The research group focuses on three broad areas:
- Learning, with a particular emphasis on causal learning in humans.
- Emotion, especially in relation to anxiety disorders, depression, addiction-related problems, and health
- Decision-making, including decision-making processes, risk-taking behavior, and their physiological correlates.
Research lines
- Learning processes, decision-making, and the assessment and prevention of risk behavior in substance addiction and pathological gambling.
- Decision-making and risk behavior in driving.
- Medical decision-making, communication, and cognitive processes in health-related contexts.
- Learning and emotional processes involved in action control and food-related decision-making.
Coordinator
Antonio Cándido Ortiz (acandido@ugr.es)
Labs
Neuroergonomics & Operators Performance
Research Lines Associated with the María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence
- Basic Cognitive Functions
- Ergonomics