Very happy to report two new papers, both investigating the effects of reward association on naturalistic human vision.
Hickey, Kaiser and Peelen (2015). Reward guides attention to object categories in real-world scenes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(1). <link>
Hickey and Peelen (2015). Neural mechanisms of incentive salience in naturalistic human vision. Neuron, 85, 512-518.
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Alisha Siebold has joined the lab as postdoctoral fellow. Alisha’s position is funded by the Provincia Autonoma di Trento Grandi Progetti grant ‘ATTEND’, and she’ll be using eye tracking and EEG to investigate plasticity in vision. Welcome Alisha!
The ‘Motivated Cognition Lab’ is headed by Clayton Hickey and housed in the Center for Human Brain Health, University of Birmingham, UK. The lab is generously supported by the European Research Council.
