Department of Biopsychology

This review integrates animal and human evidence to examine how cue-triggered motivation and attention interact, and how these interactions are shaped by reward uncertainty, a dimension that has received limited interest in human research despite its robust effects in animals

Pigeons are powerful models for studying brain processes of learning and cognition. But up to now, researchers have lacked precise tools to investigate their brain activity in detail. Biopsychologists in Bochum are now changing that.