Jan Zimmermann, Ph.D.

Jan Zimmermann is associate professor in the Department of Neuroscience and the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR) at the University of Minnesota as well as the Medical Discovery Team and CMRR non-human primate division director. His lab studies how the brain represents and constructs subjective value and how that signal is used to guide decision making. The lab is particularly interested in how the brain adaptively changes its coding strategy to encode statistical regularities within a changing environment. Using electrophysiology, ultra high field MRI and computational modeling, the lab tries to understand the neural mechanisms of complex cognitive behaviors.