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tanja.mueller@psy.ox.ac.uk

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Tanja Mueller

B.Sc., M.Sc.

D.Phil. Student (Motivation & Social Neuroscience Lab | Cognitive Neurology Lab)

Research summary

My present research focuses on the cognitive, neuroanatomical and neurobiological basis of fatigue and its impact on people's motivation and decisions on whether to engage in a task. To investigate the underlying mechanisms in both the healthy population and Parkinson's Disease patients, I use computational modelling approaches in combination with effort-based decision-making paradigms, self-report measures, and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI).

short Biography

I received a B.Sc. in Psychology from the University of Freiburg, Germany, before working as a research intern at Stanford University School of Medicine and the VA Palo Alto Health Care System in a project evaluating the effects of a breathing training and sleep hygiene treatment on psychological and physiological hyperarousal in veterans with PTSD. Following this, I completed an international M.Sc. programme in Neuro-Cognitive Psychology at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, focusing on research on visual attention and perception, and spent one term as a visiting student at St Catherine´s College, University of Oxford, studying Quantitative Methods and Social Psychology. Currently, I am a D.Phil. (Ph.D.) student at the Department of Experimental Psychology and New College, University of Oxford, supervised by Dr. Matthew Apps and Prof. Masud Husain.

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