kurniawan IT*, Cousins JN*, Chong PL, Chee MW. (2016). Procedural performance following sleep deprivation remains impaired despite extended practice and an afternoon nap. Sci Rep. 6:36001. doi: 10.1038/srep36001.

Kurniawan, I.T., Guitart-Masip, M., Dayan, P., & Dolan, R.J. (2013). Effort and valuation in the brain: The effects of anticipation and execution. JNeurosci 33(14): 6160-6169.

Originally published online 3 April 2013. Doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4777-12.2013.

Kurniawan, I.T., Guitart-Masip, M., & Dolan, R.J. (2011). Dopamine and effort-based decision making. Front. Neurosci. 5:81. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2011.00081

(Review article in Special issue ‘Neurobiology of Choice’).

Kurniawan, I.T, Seymour, B., Talmi, D., Yoshida, W., Chater, N., & Dolan, R. J., (2010). Choosing to make an effort: the role of striatum in signaling physical effort of a chosen action. J Neurophysiol 104: 313 - 321.

Originally published online 12 May 2010. DOI:10.1152/jn.00027.2010.

Kurniawan, I.T.*, Seymour, B.*, Vlaev, I., Trommershäuser, J., Dolan, R. J., & Chater, N. (2010). Pain relativity in motor control. Psychological Science 21: 840 - 847. Originally published online 30 April 2010. DOI: 10.1177/0956797610370160.