Benjamin Cowley

HiPerCog lab studies, and aims to develop a theory of, High Performance Cognition (HPC), which arises when a highly demanding dynamic cognitive task is performed with high skill. HPC is hypothesized to be due to tuning of attention processes. It generates subjective experience of Flow, and is a component of learning to perform to expert/optimal level. A key tenet of HPC is that it arises through learning of a demanding dynamic task. We work on projects studying skill learning in a range of tasks, including games, programming, and neurofeedback. Being interested in a multi-modal picture of human cognition, we also develop methods for measurement of behaviour (data mining), psychophysiology, and brain imaging (EEG).