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Welcome to the Decision Neuroscience Lab

Semester and internship projects for students from all departments and institutes at ETH Zurich and EPFL

We offer a diversity of internship and semester projects for students from all departments at ETH. Examples - broadly speaking - of projects that we run in our lab

  • Computational Neuroscience (both humans and rodents)
  • Psychology, Learning and Human Behavior
  • Brain Imaging and Brain Stimulation in Humans
  • Neurobehavioral mechanisms in animals (rodents)
  • Machine Learning with links to neuroscience

News

New article in Nature Human Behaviour

New article in Science Adv.: Rational inattention in mice

New article in Nature Communications

New grant award

New article in Nature Communications

Publications

  • Schaffner J, Bao SD, Tobler PN, Hare TA*, Polania R* (2023) Sensory perception relies on fitness-maximizing codes.
    Nature Human Behaviour
  • Aiello G, Ledergeber D, Dubcek T, Stieglitz L, Baumann C, Polania R*, Imbach L* (2023) Functional network dynamics between the anterior thalamus and the cortex in deep brain stimulation for epilepsy. BRAIN
  • Barretto-García M, de Hollander G, Grueschow M, Polania R, et al (2023) Individual risk attitudes arise from noise in neurocognitive magnitude representations. Nature Human Behaviour
  • Grujic N, Brus J, Burdakov D, Polania R (2022) Rational inattention in mice.
    Science Advances
  • Brus J, Aebersold H, Grueschow M, Polania R (2021) Sources of confidence in value-based choice. Nature Communications
  • Beliaeva V, Savvateev I, Zerbi V, Polania R (2021) Toward integrative approaches to study the causal role of neural oscillations via transcranial electrical stimulation. Nature Communications
  • Heng JA, Woodford M, Polania R (2020) Efficient sampling and noisy decisions. eLife
  • Maier SU , Raja Beharelle A, Polania R, Ruff CC, Hare TA. (2020) Dissociable mechanisms govern when and how strongly reward attributes affect decisions. Nature Human Behaviour
  • Brus J., Heng J., Polania R. (2019) Weber’s Law: A Mechanistic Foundation after Two Centuries. TiCS
  • Polania R., Woodford M., Ruff C. (2019) Efficient coding of subjective value. Nature Neuroscience
  • Edelson M., Polania R., Ruff C., Fehr E., Hare TA. (2018) Computational and neurobiological foundations of leadership decisions. Science
  • Polania R., Nitsche MA, Ruff C. (2018) Studying and modifying brain function with non-invasive brain stimulation. Nature Neuroscience
  • Hill H, Suzuki S., Polania R., Moisa M, O’Doherty, Ruff C. (2017) A causal account of the brain network computations underlying strategic social behavior. Nature Neuroscience
  • Polania R., Moisa M., Opitz A., Grueschow M., Ruff CC. (2015). The precision of value-based choices depends causally on fronto-parietal phase-coupling. Nature Communications

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