Setayesh Radkani

Setayesh’s research focuses on understanding the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying social learning and decision-making. During her PhD at MIT, she combined behavioral experiments and computational modeling to investigate how adults and children learn from punishment by reasoning about their social world (i.e., people and social structures). She also studied the neural mechanisms of how social evidence obtained through observation is integrated with one’s direct experience to guide adaptive decisions. Currently, she uses functional neuroimaging to study how large-scale brain networks and their interactions support social reasoning and decision-making.