We are currently recruiting healthy, right-handed participants, aged between 18-45 years.

You are invited to participate in a study that will examine the ability to control our responses to rewarding stimuli. The study utilises tasks under different conditions to examine the interplay of reward sensitivity, and risk.

Participants are required to attend the first session at the Redmond Barry Building, University of Melbourne, Parkville. A computerized task will require you to respond to a series of images displayed on a computer screen. To assess eligibility for the study, we will also ask you to complete questionnaires about your alcohol, and drug use behavior, as well as current and past medical and psychiatric history.

The second session will involve magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and will take place at the Royal Children’s Hospital.

You will be reimbursed $20 per hour for your time and additional payment commensurate with performance on tasks providing monetary rewards.

This experiment follows guidelines of the National Health and Medical Research Council statement on human experimentation and adheres to the ethical review process of the University of Melbourne.

For further information, or to volunteer to take part in the study, contact:

Evelyn Chen

School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne.

E-mail: eche@student.unimelb.edu.au