Rate My Professor Thomas Sambrook

Dr Thomas Sambrook joined the School of Psychology at the University of East Anglia in 2017 as a Lecturer in Psychology. He holds a degree in psychology from the University of Bristol, an M.Sc. in cognitive science from the University of Birmingham, a Ph.D. in field primatology from the University of St Andrews and a Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience from the University of Plymouth.

His research focuses on the cognitive processes underlying decision making and reinforcement learning, with emphasis on neural correlates using computational models, EEG and primary reinforcers such as food. He has previously conducted field studies on primate social behaviour and research on bilingual language acquisition. Dr Sambrook serves as Chair of the Psychology Research Ethics Committee and teaches modules including Evolutionary Psychology and Cognitive and Biological Psychology. Recent publications include work on devaluation insensitivity of event-related potentials associated with food cues in Appetite (2026) and studies on valence and prediction error in Psychophysiology (2023) and Cerebral Cortex (2021).