Michael Platt, Ph.D.
Phone: 919-668-0332
Rm. B243F LSRC Building
Research Drive
Durham, NC 27708
Email: platt AT neuro DOT duke DOT edu
Professor; Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Center for Neuroeconomic Studies
Neurobiology, School of Medicine
DIBS Faculty, DIBS Investigator, Member, DIBS Center
Research Description
The Platt lab is interested in the brain mechanisms responsible for making decisions, approached with a panoply of behavioral, neurophysiological, neuroimaging, pharmacological, and genetic techniques. Current research topics include (1) decision making under uncertainty, (2) social decision making, (3) outcome monitoring and learning from previous choices, (4) the explore/exploit dilemma, (5) anchoring and adjustment, and (6) developmental and genetic contributions to individual variation in choice behavior.
Education
Postdoctoral Fellow, New York University, Center for Neural Science
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1994
B.A., Yale University, 1989
Recent Publications
Watson, K.K., Ghodasra, J.H., Platt M.L. 2009. Serotonin transporter genotype modulates social reward and punishment in rhesus macaques. PLoS ONE 4(1):e4156. Epub 2009 Jan 14.
Hayden, B.Y., Nair, A., McCoy, A.N., and Platt, M.L. 2008. Posterior cingulate cortex mediates outcome-contingent allocation of behavior. Neuron 60(1):19-25.
Platt, M.L. and Huettel, S.A. 2008. Risky business: the neuroeconomics of decision making under uncertainty. Nature Neuroscience 11(4):398-403.
Research Areas
Research Topics
- Neural basis of decision-making
- Neural basis of social behavior
- Evolution of cognition
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