Rate My Professor Alison Harris

A cognitive neuroscientist, Dr. Harris directs the Decision Neuroscience Laboratory at Claremont McKenna College, utilizing event-related potentials to investigate the neural dynamics of perception, cognition, and decision-making. Her research specializations include decision neuroscience and neuroeconomics, addressing topics such as self-control mechanisms, effort-based cost-benefit valuation, dietary self-control, social status influences on fairness, and multi-attribute choice processes. Key publications encompass 'Temporal dynamics of decision making: A synthesis of computational and neurophysiological approaches' (2021, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science); 'Accounting for taste: A multi-attribute neurocomputational model explains the neural dynamics of choices for self and others' (2018, Journal of Neuroscience); 'Temporal dynamics of sensorimotor networks in effort-based cost-benefit valuation: Early emergence and late net value integration' (2016, Journal of Neuroscience); 'Temporally dissociable mechanisms of self-control: Early attentional filtering versus late value modulation' (2013, Journal of Neuroscience); and 'Dynamic construction of stimulus values in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex' (2011, PLoS ONE). Among her honors are the National Science Foundation Graduate Student Fellowship (2000-2003) and the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship (1999).