Doctoral Student for the Division of Work, Organizational and Economic Psychology
Twitter: @DFreinhofer
Research Group
PsychoEconomic Research Lab
Education:
- since 2018: Doctoral Studies at the Paris Lodron University Salzburg ( DK „Imaging the Mind“)
- 2015-2017: Master Degree Psychology at Paris Lodron University Salzburg
- 2012-2015: Bachelor Degree Psychology at Paris Lodron University Salzburg
Research Interests:
I examine the brain processes involved in making decisions and how psychiatric disorders affect both the observable decision making behavior and basic brain processes. To do this, I use imaging techniques (fMRI) and new methods to analyze behavioral data (“computational modeling”).
Key publications:
- Freinhofer, D., Schwartenbeck, P., Thon, N., Eigenberger, T., Aichhorn, W., Lenger, M., Wurst, F. M., & Kronbichler, M. (2020). Deficient decision making in pathological gamblers correlates with gray matter volume in medial orbitofrontal cortex. Frontiers in psychiatry, 11, 109.
