Dr Emma Scholey

I am a postdoctoral researcher working with Professor Michael Browning in the Computational Psychiatry lab based at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. I examine the behavioural, computational and neural mechanisms underlying habit formation and repetitive negative thoughts, and whether we can interfere with these processes using brain stimulation techniques.

I previously completed my PhD in Psychology at the University of Birmingham with Prof. Matthew Apps and Prof. Mark Humphries (University of Nottingham), funded by the Medical Research Council (IMPACT). My PhD research explored how people decide when to commit to an opportunity or forego it, especially when these opportunities require physical effort to pursue.