Prashanti Ganesh

Prashanti Ganesh is a post-doctoral researcher at Brown University working in Matt Nassar's laboratory, having recently defended her PhD at Freie Universität Berlin's Berlin School of Mind and Brain program. Her doctoral research was conducted within the Department of Education and Psychology's Neurocognitive and Experimental Psychology group and Learning Lab under Dr. Rasmus Bruckner's supervision.

Education:

• PhD in Psychology (2020-2025), Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin School of Mind and Brain
• MSc in Cognitive Science (2018-2020), Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
• BA in Psychology (2015-2018), St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai

Her research centers on perceptual and economic decision-making mechanisms under uncertainty, investigating how individuals integrate perceptual and reward information during value-based choices. Using behavioral experiments, fMRI, and computational modeling, she examines neural correlates of prediction errors, counterfactual feedback processing, and adaptive learning strategies in uncertain environments.

Recent publications demonstrate consistent focus on computational mechanisms of learning and decision-making, particularly how pupil-linked arousal encodes uncertainty, limitations of learning rates as performance predictors, and adaptive information integration. Her work bridges cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and computational modeling with applications in understanding healthy and pathological decision processes.

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Previously affiliated with FU Berlin's Learning Lab, she now conducts research in Matt Nassar's laboratory at Brown University, advancing cognitive and computational neuroscience approaches to human decision architecture.