Laurence Hunt
D.Phil
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
- Associate Director, OxCIN
- Tutorial Fellow in Psychology, St John's College
Laurence Hunt heads the Laboratory of Decision Dynamics in the Department of Experimental Psychology. He studied pre-clinical Medicine at Cambridge University, before completing a DPhil in Neuroscience at the University of Oxford from 2007-11. He then moved to University College London on a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship from 2013-16, before returning to the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford in 2017 on a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship. He joined the Department of Experimental Psychology in April 2023. He currently serves as an Associate Director at the University's Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (OxCIN).
His research to date has primarily addressed the neural mechanisms by which we make decisions. To gain insight into these mechanisms, he has used mathematical models that make precise predictions of both behavioural and neural data. He tests these predictions using a range of techniques in both humans and animal models.
His current research focuses on a range of topics in cognitive computational neuroscience.
