Dr. Eike Buabang is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Gillan Lab. His primary research interest is the cognitive neuroscience of habits. Using experimental paradigms and EEG, he investigates how habits develop in the brain and explores implications for everyday and clinical applications. He is particularly interested in understanding why people engage in behaviors that are against their explicit beliefs and goals. These behaviors vary in severity from everyday action slips (e.g., entering an old password), to impulsive behaviors (e.g., eating unhealthy foods), and, on the extreme, compulsive behaviors (e.g., substance use or checking locks repetitively).
Eike is an awardee of the Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Irish Research Council for his project: “Understanding the mechanisms of habits and compulsivity: A neural decoding approach”. Prior to joining the Gillan Lab, Eike completed his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Agnes Moors at KU Leuven in Belgium, where he investigated and formalized goal-directed accounts of behaviors that are typically considered habitual. He also holds an M.Sc. (research) in Social & Organizational Psychology from Leiden University and a B.Sc. in Psychology from the University of Groningen.
Email: eike.buabang@tcd.ie
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