By Dr Poppy Watson

Journal articles

Le Pelley ME; Watson P; Wiers RW, 2024, 'Biased choice and incentive salience: Implications for addiction', Behavioral neuroscience, 138, pp. 235 - 243, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/bne0000583

Watson P; Prior K; Ridley N; Monds L; Manning V; Wiers RW; Le Pelley ME, 2024, 'Sign-tracking to non-drug reward is related to severity of alcohol-use problems in a sample of individuals seeking treatment', Addictive Behaviors, 154, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2024.108010

Denson TF; Watson P; Yeong A; Armstrong A; Beames JR; Bertsch K, 2024, 'Eye tracking shows no substantive relationships between individual differences related to aggression and visual attention to unambiguously violent stimuli', Personality and Individual Differences, 217, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2023.112425

Le JT; Watson P; Le Pelley ME, 2024, 'Effects of outcome revaluation on attentional prioritisation of reward-related stimuli', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17470218241236711

Watson P; Thrailkill EA; Corbit LH; Bouton ME, 2024, 'Introduction to the special issue: Goal direction and habit in operant behavior', Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 121, pp. 3 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jeab.901

Mahlberg J; Pearson D; Le Pelley ME; Watson P, 2024, 'Prospective Distractor Information Reduces Reward-Related Attentional Capture', Journal of Cognition, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/joc.375

Freichel R; Mrkonja L; de Jong PJ; Cousijn J; Franken I; Ruiter TA; Le Pelley M; Albertella L; Watson P; Veer IM; Wiers RW, 2023, 'Value-modulated attentional capture in reward and punishment contexts, attentional control, and their relationship with psychopathology', Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20438087231204166

Watson P; Gladwin TE; Verhoeven AAC; de Wit S, 2023, 'Investigating habits in humans with a symmetrical outcome-revaluation task', Behavior Research Methods, 55, pp. 2687 - 2705, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-01922-4

Watson P; Mahlberg J, 2023, 'Mechanisms underlying performance in a cued go/no-go Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer paradigm', Behavioural Brain Research, 446, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2023.114413

Watson P; Onie S, 2023, 'Images of Australian alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages: A validation dataset', Data in Brief, 47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.108914

Watson P; O'Callaghan C; Perkes I; Bradfield L; Turner K, 2022, 'Making habits measurable beyond what they are not: A focus on associative dual-process models', Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 142, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104869

Watson P; Pavri Y; Le J; Pearson D; Le Pelley ME, 2022, 'Attentional capture by signals of reward persists following outcome devaluation', Learning and Memory, 29, pp. 181 - 191, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/lm.053569.122

Le Pelley ME; Ung R; Mine C; Most SB; Watson P; Pearson D; Theeuwes J, 2022, 'Reward learning and statistical learning independently influence attentional priority of salient distractors in visual search', Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 84, pp. 1446 - 1459, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-021-02426-7

Pearson D; Watson P; Albertella L; Le Pelley ME, 2022, 'Attentional economics links value-modulated attentional capture and decision-making', Nature Reviews Psychology, 1, pp. 320 - 333, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s44159-022-00053-z

Smith VM; Watson P; Most SB, 2022, 'Enhanced recognition of emotional images is not affected by post-exposure exercise-induced arousal', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 75, pp. 1056 - 1066, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17470218211054950

Watson P; Le Pelley ME, 2021, 'A meta-analysis of the relationship between eating restraint, impaired cognitive control and cognitive bias to food in non-clinical samples', Clinical Psychology Review, 89, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2021.102082

Frank-Podlech S; Watson P; Verhoeven AAC; Stegmaier S; Preissl H; de Wit S, 2021, 'Competing influences on healthy food choices: Mindsetting versus contextual food cues', Appetite, 166, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2021.105476

Ciria LF; Watson P; Vadillo MA; Luque D, 2021, 'Is the habit system altered in individuals with obesity? A systematic review', Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 128, pp. 621 - 632, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.07.006

Le JT; Watson P; Begg D; Albertella L; Le Pelley ME, 2021, 'Physiological and subjective validation of a novel stress procedure: The Simple Singing Stress Procedure', Behavior Research Methods, 53, pp. 1478 - 1487, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-020-01505-1

Watson P; Vasudevan A; Pearson D; Le Pelley ME, 2021, 'Eating restraint is associated with reduced attentional capture by signals of valuable food reward', Appetite, 159, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2020.105050

Pearson D; Watson P; Le Pelley ME, 2021, 'How do competing influences of selection history interact? A commentary on Luck et al. (2021)', Visual Cognition, 29, pp. 552 - 555, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2021.1912234

Mikhael S; Watson P; Anderson BA; Pelley MEL, 2021, 'You Do It to Yourself: Attentional Capture by Threat-Signaling Stimuli Persists Even When Entirely Counterproductive', Emotion, 21, pp. 1691 - 1698, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0001003

Watson P; Pearson D; Le Pelley ME, 2020, 'Reduced attentional capture by reward following an acute dose of alcohol', Psychopharmacology, 237, pp. 3625 - 3639, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00213-020-05641-6

Luque D; Molinero S; Watson P; López FJ; Le Pelley ME, 2020, 'Measuring habit formation through goal-directed response switching', Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149, pp. 1449 - 1459, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0000722

