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Overview

Nick Yeung is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Neuroscience, with considerable contributions to Cognitive Neuroscience. Yeung's work spans multiple subfields including General Decision Sciences, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Sociology and Political Science, and Social Psychology.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas, prominently including:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions

Nick Yeung has published several papers in key academic journals. Recent works include:

  • "The role of decision confidence in advice-taking and trust formation." (2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology General)
  • "Response-based outcome predictions and confidence regulate feedback processing and learning" (2021, eLife)
  • "Confidence, advice seeking and changes of mind in decision making" (2021, Cognition)
  • "Dissociating expectancy-based and experience-based control in task switching." (2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance)
  • "The effects of recursive communication dynamics on belief updating" (2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)

The venues where Yeung frequently publishes research include:

  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Cognition
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Yeung has collaborated regularly with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Niccolò Pescetelli
  • Matthew Davidson
  • Maja Friedemann
  • Sriraj Aiyer
  • Nomi Carlebach

Best Publications

  • The neural basis of error detection: conflict monitoring and the error-related negativity.

    Nick Yeung;Matthew M. Botvinick;Jonathan D. Cohen

  • Electrophysiological correlates of anterior cingulate function in a go/no-go task: Effects of response conflict and trial type frequency

    Sander Nieuwenhuis;Nick Yeung;Wery van den Wildenberg;K. Richard Ridderinkhof

  • Independent Coding of Reward Magnitude and Valence in the Human Brain

    Nick Yeung;Alan G. Sanfey

  • Metacognition in human decision-making: confidence and error monitoring.

    Nick Yeung;Christopher Summerfield

  • Motivation of extended behaviors by anterior cingulate cortex

    Clay B. Holroyd;Nick Yeung

  • On the ERN and the significance of errors.

    Greg Hajcak;Jason S. Moser;Nick Yeung;Robert F. Simons

  • Dorsal anterior cingulate cortex shows fMRI response to internal and external error signals

    Clay B Holroyd;Sander Nieuwenhuis;Sander Nieuwenhuis;Nick Yeung;Leigh Nystrom

  • ERP Correlates of Feedback and Reward Processing in the Presence and Absence of Response Choice

    Nick Yeung;Clay B. Holroyd;Jonathan D. Cohen

  • The roles of cortical oscillations in sustained attention

    Michael S. Clayton;Nick Yeung;Roi Cohen Kadosh

  • Errors in reward prediction are reflected in the event-related brain potential.

    Clay B. Holroyd;Sander Nieuwenhuis;Nick Yeung;Jonathan D. Cohen

  • Supra-personal cognitive control and metacognition

    Nicholas Shea;Annika Boldt;Dan Bang;Nick Yeung

  • On the relationship between anxiety and error monitoring: a meta-analysis and conceptual framework.

    Jason S. Moser;Tim P. Moran;Hans S. Schroder;M. Brent Donnellan

  • Switching between tasks of unequal familiarity: the role of stimulus-attribute and response-set selection.

    Nick Yeung;Stephen Monsell

  • Sensitivity of Electrophysiological Activity from Medial Frontal Cortex to Utilitarian and Performance Feedback

    Sander Nieuwenhuis;Nick Yeung;Clay B. Holroyd;Aaron Schurger

  • Reconfiguration of task-set: is it easier to switch to the weaker task?

    Stephen Monsell;Nick Yeung;Rayna Azuma

  • Between-task competition and cognitive control in task switching.

    Nick Yeung;Leigh E. Nystrom;Jessica A. Aronson;Jonathan D. Cohen

  • Activity in human reward-sensitive brain areas is strongly context dependent.

    Sander Nieuwenhuis;Dirk J. Heslenfeld;Niels J. Alting von Geusau;Rogier B. Mars;Rogier B. Mars

  • Decision Processes in Human Performance Monitoring

    Marco Steinhauser;Nick Yeung

  • The Impact of Cognitive Deficits on Conflict Monitoring Predictable Dissociations Between the Error-Related Negativity and N2

    Nick Yeung;Jonathan D. Cohen

  • Detection of synchronized oscillations in the electroencephalogram: An evaluation of methods

    Nick Yeung;Rafal Bogacz;Clay B. Holroyd;Jonathan D. Cohen;Jonathan D. Cohen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan D. Cohen
Jonathan D. Cohen Princeton University
Clay B. Holroyd
Clay B. Holroyd University of Victoria
Matthew Botvinick
Matthew Botvinick Yale University
Roi Cohen Kadosh
Roi Cohen Kadosh University of Surrey
Michael Cole
Michael Cole University of East London
Rogier B. Mars
Rogier B. Mars University of Oxford
Florian Waszak
Florian Waszak Université Paris Cité
Winrich A. Freiwald
Winrich A. Freiwald Rockefeller University
Marco Steinhauser
Marco Steinhauser Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Werner Sommer
Werner Sommer Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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