Eva R. Pool

About

My research focuses on the development of a deeper understanding of the psychological and neural mechanisms underlying reward-seeking behavior. More particularly, I am interested in gaining insights into how and why the human brain is vulnerable to situations where choice behavior is hijacked in service of outcomes that are no longer valued by the individual. To address these questions, I use a large variety of experimental procedures as well as meta-analyses and systematic literature reviews.

In my research, I try to develop methods that combine theoretical frameworks and experimental paradigms developed through the study of animal behavior with psychophysiological techniques and fMRI protocols in healthy human volunteers.

Employment

• University of Geneva Assistant Professor
  2023 - Present
• Université de Genève Senior Researcher and Lecturer
  2017 - Present
• California Institute of Technology Post Doctoral Student
  ? - 2017
• Université de Genève Doctoral student
  ? - 2015

Education

• Université de Genève Ph.D
  ? - 2015
• Université de Genève M.sc.
  ? - 2011
• University of Fribourg B.sc
  ? - 2009

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (32)

• Plastic brain mechanisms supporting reduction in cravings induced by response training
  Imaging Neuroscience 2026 DOI: 10.1162/IMAG.a.1180
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• Differential influence of habit components on compulsive and problematic reward-seeking behavior
  PLOS Mental Health 2025 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmen.0000323
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• Neural substrates of parallel devaluation-sensitive and devaluation-insensitive Pavlovian learning in humans
  Nature Communications 2023 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-43747-5
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• Neural substrates of parallel devaluation-sensitive and devaluation-insensitive Pavlovian learning in humans
  2023 DOI: 10.1101/2023.01.26.525637
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• Multicomponential affective processes modulating food-seeking behaviors
  Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2022.101226
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• Differential influence of habit components on compulsive and problematic reward-seeking behavior
  2022 DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/jr6m4
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• Does GLP-1 receptor agonist liraglutide alter food-related sensory pleasure in patients with obesity? A randomized controlled trial
  [] 2022 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1722974/v1
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• Differential Contributions of Ventral Striatum Subregions to the Motivational and Hedonic Components of the Affective Processing of Reward
  The Journal of Neuroscience 2022 DOI: 10.1101/2021.05.02.442349
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• Determining the effects of training duration on the behavioral expression of habitual control in humans: a multilaboratory investigation
  Learning & Memory 2022 DOI: 10.1101/lm.053413.121
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• Individual concerns modulate reward-related learning and behaviors involving sexual outcomes.
  Motivation Science 2021 DOI: 10.1037/mot0000249
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