Peter Clayson, PhD

Dr. Peter Clayson joined the Green lab in 2017 with the support of the VA's Advanced Fellowship in Mental Illness Research and Treatment. He received his bachelor’s degree in psychology from Brigham Young University, where he was advised by Dr. Michael J. Larson. He earned his doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. He was mentored by Drs. Gregory A. Miller and Cindy M. Yee-Bradbury at UCLA, and his graduate research focused on using electrophysiology (event-related potentials) to understand adaptive control functioning in healthy and clinical populations. Peter plans on continuing this line of research in the Green lab by investigating the impact of reward processing and motivation on adaptive control in schizophrenia. He has co-authored manuscripts in Psychophysiology, the International Journal of Psychophysiology, and Biological Psychology and is a member of the Society for Psychophysiological Research. Peter has recently moved to the University of South Florida and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology.