The Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative is a prominent research effort to identify individual differences in brain functions that place people at risk for mental and substance use disorders.
Since these functions are difficult to measure, this new R21 grant titled Efficiency of evidence accumulation (EEA) as a higher-order, computationally defined RDoC construct is aimed at improving the measurement using current insights from computational modeling. Alex Weigard, Ph.D. is the Principal Investigator along with Co-Investigators Adriene Beltz, Ph.D. and Brian Hicks, Ph.D.. The overall goal of this work is to simplify the RDoC matrix, improve the measurement of clinically relevant cognitive functions, and ground RDoC constructs in a precise computational framework with clearer links to neurobiology.
