Published in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2021
We find that when people plan movements under risk, they rely on simple heuristics rather than optimal decision-making strategies.
Recommended citation: Adkins, T.J., Lewis, R.L., and Lee, T.G. (2021). "Heuristics contribute to sensorimotor decision-making under risk." Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-021-01986-x
Published in Scientific Reports, 2021
We find that punishment and reward have dissociable effects on skill learning that are not due to loss aversion.
Recommended citation: Adkins, T.J., Bradley, G.S., and Lee, T.G. (2021). "Interactive effects of incentive value and valence on the performance of discrete action sequences." Scientific Reports. 11(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-88286-5
Published in Neuroimage, 2021
We find that rewards improve skilled performance and enhance action representations in the frontal cortex.
Recommended citation: Adkins, T.J. and Lee, T.G. (2021). "Reward modulates cortical representations of action." Neuroimage. 228, 117708. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117708
Published in Journal of Neurophysiology, 2020
We find that rewards improve skilled performance, especially when people are able to explictly plan their movements in advance.
Recommended citation: Anderson, S.P., Adkins, T.J., Bradley, G.S., and Lee, T.G. (2020). "Rewards interact with explicit knowledge to enhance skilled motor performance." Journal of Neurophysiology. 123(6), 2476-2490. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00575.2019