Welcome
I am a cognitive neuroscientist based at the Zurich Center for Neuroeconomics (ZNE) at the University of Zurich (UZH).
My main research aim is to understand how humans make simple everyday decisions and how their decisions are shaped by fundamental properties of brain architecture.
Updates
2026
- 2026-09-16 Our paper with Arthur Prat-Carrabin (shared first authorship) and Sam Gershman showing that numerical receptive fields in parietal cortex shift and rescale to the range of numbers has been accepted in Nature Communications (preprint). This is a dynamic form of efficient coding that also shapes behavioural precision. You can explore the receptive fields of every participant in our interactive 3D brain viewers.
- 2026-09-10 Our paper showing that rapid changes in risk attitudes originate from Bayesian inference on noisy parietal magnitude representations is now out in Nature Communications. The same payoffs can elicit risk aversion or risk seeking, depending on how precisely they are represented in parietal cortex.
- 2026-08-10 Explore our new interactive 3D brain viewers showing numerosity receptive fields on the cortical surface of every participant of our preprint on numerical range adaptation.
- 2026-06-12 Our cognitive-modelling package bauer now supports DDM and race-diffusion likelihoods, so models can be informed by reaction times as well as choices.
- 2026-06-12 Check out our new preprint on how separable efficient codes shape both perception and value along the pathway from sensation to action.
- 2026-04-04 Check out our new preprint on how the OFC/vmPFC implements a probabilistic population code for value.
2025
- 2025-11-10 Check out our new preprint on how the effect of stress on risky decision-making and numerical representations.
- 2025-09-27 Check out our new preprint on how numerical receptive fields shift depending on task demands.
- 2025-09-21 Check out my material for a workshop on Computational Methods for Neuroeconomics in beautiful Soglio, Switzerland.
To learn more about
- Who I am, have a look at the about-page
- What I do, have a look at the projects-page
- What I have done, have a look at the publications-page
- Software I built, have a look at the software-page
