Richard Piech
Post-doctoral Fellow
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Office: 402 Wilson Hall
Phone: 615-322-5540
Fax: 615-343-0889
Degrees
- Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Wales, Bangor (2008)
- Diplom (M.S.) in Psychology, University of Freiburg (2002)
Research Area
- I am interested in value-based decision making and its dependence on situational variables like motivation. I investigate the role of such processes in eating and substance use.
Representative Publications
- Piech RM, Pastorino MT, Zald DH. All I saw was the cake: Hunger effects on attentional capture by visual food cues. In press: Appetite.
- Piech RM, Lewis J, Parkinson CH, Owen AM, Roberts AC, Downing PE, Parkinson JA. Neural correlates of affective influence on choice. In press: Brain and Cognition.
- 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 RM, Hampshire A, Owen AM, Parkinson JA. (2009) Modulation of cognitive flexibility by hunger and desire. Cognition & Emotion, 23(3), 528-540.
- Nestor PG, Piech R, Allen C, Niznikiewicz M, Shenton M, McCarley RW (2005). Retrieval induced forgetting in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 75 (2-3), 2005, 199-209.
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