Researchers at the Decision Neuroscience Lab at the University of Melbourne are looking for volunteers for a study looking at the neuroscience of reward learning and decision making. Participants need to be between 18 and 35, right-handed, and be fluent in spoken and written English.

The experiment investigates the neural processing that takes place when people gather information during decision-making under uncertainty. To investigate this question, participants will complete a task in which they have to make a series of decisions regarding the probabilities of future events. Gathering information is a crucial component of decision-making, and is involved in many of the decisions we make every day. The experiment will consist of two sessions, on separate days: one 30-minute training session, and one two-hour testing session.

The experiment takes place in the Redmond Barry Building at The University of Melbourne, Parkville. The second session is an electroencephalography (EEG) study. This study involves completion of a computer task and questionnaires while researchers take measurements of your brain activity using a fabric cap and a number of scalp electrodes. This technique is non-invasive and poses no risk to you.

Depending on your performance in the tasks, you will receive monetary reimbursement between $20 - $35. For more information, please contact Daniel Bennett at decision.neuro.melb@gmail.com.