Gamified tasks for mental health research

Reward-effort decision-making task.
[view code on github] [play demo]
Causal attribution task.
[view code on github] [play demo]
Aversive learning tasks.
[view code on github] [play demo 1] [view code on github] [play demo 2]

Selected publications, data & code

Norbury, A.,, Dercon, Q., Hauser, T. U., Dolan, R. J., Huys, Q. J. M. (2025). Learning training as a cognitive restructuring intervention. in press, BP:CNNI. [postprint] [code]
Hewitt, S. R. C., Norbury, A.,, Huys, Q. J. M., Hauser, T. U. (2025). Day-to-day fluctuations in motivation drive effort-based decision-making. PNAS. [preprint]
Norbury, A., Hauser, T. U., Fleming, S. M., Dolan, R. J., Huys, Q. J. M. (2024). Different components of cognitive-behavioural therapy affect specific cognitive mechanisms. Science Advances. [pdf] [code]
Norbury, A., Brinkman, H., Kowalchyk, M., Monti, E., Pietrzak, R.H., Schiller, D., Feder, A. (2021). Latent cause inference during extinction learning in trauma-exposed individuals with and without PTSD. Psychological Medicine. [postprint] [pdf] [data & code]
Sukei, E., Norbury, A., Perez-Rodriguez, M.M., Olmos, P.M., Artés Rodríguez, A. (2021). Predicting emotional state using behavioural markers derived from passively sensed data. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 9(3):e24465
Norbury, A., Rutter, S.B., Collins, A.B., Costi, S., Jha, M.K., Horn, S.R., Kautz, M., Corniquel, M., Collins, K.A., Glasgow, A.M., Brallier, J., Shin, L.M., Charney, D.S., Murrough, J.M., Feder, A. (2021). Neuroimaging correlates and predictors of response to repeated-dose intravenous ketamine in PTSD: preliminary evidence. Neuropsychopharmacology. [preregistration] [postprint] [pdf] [code]
Norbury, A., Liu, S.H., Campaña-Montes, J.J., Romero-Medrano, L., Barrigon, M.L., Smith, E., MEmind Study Group, Artés, A., Baca-Garcia, E., Perez-Rodriguez, M.M. (2020). Social media and smartphone app use predicts maintenance of physical activity during Covid-19 enforced isolation in psychiatric outpatients. Molecular Psychiatry. [postprint] [pdf] [synthetic data & code]
Norbury, A., Robbins, T.W., Seymour, B. (2018). Value generalization in human avoidance learning. eLife 7:e34779. [pdf] [data & code] [accessible summary]
Norbury, A., Seymour, B. (2018). Response heterogeneity: challenges for personalised medicine and big data approaches in psychiatry and chronic pain. F1000 Research 7:55. [pdf]
Norbury, A., Valton, V., Rees, G., Roiser, J.P.*, Husain, M.* (2016). Shared neural mechanisms for the evaluation of intense sensory stimulation and economic reward, dependent on stimulation-seeking behaviour. Journal of Neuroscience 36(39), 10026-10038. [pdf]
Norbury, A., Husain, M. (2015). Sensation-seeking: Dopaminergic modulation and risk for psychopathology. Behavioural Brain Research 288, 79-93. [pdf] [accessible summary]
Norbury, A., Kurth-Nelson, Z., Winston, J.S., Roiser, J.P., Husain, M. (2015). Dopamine regulates approach-avoidance in human sensation-seeking. International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology 18(10), 1-10. [pdf]
Norbury, A., Manohar, S., Rogers, R.D., Husain, M. (2013). Dopamine Modulates Risk-Taking as a Function of Baseline Sensation-Seeking Trait. Journal of Neuroscience 33(32), 12982-12986. [pdf]
Molander, A.C., Mar, A., Norbury, A., Steventon, S., Moreno, M., Caprioli, D., Theobald, T.E.H., Belin, D., Everitt, B.J., Robbins, T.W., Dalley, J.W. (2011). High impulsivity predicting vulnerability to cocaine addiction in rats: some relationship with novelty preference but not novelty reactivity, anxiety or stress. Psychopharmacology 215(4), 721-731. [pdf]