Richard M. Piech
Piech RM, McHugo M, Smith SD, Dukic MS, Van Der Meer J, Abou-Khalil B, Most SB, Zald DH. (in press) Attentional capture by emotional stimuli is preserved in patients with amygdala lesions. Neuropsychologia.
Piech RM, McHugo M, Smith SD, Dukic MS, Van Der Meer J, Abou-Khalil B, Zald DH (2010). Fear-enhanced visual search persists after amygdala lesions. Neuropsychologia, 48(12), 3430-3435. Piech+2011_vs.pdf
Piech RM, Pastorino MT, Zald DH (2010). All I saw was the cake: Hunger effects on attentional capture by visual food cues. Appetite, 54, 579-582. Piech+2010_food.pdf
Piech RM, Lewis J, Parkinson CH, Owen AM, Roberts AC, Downing PE, Parkinson JA (2009). Neural correlates of affective influence on choice. Brain and Cognition, 72(2), 282-288. Piech+09_choice.pdf
Piech RM, Lewis J, Parkinson CH, Owen AM, Roberts AC, et al. (2009) Neural Correlates of Appetite and Hunger-Related Evaluative Judgments. PLoS ONE 4(8): e6581. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006581 Piech+Plos09.pdf
Piech RM, Hampshire A, Owen AM, Parkinson JA. (2009) Modulation of cognitive flexibility by hunger and desire. Cognition & Emotion, 23(3), 528-540. Piech+CEM09.pdf
Nestor PG, Piech R, Allen C, Niznikiewicz M, Shenton M, McCarley RW. (2005) Retrieval induced forgetting in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 75 (2-3), 199-209. Nestor+SRes05.pdf
Postdoctoral Fellow
Laboratory of John O’Doherty
Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Education
2008 Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Wales, Bangor, UK
2002 M.S. in Psychology, University of Freiburg, Germany
Research Interests
Social Neuroscience: how does the brain facilitate learning from the experiences of others?
Emotional processing: what characterizes emotional influences on cognition, and how are they achieved in the brain?
Decision Making: which factors influence choices in an uncertain environment, and which neuromodulators represent those factors?
Motivation: what underlies ‘wanting’ things like food and drugs?
Publications
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Most of my interests fall into the area of Affective Neuroscience. They include:
