McClure, Sam

new email is  <a href="mailto:samuel.mcclure@asu.edu">samuel.mcclure@asu.edu</a> ....  now at Ariz State  since 2015;

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Mar 21, 2013 08:12 PM

Asst Prof. Stfd: see website.

born May 1974 => age 39

PhD Neurosci  Baylor Col Med

Post-Doc Princeton with Jon Cohen

McClure's research focuses on reward processing and executive control in human decision-making. He approaches these problems using a combination of human neuroimaging (fMRI and EEG), behavioral studies, and computational models. His research has made fundamental contributions to understanding the function of the human dopamine system in learning and decision-making. These contributions include novel methodologies that permit direct measurement of activity from dopaminergic nuclei using fMRI. Additionally, he has investigated the interaction between brain reward systems and regions of neocortex implicated in executive control. His research in this area has elucidated neural interactions that underlie self-control processes as well as mechanisms underlying competitive behavior in social interactions. Research in McClure's lab group continues to pursue computational and neuroimaging approaches to understanding developmental and individual differences in self-control.

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Bio:

Samuel McClure has been studying the brain basis of reward learning and decision making for nearly two decades. After completing his B.A. at the University of Pennsylvania, he began as a Ph.D. student in Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine, where he combined computational modeling with fMRI to show how brain regions associated with the human dopamine system mediate reward learning. After his Ph.D., McClure worked a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Psychology Department at Princeton University. His work at Princeton focused on how people evaluate future rewards, and particularly on the role of the prefrontal cortex in this valuation process. McClure was an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at Stanford University from 2007-2015. He has been at ASU since 2015,  where he directs the Decision Neuroscience Lab in the Department of Psychology. He continues to combine computational modeling, behavioral and neuroimaging experiments to study how planning for the future combines with immediate reward expectation to guide behavior.

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