Jan Grohn

Jan Grohn is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Matthew Rushworth's group at the University of Oxford's Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging. His research focuses on understanding how rewards guide decisions, employing computational models to explain behavioral data and linking these models to neural activity. He completed his DPhil in 2022, with projects investigating surprise representation in the brain, risk preference formation, and neural mechanisms of exploration. Grohn's work bridges decision neuroscience, computational modeling, and cognitive neuroscience.

Education:

• Bachelor of Arts (BA)
• Master of Science (MSc)
• Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil)

Research Interests: Decision-making processes, reward-based learning, computational neuroscience, neural correlates of risk preferences, and primate neurophysiology. His studies often involve linking behavioral models to neural activity in prefrontal cortex regions.

Publications Overview: Recent work includes studies on complex planning impairments in ventromedial prefrontal lesions, task engagement in primate frontal cortex, and strategic exploration in macaques. His research emphasizes understanding neural mechanisms underlying decision strategies and cognitive control.

Labs & Affiliations: Active in the Rushworth Lab at Oxford’s Wellcome Centre, focusing on integrative neuroimaging and computational approaches to decision neuroscience.