Prof. Tom Schonberg
My laboratory is focused on the study of the neural basis of value-based decision-making and behavior change. We are interested in the process of how values are constructed by the brain, and thus could be perturbed and changed.
We design novel behavioral paradigms and use converging research tools to analyze them including structural and functional MRI, eye tracking, virtual reality and computational value-based decision-making models.
My training has always been interdisciplinary and I nurture this spirt. My laboratory is committed to promoting open, transparent, and reproducible scientific practices and thus all our studies are pre-registered, all research articles are submitted as pre-prints alongside the submission to a peer-reviewed journal, we share all of our task, analysis codes and data. We have also been pioneers with the registered-report format with one in-principle acceptance and one more are under review.
Behavioral Neuroscience
Computational & Theoretical Neuroscience
Imaging Research
- Botvinik-Nezer R., Roni Iwanir... and Schonberg T (In press. 197 co-authors in total). Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams. Nature.
- Schonberg T. and Katz NL. A neural pathway for non-reinforced preference change. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
- Salomon T., Botvinik Nezer R., Oren S., Schonberg T. Enhanced striatal and prefrontal activity is associated with individual differences in nonreinforced preference change for faces. Human Brain Mapping.
- Botvinik-Nezer R., Salomon T., Schonberg T. (2019) Enhanced bottom-up and reduced top-down neural mechanisms drive long-lasting non-reinforced behavioral change. Cerebral Cortex.
- Schonberg T., Bakkour A., Hover A. M., Mumford J. A., Nagar L., Perez J., Poldrack, R. A. (2014) Changing value through cued approach: An automatic mechanism of behavior change. Nature Neuroscience, 17: 625-630.
