Professor Michael Aitken-Deakin Academics Professor of Experimental Psychology Head of Department, Psychology. Contact details michael.aitken@kcl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7848 6248
A re-examination of responding on ratio and regulated-probability interval schedules Let me take the wheel: Illusory control and sense of agency On the Counterfactual Nature of Gambling Near-misses: An Experimental Study Understanding self-reported difficulties in decision-making by people with autism spectrum disorders Human instrumental performance in ratio and interval contingencies: a challenge for associative theory Missed losses loom larger than missed gains: Electrodermal reactivity to decision choices and outcomes in a gambling task Dual effects of ‘losses disguised as wins’ and near-misses in a slot machine game Rates of Problematic Gambling in a British Homeless Sample: A Preliminary Study An Eye-tracking Study of Information Sampling and Decision-making Under Stress: Implications for Alarms in Aviation Emergencies Associations and propositions: The case for a dual-process account of learning in humans Effects of psychosocial stress on psychophysiological activity during risky decision-making in male adolescents Reply to Griffiths: The Relationship Between Gambling and Homelessness Ketamine effects on memory reconsolidation favor a learning model of delusions Physiological responses to near-miss outcomes and personal control during simulated gambling Risk-avoidant decision making increased by threat of electric shock Striatal sensitivity to personal responsibility in a regret-based decision-making task Whisker: a client-server high-performance multimedia research control system Decision making and executive function in male adolescents with early-onset or adolescence-onset conduct disorder and control subjects Differential engagement of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex by goal-directed and habitual behavior toward food pictures in humans Methylphenidate improves response inhibition but not reflection-impulsivity in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) Differential effects of insular and ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions on risky decision-making Orbitofrontal dysfunction in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and their unaffected relatives Disrupted prediction-error signal in psychosis: evidence for an associative account of delusions Lack of deleterious effects of buspirone on cognition in healthy male volunteers Predictors of punding in Parkinson's disease: results from a questionnaire survey Diagnosing and phenotyping visual synaesthesia: a preliminary evaluation of the revised test of genuineness (TOG-R) Frontal responses during learning predict vulnerability to the psychotogenic effects of ketamine: linking cognition, brain activity, and psychosis Simulations of a modified SOP model applied to retrospective revaluation of human causal learning Prediction error during retrospective revaluation of causal associations in humans: fMRI evidence in favor of an associative model of learning Risk taking during decision-making in normal volunteers changes with age The role of the lateral frontal cortex in causal associative learning: exploring preventative and super-learning Systemic sulpiride modulates striatal blood flow: relationships to spatial working memory and planning Decision-making processes following damage to the prefrontal cortex View all publications
13 August 2025 Department of Psychology celebrates 75 years This summer, the Department of Psychology brought together staff and students to mark a series of…