Approval of a BMBF Research Grant on Flexible, Goal-Directed Decision Making

23 February 2024, by Ugur Turhan

In collaboration with Prof. Amitai Shenhav from Brown University (soon: University of California at Berkeley) and Prof. Romy Frömer from the University of Birmingham, Sebastian Gluth received a research grant funded by the BMBF in Germany and the NSF in the USA (funding scheme: CRCNS - Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience) to study the neural and computational basis of goal-directed and flexible decisions (funding of the German side: 397k EUR plus 79k EUR overhead).

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