I have investigated the contribution of the orbitofrontal cortex, the basolateral amygdala and the nucleus accumbens core in reward processing and representation and have conducted pharmacological research into the effect of the neurotransmitter dopamine on timing and choice behavior. I am interested in the interaction between reward value and reward delay in timing paradigms and temporal discounting tasks and my current research investigates how individual sensitivity to reward value and delay affects choice behavior. We anticipate that this line of research will be a factor in the development of therapeutic techniques for the treatment of impulsive choice disorders in humans and also contribute to the development of a neurocomputational model of timing, reward processing and temporal discounting.
