Research 

Our lab is interested in how emotional & social contexts influence our action & decision-making. We use a combination of behavioral, pharmacological, neural & computational approaches to address these questions.

Currently, our research is focused on the following broad themes:

• A hallmark of a healthy social connection is our ability to relate with others. We aim to investigate the cognitive and physiological mechanisms of productive social interactions in healthy and atypical populations.

• An affective disorder like depression is often associated with an enhanced sensitivity to negative stimuli, anhedonia, amotivation and rumination. We aim to gain a physiological understanding of how impaired affective processing may be linked to these behavioral symptoms and how interventions like exercise may help alleviate it.