Dr. Bartholow is the director of the Social Cognitive and Addiction Neuroscience lab (SCANlab) and is Professor and Ketchel Family Chair in the Psychological and Brain Sciences Department at the University of Iowa. His research interests fall generally within four distinct yet overlapping areas: (1) the role of cognitive control in social behavior; (2) acute effects of alcohol on cognitive control; (3) individual differences in neurobiologically based risks for addiction, primarily alcohol use disorder; and (4) effects of incidental stimulus exposure on cognitive and behavior (i.e., priming effects). The common theme around which these lines of work are integrated is the interplay between salience (i.e., motivational significance) and cognitive control. 

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