Professor in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience; areas of expertise are visual cognition, decision-making, consumer choice, & user experience
Joined July 2011
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Can #brainstimulation help #gambling #addiction? Our new article in Addictive Behaviors on effects of "Neuromodulation of dorsal and ventral prefrontal cortex during gambling task performance in low and high impulsive individuals" sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Our new article is out published in Heliyon (open access):
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It shows that noninvasive brain stimulation using transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) improves reflective thinking in judgment and decision making tasks.
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ONE MONTH to go for those submitting abstracts. It'll be a fantastic meeting!
Annual Meeting:
Cardiff University
12-13 September 2023
Deadline for submission of abstracts for posters & talks is 17th April 2023
Early-bird registration is open until 16th June 2023
See bacn.co.uk/conferences for more details!
#Problemgambling Disordered Gambling rates in the UK may be underestimated (#gamblingaddiction) - new published research springer.com/journal/11469 available as preprint researchgate.net/publication…
BACN is co-organising a seminar series, the first talk is on the 19th Jan with A. Caramazza, do spread the word: world-wide.org/Neuro/British…
Our article on eye-tracking the centre-preference effect tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… now published - strong evidence that the CP for similar items is driven by a centre stage heuristic (rather than due to attention).
Our overview article on pension Trustee decision-making (& biases) published today pensions-pmi.org.uk in Pension Aspects bit.ly/3t4slrm. Our full report commissioned by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries actuaries.org.uk at bit.ly/3237nNq
The new deadline for submitting an article for Frontiers special research topic on "Improving financial decisions" is now 21st June 2021. We invite researchers from all related fields to submit their work.
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#jdmresearch #decisionscience
Our study on surrogate decision-making in pension trustees just published - Trustees choose significantly higher pension replacement rates for members than members themselves; and choose rates higher than current benchmarks repository.uel.ac.uk/item/89…
Congratulations to @elenagvicent for her successful Viva of her PhD: "Cognitive and physiological assessment of prefrontal cortex neuromodulation in low and high risk gambling!" Excellent Work!
Our new paper Cognitive Predictors of Precautionary Behavior During the #COVID19 Pandemic frontiersin.org/article/10.3… - understanding the transmission mechanism increases compliance, but some surprising findings, too
I am excited to be co-editing a Frontiers special research topic on "Improving financial decisions" (Manuscript deadline 31st March 2021). We invite researchers from all related fields to consider submitting their work.
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#jdmresearch #decisionscience
We are looking for participants in an online survey on thinking processes related to general and financial decision-making. Its less than 15 minutes and should be fun! uelpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jf…
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A huge thank you to @smartinezconde @tomfoulsh @johkaa2 @gboccignone @sharnajamadar @volkergeist @chrismontag77 @neurometrology @tpele77 @iaingilchrist1 @neuroniklas @drtimholmes @krajbichlab @cogscinl @dseernani to name but a few!
1015 pages, 59 authors, 35 advisory board members, 23 chapters, 6 years in the making: Our textbook on eye movement research is now published! Thanks so much everyone for their wonderful contributions which made this possible! #eyemovements #theeyeshaveit link.springer.com/book/10.10…
Our new article on visual imagery and synaesthetic experiences now published in Philosophiocal Transactions B @RSocPublishing in the special edition ‘Bridging senses: novel insights from synaesthesia’: royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
Congratulations to our PhD candidate @elenagvicent for her review paper on #brainstimulation
in #behavioraladdictions in the American Journal of Addictions!
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Our new article on improving #userexperiencedesign through #Agile collaboration between designers and developers now published - International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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„Thinking dispositions and cognitive reflection performance in schizotypy“ - New paper with @volkergeist out now in JDM! journal.sjdm.org/18/181114/j…