image1Biographical Info:

Joshua received a BSc in Psychology and MSc in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience from the University of Sheffield in 2016 and 2017 respectively. He then completed his PhD from the University of Leeds in 2022, defending his thesis titled “Investigating the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying multisensory perceptual decision-making in humans”, and undertook a short-term postdoc at the University of Leeds in 2023 prior to joining the O’Connell Lab.

Joshua’s past research has investigated when and how multisensory information is integrated in the brain to benefit decision-making behaviour, characterising the interplay between multisensory integrative and perceptual decision-making processes in consideration of factors such as cross-modal association, ageing, and learning. His current research combines electroencephalography and computational modelling to investigate the neural markers of inter-individual variability in perceptual decision-making behaviour, with an application towards characterising such variability in age-related cognitive decline.

Publications:

O’Reilly, D., Bolam, J., Delis, I., & Utley, A. (2025). Effect of a plant-based nootropic supplement on perceptual decision-making and brain network interdependencies: A randomised, double-blinded, and placebo-controlled study. Brain Sciences, 15(3), 226. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci15030226

Bolam, J., Diaz, J.A., Andrews, M. et al (2024). A drift diffusion model analysis of age-related impact on multisensory decision-making processes. Scientific Reports 14, 14895. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-65549-5

Bolam, J., Boyle, S. C., Ince, R. A. A., & Delis, I. (2022). Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying cross-modal associations and their influence on perceptual decisions. NeuroImage, 247, 118841. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118841