Education

MSc in Biostatistics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
BSc in Psychology, Tulane University

Research interests

My research focuses on effort-based decision-making and dysfunctional effort allocation for rewards. Specifically, I am using scalp EEG to identify event related potentials and oscillations associated with the encoding of the subjective value of effort costs and effort-related decision-making. In turn, we hope to apply these techniques to clinical populations with altered dopaminergic transmission (i.e. Parkison’s patients).

Publications

Lopez-Gamundi, P., & Wardle, M. C. (2018) The Cognitive Effort Expenditure for Rewards Task (C-EEfRT): A Novel Measure of Willingness to Expend Cognitive Effort. Psychological Assessment, 30(9), 1237-1248. doi:10.1037/pas0000563

Stamatovich, S., Lopez-Gamundi, P., Suchting, R., Colpo, G., Walss-Bass, C., Lane, S., Schmitz, J., Wardle, M. (submitted) Elastic net analysis of the relationship between immune biomarkers and cocaine use symptomatology.

Wardle, M. C., Lopez-Gamundi, P., & Flagel, S. (2018) Measuring appetitive conditioned responses in humans. Physiology & Behavior, 188, 140-150. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2018.02.004