Watson P; Pearson D; Theeuwes J; Most SB; Le Pelley ME, 2020, 'Delayed disengagement of attention from distractors signalling reward', Cognition, 195, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104125

Pearson D; Watson P; Cheng P; Le Pelley ME, 2020, 'Overt attentional capture by reward-related stimuli overcomes inhibitory suppression.', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 46, pp. 489 - 501, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000728

Watson P; Pearson D; Most SB; Theeuwes J; Wiers RW; Le Pelley ME, 2019, 'Attentional capture by Pavlovian reward-signalling distractors in visual search persists when rewards are removed', PLoS ONE, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226284

Albertella L; Watson P; Yücel M; Le Pelley ME, 2019, 'Persistence of value-modulated attentional capture is associated with risky alcohol use', Addictive Behaviors Reports, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.abrep.2019.100195

Watson P; Pearson D; Chow M; Theeuwes J; Wiers RW; Most SB; Le Pelley ME, 2019, 'Capture and Control: Working Memory Modulates Attentional Capture by Reward-Related Stimuli', Psychological Science, 30, pp. 1174 - 1185, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797619855964

Le Pelley ME; Watson P; Pearson D; Abeywickrama RS; Most SB, 2019, 'Winners and losers: Reward and punishment produce biases in temporal selection', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 45, pp. 822 - 833, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000612

Watson P; Pearson D; Wiers RW; Le Pelley ME, 2019, 'Prioritizing pleasure and pain: attentional capture by reward-related and punishment-related stimuli', Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 26, pp. 107 - 113, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2018.12.002

Watson P; Wiers RW; Hommel B; de Wit S, 2018, 'Motivational sensitivity of outcome-response priming: Experimental research and theoretical models', Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 25, pp. 2069 - 2082, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-018-1449-2

Watson P; van Wingen G; de Wit S, 2018, 'Conflicted between goal-directed and habitual control, an fMRI investigation', eNeuro, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0240-18.2018

Watson P; de Wit S, 2018, 'Current limits of experimental research into habits and future directions', Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 20, pp. 33 - 39, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2017.09.012

Verhoeven AAC; Watson P; de Wit S, 2018, 'Failing to pay heed to health warnings in a food-associated environment', Appetite, 120, pp. 616 - 626, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2017.10.020

van Steenbergen H; Watson P; Wiers RW; Hommel B; de Wit S, 2017, 'Dissociable corticostriatal circuits underlie goal-directed vs. cue-elicited habitual food seeking after satiation: evidence from a multimodal MRI study', European Journal of Neuroscience, 46, pp. 1815 - 1827, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejn.13586

Albertella L; Copeland J; Pearson D; Watson P; Wiers RW; Le Pelley ME, 2017, 'Selective attention moderates the relationship between attentional capture by signals of nondrug reward and illicit drug use', Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 175, pp. 99 - 105, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2017.01.041

Watson P; Wiers RW; Hommel B; Gerdes VEA; de Wit S, 2017, 'Stimulus control over action for food in obese versus healthy-weight individuals', Frontiers in Psychology, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00580

Watson P; Wiers RW; Hommel B; Ridderinkhof KR; de Wit S, 2016, 'An associative account of how the obesogenic environment biases adolescents' food choices', Appetite, 96, pp. 560 - 571, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2015.10.008

Watson P; Van Steenbergen H; De Wit S; Wiers RW; Hommel B, 2015, 'Limits of ideomotor action-outcome acquisition', Brain Research, 1626, pp. 45 - 53, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2015.02.020

Watson P; Wiers RW; Hommel B; De Wit S, 2014, 'Working for food you don't desire. Cues interfere with goal-directed food-seeking', Appetite, 79, pp. 139 - 148, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2014.04.005

Cousijn J; Watson P; Koenders L; Vingerhoets WAM; Goudriaan AE; Wiers RW, 2013, 'Cannabis dependence, cognitive control and attentional bias for cannabis words', Addictive Behaviors, 38, pp. 2825 - 2832, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2013.08.011

Watson P; Korjoukov I; Vartak D; Roelfsema PR, 2013, 'Luminance contrast has little influence on the spread of object-based attention', Vision Research, 85, pp. 90 - 103, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2012.12.010

Watson P; de Wit S; Cousijn J; Hommel B; Wiers RW, 2013, 'Motivational Mechanisms Underlying the Approach Bias to Cigarettes', JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, 4, pp. 250 - 262, http://dx.doi.org/10.5127/jep.030512

Watson P; de Wit S; Hommel B; Wiers RW, 2012, 'Motivational mechanisms and outcome expectancies underlying the approach bias toward addictive substances', Frontiers in Psychology, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00440

de Wit S; Watson P; Harsay HA; Cohen MX; van de Vijver I; Ridderinkhof KR, 2012, 'Corticostriatal connectivity underlies individual differences in the balance between habitual and goal-directed action control', Journal of Neuroscience, 32, pp. 12066 - 12075, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1088-12.2012

Cavanagh JF; Neville D; Cohen MX; deVijver IV; Harsay H; Watson P; Buitenweg JI; Ridderinkhof KR, 2012, 'Individual differences in risky decision-making among seniors reflect increased reward sensitivity', Frontiers in Neuroscience, pp. 1 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2012.00111

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