Recording
Speaker
Arkady Konovalov
Bio
I am an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham. My research focuses on neuroeconomics and decision making in general, including models of the choice process, value-based learning, and social and strategic interactions, using methods of computational neuroscience such as response times modeling, fMRI, EEG, eye-tracking, and mouse-tracking.
I received my PhD from the Ohio State University, where I worked with Ian Krajbich, PJ Healy, and John Kagel; I then got my postdoctoral training with Christian Ruff at the University of Zurich.
Abstract
Behavior in social contexts, including social learning, is often accompanied by neural activity in the brain network that includes the temporoparietal junction (TPJ), dorsomedial and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dmPFC and dlPFC), and precuneus. This network – typically referred to as the “social brain” – is often linked to information processing demands of life in social groups. While the precise nature of the computations in this network remains elusive, decision neuroscience has been trying to pin down the neural computations underlying strategic behavior and learning in the social brain network. I will discuss our recent work that focuses on such computations, including strategic decision-making and mentalization.