The research group focuses on understanding the cognitive and neural mechanisms that underlie psychiatric symptoms, with a particular emphasis on disorders such as obsessive-compulsive disorder and psychosis. The central aim is to investigate how these mechanisms emerge, how they are linked to brain and cognitive development, and how they contribute to the onset and progression of mental illness.
To achieve this, the group combines approaches from cognitive neuroscience and computational psychiatry. Their work integrates behavioral experiments, neuroimaging techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and computational modelling to study how alterations in brain function give rise to changes in cognition and behavior. Importantly, much of this research is conducted with individuals who have lived experience of psychiatric disorders, ensuring that findings are clinically relevant.
