Research
Hello! My name is Lena and I am a PhD student in the CO3 lab. I am part of the ERC project EXPERIENCE which focuses on the function and value of phenomenal consciousness. My thesis focuses on the relationship between consciousness and motivation – is there such a thing as unconscious motivation? More specifically, my two main research questions are (1) does affective processing of a stimulus require conscious awareness of that stimulus, and (2) how does this affective processing guide our behavior? I try to answer these questions with various behavioral, physiological and neuroimaging measures.
