Research Interestspaul-fletcher
I am interested in higher level perceptual and learning processes, and how these shape decision-making and behaviour. In particular, I try to understand how individual variability in such processes may contribute to seemingly irrational choices that may have health-harming consequences. This is relevant not just to an array of mental disorders but also to over-consumption and obesity. I think that it is very important that we do not consider the brain in isolation from either the body or from its external environment and that the study of high level cognitive processes must be shaped by close consideration of underlying metabolic and endocrine signals.