Nick Yeung, Ph.D.
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
'Confidence, Trust and Adaptive Decision Making'
I am a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. I received my Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Cambridge, working with Stephen Monsell on cognitive control in task switching.
I then completed a postdoc at Princeton University with Jonathan Cohen, investigating how people detect their errors and learn from them, before holding lectureships at Carnegie Mellon University and then Oxford (since 2006). My research investigates human attention, memory, and decision making using a combination of behavioral, computational, and brain imaging techniques.
A current focus of my research is on how people judge and communicate confidence in their decisions, and the way these confidence judgements contribute to adaptive decision making in individuals and groups. As well as basic lab research, I'm interested in applying these findings to real-world questions such as how to improve medical decision making and training, and how to optimise human-machine teaming when people interact with automated and artificial intelligence systems.