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Audrey Weil

Faculty
Department of Psychology
  • Associate Professor of Psychology

Audrey Weil

Audrey Weil's work focuses on understanding a person's ability to control their own thoughts and behaviors. Previously she investigated this in the context of individual differences in medical risk estimation. Her more recent work focuses on frontal midline theta and fronto-parietal theta coherence. Both are patterns of neural activity that have been recently implicated as general mechanisms for cognitive control. Her current line of research focuses on how these neural patterns are effected by substance use and how changes in these may lead to further risky decisions and behaviors.

 

Education

  • Ph.D., Miami University, 2017
  • M.A., Miami University, 2014
  • B.A., Hope College, 2012

Academic Expertise

  • EEG
  • Cognitive Control
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Substance Use
  • Judgement and Decision Making
  • Cognitive Psychology

With my expertise on cognitive neuroscience and substance use, I often work with students on a variety of exciting research initiatives. Recent student-driven research includes projects on how music effects different patterns of brain activity, how traumatic brain injuries impacts attentional control and related brain activity, and the importance of harm reduction education for people who aren't substance users.

  • Certificate in College Teaching from Miami University in 2014
  • Visiting Assistant Professor at Miami University 2017-2018
  • Weil, A. M., & Wolfe, C. R. (2022). Individual differences in risk perception and misperception of COVID‐19 in the context of political ideology. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 36(1), 19-31.
  • Weil, A., Jaycox, C., & Ngo, J. (2021). Individual Differences in Conflict Detection, Numeracy, and Processing Preference. Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis, 17(2).
  • Weil, A. M., Wolfe, C. R., Reyna, V. F., Widmer, C. L., Cedillos-Whynott, E. M., & Brust-Renck, P. G. (2015). Proficiency of FPPI and objective numeracy in assessing breast cancer risk estimation. Learning and Individual Differences, 43, 149-155.
  • General Psychology
  • Drugs and Behavior
  • Statistics & Research Design II
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Neuroscience Research Methods
  • Help run a yearly neuroscience outreach day in the spring for Brain Awareness week.
  • Mentor a group of student researchers involved in electroencephalography (EEG) research focused on cognitive control.