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Samuel McDougle is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Yale University, where he leads the Action, Computation, and Thinking (ACT) Lab. His research explores the interplay between cognitive processes and motor behavior using behavioral experiments, computational modeling, neuroimaging, and neuropsychology.
Research Interests: McDougle investigates how humans acquire and perform motor skills, emphasizing cognitive demands beyond habit formation. Key areas include instrumental learning, reinforcement learning, working memory, and sensorimotor adaptation, with applications to attention, metacognition, and brain-computer interfaces.
Recent Trends: His recent publications focus on dual-tasking in learning, memory of observed actions, spectrotemporal correlations in pitch detection, and the role of prediction errors in adaptation. The ACT Lab also studies attentional modulation by rewards and non-Markovian learning structures.
Scientific Awards:
- NIH R01 grant (2023)
Labs & Teams: The ACT Lab at Yale (100 College St.) conducts interdisciplinary research on motor cognition, recruiting PhD students and postdocs. The lab emphasizes collaborations between human learning and computational neuroscience.
