Wouter Kool

Wouter Kool is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. His research focuses on the interplay between cognitive control, decision making, and reinforcement learning. He leads the Control and Decision-Making Lab, employing behavioral experiments, computational models, and neuroimaging techniques.

• Education: PhD (Princeton University), MA (Princeton University), MSc (Leiden University), BSc (Leiden University)

His work investigates how the brain manages effort-based decisions, arbitrates between choice strategies, and adapts learning processes in dynamic environments. Recent contributions include studies on human behavior in AI training contexts and mental mapping in decision-making.