The Decision Dynamics Laboratory in 2023.
CURRENT MEMBERS
Laurence Hunt
Laurence leads the group. He completed his DPhil in Neuroscience at Oxford in 2012, using MEG to study the temporal dynamics of simple economic decision-making, and was then a postdoc at UCL for five years, where he performed comparative experiments between using human neuroimaging and non-human primate neurophysiology. He returned to Oxford to set up the lab in April 2018, and was appointed an Associate Professor in the Department of Experimental Psychology in 2022. When not in the lab, he is sometimes found playing ultimate frisbee, singing tenor in the local choir, or building Brio train sets with his four-year-old.
Amy Li
Amy is a first-year DPhil student co-supervised by Sage Boettcher, and funded by the Waverley Scholarship and the Clarendon Fund. She is currently using M/EEG combined with behavioural paradigms to investigate human decision-making and information sampling. Broadly, her interests lie in the interplay between attention, memory, and decisions. Outside of the lab, she enjoys underwater fish-spotting (although England is currently making this difficult) and collaborative music-making.
Miruna Rascu
Miruna is a research assistant in the groups of Laurence Hunt and Miriam Klein-Flügge. She is currently using EEG, neuroimaging, neurostimulation and pharmacological interventions to investigate the neural mechanisms of flexible decision-making. Before coming to Oxford, she obtained her MD from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila, Bucharest, Romania, and worked in the Monyer group at the University Hospital Heidelberg, where she studied spatial navigation and remapping using in vivo electrophysiology in rodents. When she’s not in the lab she’s either traveling or planning her next trip.
Michał Wójcik
Michał is a final year DPhil student currently supervised by Laurence and previously by Mark Stokes. His research focuses on using a machine-learning oriented framework to understand how biological circuits give rise to higher cognition. He is especially interested in the processes of abstraction and generalisation and how their learning dynamics can be explained and predicted by neural networks models. To capture how neural activity changes over the course of learning, he uses human electroencephalography (EEG) and high resolution neural population recordings from nonhuman primates.
Layla Stahr
Layla is a final year DPhil student on the Wellcome Trust 4-year Doctoral Programme in Neuroscience. She is also supervised by Cameron Hassall and David Bannerman. Layla completed her undergraduate degree at Harvard in 2017, conducting research with Joshua Buckholtz and Sam Gershman while there. She then moved to Oxford for her MSc in Neuroscience (funded by the Henry Fellowship) and has been here since. Her main interests lie in using pharmacological manipulation and neural imaging to explore computational and cognitive models of psychiatric disorders. When not in lab, you'll find her training with the Christ Church Boat Club, where she previously served as Women's Captain.
Kuo Liu
Kuo is a 2nd year undergraduate student in experimental psychology doing an undergraduate research project in the lab. His project uses EEG to investigates how temporal regularities affect evidence weighting in the decision-making process. He is also interested in studying human decision-making processes under more ecologically valid settings. He loves playing snooker in his free time, and dreams that one day he could study decision-making in snooker.
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