Thomas Sambrook

Thomas Sambrook is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of East Anglia's School of Psychology, affiliated with the Cognition, Action and Perception group. He holds a PhD from St Andrews University (primatology) and Plymouth University (cognitive neuroscience), with an M.Sc. in cognitive science from Birmingham University. His research focuses on decision-making processes, reinforcement learning, and computational modeling, using EEG and primary reinforcers like food and pain. He has supervised PhD student Harry Stewardson and MSc student Kerri Margrets-Kelly.

Teaching roles include Module Leader for Evolutionary Psychology (Year 3), lecturer for Cognitive and Biological Psychology (Year 2), and seminar leader for M.Sc. Psychology Lab Skills. He chairs the Psychology Research Ethics Committee and collaborates on projects like the aeon toolkit for machine learning with time series (funded by EPSRC) and an fMRI study on reward processing.

Recent research emphasizes neural correlates of decision-making, with publications exploring prediction errors, reward systems, and EEG applications. His work bridges behavioral economics, neuroeconomics, and instrumental conditioning theories.