Dr Rani Moran

Rani Moran
PhD, FHEA

Lecturer in Psychology

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Queen Mary University of London
www.qmul.ac.uk/sbbs/staff/rani-moran.html
Centre for Brain and Behaviour
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Research

Decision Making, Reinforcement Learning, Cognitive Maps, Human memory, Exploration Exploitation Dillema, Metacognition

Interests

Broadly, my research concerns the mechanisms supporting decision-making, memory and learning with a focus on how flexible control mechanisms guide behaviour. I seek to identify these mechanisms using cleverly crafted experimental designs, computational modelling, pharmacological manipulations, neuroimaging, and advanced statistical analysis of empirical data. My vision is that a better understanding of these processes will allow us to develop interventions promoting their effective usage.

Current interests include:
- Model Based and Model Free Reinforcement Learning
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- The Functions of Cognitive Maps
- Sequential Sampling Models of Evidence Accumulation
- Exploration-Exploitation Dilemma
- Learning biases elicited by Disinformation