Mr James Peak

Mr James Peak

Postdoctoral Fellow
Science
School of Psychology

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Decision Neuroscience Laboratory at UNSW investigating the neural bases of goal-directed action. When referring to actions as goal-directed, we are specifying actions that are voluntary, flexible actions for the purpose of attaining specific goals, and these actions are critical to adaptive behaviour. There is considerable evidence to suggest that the learning and performance of goal-directed actions is dependent on activity within neural circuitry invo...

E-mail
j.peak@unsw.edu.au