Friederike Hedley
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Friederike Hedley
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PhD student @ University of Cambridge | computational psychiatry • cognitive neuroscience | Gates Scholar | 🧠🏃🏼‍♀️⛵️⛰️🍵 †
Under emotion-guided attention, fearful targets, presented in high (compared to low) spatial frequency, were better detected. This was also reflected in enhanced evidence accumulation, using drift diffusion modelling.

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November 22, 2025 at 5:19 PM
👉 doi.org/10.1037/emo0001595

In a series of experiments, we studied emotion-related decision making, namely the interaction of top-down (attention) and bottom-up (emotion expression, and spatial frequency) factors.
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November 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Reposted by Friederike Hedley
Press release on our new paper

Acute isolation is associated with increased reward seeking and reward learning in human adolescents.

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Teen loneliness triggers ‘reward seeking’ behaviour
A study has found that adolescents become highly motivated to seek rewards after just a few hours of social isolation. This may be beneficial in driving them
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September 5, 2025 at 10:05 AM