Dr H.E.M. den Ouden (Hanneke)
Principal Investigator - Donders Centre for Cognition
Principal Investigator - Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
Professor - Sensorimotor Neuroscience
Thomas van Aquinostraat 4
6525 GD NIJMEGEN
Postbus 9104
6500 HE NIJMEGEN
Research description
Hanneke den Ouden completed her Wellcome Trust PhD in Neuroscience at University College London in 2009. In her dissertation research she investigated the role of prediction errors in associative learning with Karl Friston and Klaas Enno Stephan. Following this, Hanneke worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Roshan Cools (Donders Institute, Nijmegen) and Nathaniel Daw (Department of Psychology, New York University) on the role of serotonin and dopamine in decision-making. In her research, she employs a combination of behavioural genetics, pharmacology, computational modelling and fMRI, and recently (intracranial) EEG. In 2012, she was awarded AXA and NWO-VENI fellowships to investigate the role of fronto-striatal coupling in the interaction of motivational and instrumental control at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, where she is now an assistant professor leading the Learning and Decision Making lab.