Daeyeol Lee PhD
Professor of Neurobiology and of Psychology
Departments & Organizations

Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Neuroscience
Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
Neurobiology: Kavli Institute for Neuroscience | Swartz Program in Theoretical Neurobiology
Stress & Addiction Clinical Research Program
Research Interests
Neural mechanisms of sequence learning and selection; Neural mechanisms of decision making under uncertainty; Neural mechanisms of inter-temporal choice; Neural mechanisms of token & conditioned reinforcements; Reinforcement learning; Behavioral economics and game theory; Function of primate prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia; Coding and transmission of information in a population of neurons more...
Education
- Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1995
Selected Publications
- Lee D, Seo H, and Jung MW (2012) Neural basis of reinforcement learning and decision making. Annual Review of Neuroscience 35: 287-308
- Vickery TJ, Chun MM, and Lee D (2011) Ubiquity and specificity of reinforcement signals throughout the human brain. Neuron 72: 166-177
- Abe H and Lee D (2011) Distributed coding of actual and hypothetical outcomes in the orbital and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Neuron 70: 731-741.



