By Professor Mike Le Pelley

Journal articles

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

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

Pearson D; Piao M; Le Pelley ME, 2024, 'Value-modulated attentional capture is augmented by win-related sensory cues', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77, pp. 133 - 143, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17470218231160368

Chung LKH; Jack BN; Griffiths O; Pearson D; Luque D; Harris AWF; Spencer KM; Le Pelley ME; So SHW; Whitford TJ; Chung KHL, 2023, 'Neurophysiological evidence of motor preparation in inner speech and the effect of content predictability', Cerebral Cortex, 33, pp. 11556 - 11569, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhad389

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

Le Pelley M; Pearson D; Chong A, 2023, 'Reward variance outweighs reward value in modulating capture of visual attention', Journal of Vision, 23, pp. 5116 - 5116, http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/jov.23.9.5116

Griffiths O; Jack BN; Pearson D; Elijah R; Mifsud N; Han N; Libesman S; Rita Barreiros A; Turnbull L; Balzan R; Le Pelley M; Harris A; Whitford TJ, 2023, 'Disrupted auditory N1, theta power and coherence suppression to willed speech in people with schizophrenia', NeuroImage: Clinical, 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2022.103290

Vodovozov W; Reid J; Le Pelley M; Jack B; Spencer K; Whitford T, 2023, '12. Sensory Attenuation Elicited by Inner Speech and its Role for Auditory Hallucinations in Schizophrenia', Biological Psychiatry, 93, pp. S98 - S98, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2023.02.252

Whitford TJ; McDonogh C; Le Pelley ME; Jack BN, 2023, 'Exploring the effect of mental actions (inner speech) on electroencephalographic activity', International Journal of Psychophysiology, 188, pp. 31 - 32, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2023.05.079

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

Morris RW; Dezfouli A; Griffiths KR; Le Pelley ME; Balleine BW, 2022, 'The Neural Bases of Action-Outcome Learning in Humans', Journal of Neuroscience, 42, pp. 3636 - 3647, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1079-21.2022

Doyle FL; Klein L; Kemp LJ; Moul C; Richmond JL; Eapen V; Frick PJ; Kimonis ER; Hawes DJ; Le Pelley ME; Mehta D; Dadds MR, 2022, 'Learning to like triangles: A longitudinal investigation of evaluative conditioning in infancy', Developmental Psychobiology, 64, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/dev.22244

Lee JC; Pelley MEL; Lovibond PF, 2022, 'Nonreactive Testing: Evaluating the Effect of Withholding Feedback in Predictive Learning', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 48, pp. 17 - 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xan0000311

Sareen S; Doyle FL; Kemp LJ; Northam JC; Morgan BG; Kimonis ER; Richmond JL; Le Pelley ME; Eapen V; Frick PJ; Hawes DJ; Moul C; Mehta D; Dadds MR, 2022, 'Still connecting the dots: An investigation into infants' attentional bias to threat using an eye-tracking task', Infancy, 27, pp. 46 - 66, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/infa.12444

Cheng P; Rich AN; Le Pelley ME, 2021, 'Reward Rapidly Enhances Visual Perception', Psychological Science, 32, pp. 1994 - 2004, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09567976211021843

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

Vanunu Y; Hotaling JM; Le Pelley ME; Newell BR, 2021, 'How top-down and bottom-up attention modulate risky choice', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/PNAS.2025646118

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

Liu C; Yücel M; Suo C; Le Pelley ME; Tiego J; Rotaru K; Fontenelle LF; Albertella L, 2021, 'Reward-Related Attentional Capture Moderates the Association between Fear-Driven Motives and Heavy Drinking', European Addiction Research, 27, pp. 351 - 361, http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000513470

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

Onie S; Peterson MA; Le Pelley M; Most SB, 2021, 'Learned value and predictiveness affect gaze but not figure assignment', Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 83, pp. 156 - 172, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-020-02125-9

Mine C; Most SB; Le Pelley ME, 2021, 'Reward does not modulate the preview benefit in visual search', Visual Cognition, 29, pp. 248 - 262, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2021.1895941

Pearson D; Pelley MEL, 2021, 'Reward Encourages Reactive, Goal-Directed Suppression of Attention', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 47, pp. 1348 - 1364, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000946

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; Pavri Y; Le JT; Pearson D; Le Pelley M, 2021, 'Attentional capture by signals of reward persists following outcome devaluation', , http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/2jmpb

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

Albertella L; Le Pelley ME; Chamberlain SR; Westbrook F; Lee RSC; Fontenelle LF; Grant JE; Segrave RA; McTavish E; Yücel M, 2020, 'Reward-related attentional capture and cognitive inflexibility interact to determine greater severity of compulsivity-related problems', Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 69, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2020.101580

Le Pelley M; Cheng P, 2020, 'Reward modulates visual perception independently of consciousness', Journal of Vision, 20, pp. 204 - 204, http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/jov.20.11.204

Pearson D; Le Pelley ME, 2020, 'Learning to avoid looking: Competing influences of reward on overt attentional selection', Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 27, pp. 998 - 1005, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-020-01770-3

Rusz D; Le Pelley ME; Kompier MAJ; Mait L; Bijleveld E, 2020, 'Reward-Driven distraction: A meta-analysis', Psychological Bulletin, 146, pp. 872 - 899, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/bul0000296

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

Onie S; Peterson M; Le Pelley M; Most S, 2020, 'Learned Value and Predictiveness affect Gaze but not Figure Assignment', , http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/jc86k

Watson P; Pearson D; Le Pelley M, 2020, 'Reduced attentional capture by reward following an acute dose of alcohol', , http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ydb7u

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

Wills AJ; Edmunds CER; Le Pelley ME; Milton F; Newell BR; Dwyer DM; Shanks DR, 2019, 'Dissociable learning processes, associative theory, and testimonial reviews: A comment on Smith and Church (2018)', Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 26, pp. 1988 - 1993, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-019-01644-3

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

Walker AR; Luque D; Le Pelley ME; Beesley T, 2019, 'The role of uncertainty in attentional and choice exploration', Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 26, pp. 1911 - 1916, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-019-01653-2

Le Pelley ME; Newell BR; Nosofsky RM, 2019, 'Deferred Feedback Does Not Dissociate Implicit and Explicit Category-Learning Systems: Commentary on Smith et al. (2014)', Psychological Science, 30, pp. 1403 - 1409, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797619841264

Jack BN; Le Pelley ME; Han N; Harris AWF; Spencer KM; Whitford TJ, 2019, 'Inner speech is accompanied by a temporally-precise and content-specific corollary discharge', NeuroImage, 198, pp. 170 - 180, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.04.038

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

Albertella L; Le Pelley ME; Chamberlain SR; Westbrook F; Fontenelle LF; Segrave R; Lee R; Pearson D; Yücel M, 2019, 'Reward-related attentional capture is associated with severity of addictive and obsessive-compulsive behaviors', Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 33, pp. 495 - 502, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/adb0000484

Griffiths O; Shehabi N; Murphy RA; Le Pelley ME, 2019, 'Superstition predicts perception of illusory control', British Journal of Psychology, 110, pp. 499 - 518, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12344

Griffiths O; Le Pelley ME, 2019, 'The outcome predictability bias is evident in overt attention', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 45, pp. 290 - 300, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xan0000210

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

Pearson D; Watson P; Cheng P; Le Pelley M, 2019, 'Overt attentional capture by reward-related stimuli overcomes inhibitory suppression', Journal of Experimental Psychology, 46, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/db9hg

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