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Cognitive Neuroscientist
About Rachel Weisberg
In 2021, Rachel Weisberg led the first real-time fMRI study demonstrating how prefrontal-hippocampal coupling shifts *within seconds* when people override habitual choices, capturing neural inertia in action. Her lab’s open-source 'CircuitBreaker' toolkit, now used by 47 labs globally, lets researchers perturb specific gamma-band synchrony between dorsolateral PFC and anterior cingulate during value-based decisions, not just observe, but intervene. She refuses to call decisions 'rational' or 'irrational,' insisting instead on mapping the *temporal signature* of conflict resolution: how long a person holds competing options in working memory before commitment, and how that latency predicts later regret. Her work redefines agency not as a momentary choice but as a measurable decay curve of neural alternatives. Trained in both computational psychiatry and single-neuron recording, she bridges invasive primate data with non-invasive human imaging, never treating one as proxy for the other. Her 2023 paper on 'decisional afterimages', persistent neural traces that bias subsequent choices even when consciously forgotten, has reshaped clinical models of compulsive behavior.
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- “How do you measure 'neural inertia' in real time during a decision?”
- “What does your CircuitBreaker toolkit reveal about dopamine's role in option pruning?”
- “Can we detect decision regret before someone is aware of it, and if so, where in the brain?”
- “How do hippocampal theta-gamma couplings influence whether someone sticks with or abandons a plan?”
