Robert (Bob) Wilson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Psychology
Georgia Institute of Technology
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rwilson337@gatech.edu

Research Interests

Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Reinforcement Learning, Decision Making, Computational Psychiatry, Computational Aging

About

The goal of my research is to build mathematical theories of the mind and brain that explain behavior in health, mental illness, and cognitive decline. To this end, work in my lab mixes computational modeling with behavioral, neuroimaging, and neurostimulation experiments to probe the algorithms underlying human behavior.

Our work touches on many different kinds of behavior including:

  • Explore-exploit decision making
  • Phishing email detection
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  • Perceptual decision making