Philippe Tobler

Short biography

After having studied experimental psychology with a focus on the oculomotor system, I joined Wolfram Schultz's lab for my PhD and investigated reward processing by single dopamine neurons. My postdoctoral work employed functional magnetic resonance imaging in humans to shed light on how the brain processes economic reward parameters, such as risk, delay and probability. Currently, I am interested in the neural basis of reward, learning, economic decision making and social behaviour. I study both group effects and individual differences with a variety of methods. Examples of brain structures I am particularly interested in include the dopaminergic midbrain, the striatum and the prefrontal cortex.