🎉I am truly grateful to all coauthors, participants, and my suprvisors @nbkroemer.bsky.social and Andreas Frick
It was a great pleasure to talk about my research on “Sex and menstrual cycle effects on effort based decision-making” at WCP 2025 🧠
Our work explores how adolescents’ developing brain networks influence reward learning. We compared adolescents (13–16) and adults (30–40) using a reward-learning task and resting-state fMRI, analyzed with a hierarchical Bayesian model.
💡These findings highlight how developing brain networks shape adolescent decision-making by balancing exploration and feedback learning.
🔍Key findings about Aadolescents:
➡️ Slower learning from feedback (lower learning rate)
➡️ More variable choices (lower inverse temperature)
➡️ Stronger reliance on fronto-striatal brain connectivity
📣 Happy to share that our paper with Johan Vegelius is published!
Title: “Developmental differences in reward-learning and its connection to resting-state functional connectivity modeled using a hierarchical Bayesian model”
Find the full paper here:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41478440/
📣Call for applications
We are recruiting the 2nd cohort of PhD students for the international research training group on women's mental health. If you care about translational pharmacoimaging work integrating hormonal states, please apply #neurojobs
jobs.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/Job/6598/PhD...
Adolescence is a period of heightened sensation-seeking, risk-taking, and reward sensitivity, characterized by structural and functional changes in the brain. Developmental changes in functional connectivity between cortical and subcortical regions may refine communication within reward-related circ …
