Nick Yeung PhD
Research Areas
Medical Sciences Division Themes
- Neuroscience
- Imaging
- Behavioural Science
Neuroscience Sub-Themes
- Systems, Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience
- Functional Brain Imaging
- Human Psychology, Mental Health and Psychiatry
Neuroscience Keywords
- Affective Neuroscience
- Attention
- Basal Ganglia
- Behaviour
- Brain Imaging
- Cognition
- Cognitive
- Cognitive Flexibility
- Computational Methods
- Computational Modelling
- Computational Models
- Cortex
- Decision
- Decision-Making
- Dopamine
- EEG
- Electroencephalography
- Electrophysiology
- ERP
- Executive Function
- fMRI
- Frontal Lobe
- Imaging
- Learning
- Learning and Memory
- Memory
- Modelling
- Neocortex
- Neural Networks
- Neuroeconomics
- Neuroimaging
- Neuroscience
- Prefrontal
- Prefrontal Cortex
- Priming
- Reward
- Working Memory
Techniques and Equipment
Group Members
- David Schwartzman, Lab manager
Collaborators
- Jonathan D. Cohen, Princeton University
- Sander Nieuwenhuis, Leiden University
- Alan Sanfey, University of Arizona
| Web | Personal Website |
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| Department | Department of Experimental Psychology |
| College | University College |
Dr. Nick Yeung
Our research investigates the neural mechanisms of attention and cognitive control. The broad question addressed by this research is how coherent thought and action emerge from processing in the brain. While much is now known about specific aspects of brain function—how we perceive the world, attend to particular details, remember facts and events, make decisions, etc.—much less is known about how these different functions become organised so that, at any given time, we can focus our attention on a particular task (or tasks) based on our current goals and intentions. Our research investigates the mechanisms responsible for imposing this organisation on our thoughts and actions.
A key component of our research is the development of computational models of attention and control processes. We use these models to inform the design and interpretation of our empirical work that combines behavioural, functional neuroimaging (fMRI), and scalp electrophysiological (EEG) methods. Below are some examples of recent research in the lab.
Sources of Funding
Biography
Awards Training and Qualifications
- 1996 BA in Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
- 2000 PhD in Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge
Selected Publications
- Yeung Nick and Cohen Jonathan D (2006) The impact of cognitive deficits on conflict monitoring. Predictable dissociations between the error-related negativity and N2. Psychol Sci, 17(2):164-71.
- Yeung Nick, Nystrom Leigh E, Aronson Jessica A, and Cohen Jonathan D (2006) Between-task competition and cognitive control in task switching. J Neurosci, 26(5):1429-38.
- Yeung Nick, Holroyd Clay B, and Cohen Jonathan D (2005) ERP correlates of feedback and reward processing in the presence and absence of response choice. Cereb Cortex, 15(5):535-44.
- Holroyd Clay B, Nieuwenhuis Sander, Yeung Nick, Nystrom Leigh, Mars Rogier B, Coles Michael GH, and Cohen Jonathan D (2004) Dorsal anterior cingulate cortex shows fMRI response to internal and external error signals. Nat Neurosci, 7(5):497-8.
- Yeung Nick and Sanfey Alan G (2004) Independent coding of reward magnitude and valence in the human brain. J Neurosci, 24(28):6258-64.
- Yeung Nick, Bogacz Rafal, Holroyd Clay B, and Cohen Jonathan D (2004) Detection of synchronized oscillations in the electroencephalogram: an evaluation of methods. Psychophysiology, 41(6):822-32.
- Yeung Nick, Cohen Jonathan D, and Botvinick Matthew M (2004) The neural basis of error detection: conflict monitoring and the error-related negativity. Psychol Rev, 111(4):931-59.
- Yeung Nick and Monsell Stephen (2003) The effects of recent practice on task switching. J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 29(5):919-36.
- Yeung Nick and Monsell Stephen (2003) Switching between tasks of unequal familiarity: the role of stimulus-attribute and response-set selection. J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 29(2):455-69.
