Emma Scholey

I am a final year PhD student in Psychology at the Motivation and Social Neuroscience lab based at the Centre for Human Brain Health, University of Birmingham.

Working with Prof. Matthew Apps and Prof. Mark Humphries, I examine the behavioural, computational and neural mechanisms underlying human decision-making, learning and motivation.

My research explores how people decide when to commit to an opportunity or forego it, especially when these opportunities require physical effort to pursue. I study the brain anatomy and dopaminergic mechanisms that contribute to how we learn about the opportunity costs of the environment, and how this influences our motivation.

Funded by the Medical Research Council (IMPACT).