Clay Holroyd, PhD

Dr. Holroyd is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Victoria. He is a CIHR New Investigator, a MSFHR Career Investigator, and a Founding Fellow of the UBC Institute of Mental Health. His research interests concern the neurobiological mechanisms that underlie cognitive control - how people regulate their attention, thoughts, and actions in accord with high-level goals and intentions. In particular, Dr. Holroyd investigates the brain systems that enable people to detect and correct their errors and to learn from the consequences of their actions. A major focus of his current research concerns the cognitive and neural mechanisms associated with childhood attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. To investigate these issues he adopts a variety of empirical and theoretical approaches, especially event-related brain potentials and computational modeling. Dr. Holroyd has authored or coauthored over 35 scholarly publications; his doctoral work on dopamine and reinforcement learning, published in 2002, has been cited over 230 times.

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Clay Holroyd, PhD
Department of Psychology
University of Victoria
PO Box 3050 STN CSC
Victoria, B.C. V8W 3P5
Canada