Jennifer L. O'Brien

Assistant Professor

Personal profile

About

Dr. O’Brien’s research focuses on the fundamental mechanisms behind perception, attention, and decision-making in healthy adults and in changes to these systems during normal and abnormal aging using both behavioral and neurophysiologicial methods. She is especially interested in the integral role that motivational value has in the way we perceive and attend to stimuli in our environment.

Education/Academic qualification

Bangor, Wales, UK, Ph.D., Bangor University

Psychology, Honors, B.A., University of South Florida

Mass Communications, Honors, B.A., University of South Florida

French, Honors, B.A., University of South Florida

Disciplines

  • Psychology
  • Cognitive Psychology