Core research areas:

  • Social behaviour and interactions: examining their forms, motivations, contextual determinants, and relationships to health and well-being
  • Touch perception: how we use touch to understand and engage with the world

Additional topics:

  • How social factors and internal states influence the processing of feedback and reward
  • Neural mechanisms of mood and psychiatric disorders
  • Mechanisms of reward valuation
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The group is associated with the Leknes Affective Brain lab