Rene Weber

Dr. Rene Weber is Professor in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at UC Santa Barbara, where he directs the Media Neuroscience Lab. His pioneering research uses fMRI and neuroimaging to study cognitive responses to media, including moral conflict processing, persuasion mechanisms, media violence effects, and flow experiences during media use.

Current research examines relationships between media multitasking and ADHD, and analyzes moral narratives in global news through computational methods. His work has been funded by national scientific foundations in the US and Germany. Weber holds both a PhD in Psychology and an MD in Psychiatry/Cognitive Neuroscience, bridging media psychology with clinical neuroscience approaches.

He received recognition as Fellow of the International Communication Association for his methodological innovations in communication neuroscience. Recent publications identify neural correlates of moral reasoning modulated by political ideology and brain network efficiency patterns in attention disorders.