Michelle Ashburner

Graduate Student

Michelle Ashburner

Michelle Ashburner

Michelle is completing her PhD in cognitive psychology. Her research focus is on how individuals judge the effortfulness of given cognitive tasks. Currently, she is investigating the way effort judgments, and the cues used to infer them, change across certain contexts. 

  • Ashburner, M., & Risko, E. F. (2021). Judgements of effort as a function of post-trial versus post-task elicitation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology74(6), 991-1006. 
  • Ashburner, M., & Risko, E. F. (2022). On the influence of evaluation context on judgments of effort. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance48(8), 790.