Brain imaging of decision-making in traffic emergencies

Start date: 1 April 2018
End date: 31 July 2019
Funder: Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund
Value: £50,000
Primary investigator: Professor Gustav Markkula

In this "discipline-hop" to the School of Psychology, Dr Markkula is investigating how existing methods for electroencephalography (EEG) observation of decision-making processes can be adapted and applied in the context of driver behaviour in safety-critical traffic situations.

The co-investigator for this project is Jac Billington, School of Psychology.