Principal Investigator
Brad Duchaine
Brad is Associate Professor of psychology at the Department of Psychologyical and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College.
He's been here since June 2010. Previously he was senior lecturer and group leader of social perception lab at University College London and also a postdoctoral fellow at the Vision Sciences Lab at Harvard University.
He did his PhD at the Department of Psychology, University of California - Santa Barbara.
Present Lab Members
Kirsten Dalrymple
Kirsten completed her Masters and PhD at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Social Perception lab, studying face perception in children. Little is known about developmental face recognition problems, so Kirsten is in the process of designing standardized tests of face recognition that can be used to assess and diagnose abnormal face processing at an early age.
Zahra Basseda
Zahra received her M.D. from Tehran University of Medical Sciences. She had been studing neuroscience during her medical courses. She had also worked on reward-associated memory in mice, and face space models of face perception in human subjects. Now she is a research assistant here and helps Brad in desgining experiments as well as data collection and analysis. Zahra has developed tests to evaluate visual field asymmetries in aquired prosopagnosia. She has also designed web-based psychophysical experiments for testing remote subjects.
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Tirta Susilo
Tirta is interested in combining psychophysics, neuropsychology, and fMRI to explore issues concerning face, body, and person perception.
He did his PhD with Elinor McKone at the Australian National University , where he used perceptual experiments to study the representation of facial identity in the human visual system.
Hua Yang
Hua is a PhD student at Dartmouth. She got her B.S from Peking University and received training from Fang Lab as well as Meng Lab.
Her interest is always only one word: Vision.
Jesse L. Gomez
Jesse hails from the warm beaches of Southern California and is a neuroscience major here at Dartmouth. He is interested in developmental cognitive neuroscience and is currently exploring the behavioral and functional substrates of social perception. His work focuses on cognitive and perceptual differences across age groups, and what happens when these processes go awry in development. In order to research one such deficit, developmental prosopagnosia, he has been designing experiments to accurately measure face memory and processing within children in addition to populating the first children’s database of face stimuli. His current thesis project investigates whether or not differential FFA activity attributed to the own-age bias is reflected in downstream attentional mechanisms.
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Constantin Rezlescu
Costi is a PhD student from University College London, interested in face cognition, consequences of social evaluations of faces (trustworthiness in particular) and deception detection. His PhD is supervised by Nick Chater and Vince Walsh. At Dartmouth he will examine the links between facial identity recognition and impression formation by studying individuals with acquired prosopagnosia.
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Amy Bray
Amy is an undergraduate at Dartmouth majoring in neuroscience. She is originally from Southern California. As a research assistant, she is currently developing tests to assess facial perception of social traits, such as trustworthiness and attractiveness. These tests will be used with normal participants and individuals with face recognition impairments.
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Ji Hyae Lee
Ji Hyae hails from Seoul, Korea, and studies neuroscience at Dartmouth College. As a presidential scholar research assistant, she is working on the Cambridge Bike Memory Test, which is similar in format to the Cambridge Face Memory Test, a test designed to identify children with face recognition impairments.
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Ronald Sutton
Ron is a psychology major at Dartmouth College. He is originally from the Chicago area. As a research assistant in the lab Ron is studying how facial traits such as competence and dominance affect voting behavior in political elections.
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Jovalee Thompson
Jovalee Thompson is a Neuroscience major and French minor at Dartmouth College. She was born in Jamaica but raise in Washington, DC. As a research assistant, Jovalee is developing tests to assess the lack of facial recognition in children.
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Kelsey Stimson
Kelsey Stimson is an undergraduate at Dartmouth College, originally born in sunny Southern California. She intends on a Psychology and English double-major. As a research assistant, she works with Zahra Basseda to design experiments, run tests, and collect and analyze data. Her research focuses on visual field asymmetries in acquired prosopagnosia.
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Previous Lab Members
David Pitcher
David's research involves studying the neural correlates of face processing and object recognition in the human brain using TMS and fMRI. His PhD was supervised by Vincent Walsh and Brad Duchaine at UCL. He is now a postdoc in Nancy Kanwisher's Lab at MIT.
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Laura Germine
Laura was Brad's research assistant from 2005 to 2007. She is now doing her PhD at Harvard University with Christine Hooker. Her research is in the area of Social Neuroscience and Psychopathology. She has a BA in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Michael Banissy
Michael is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL. He uses brain stimulation and brain imaging to study the neurocognitive mechanisms of social perception. He also works on synesthesia in the visual and tactile domains. He completed his PhD at UCL under the supervision of Vincent Walsh and has since completed an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship with Brad Duchaine.
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Richard Cook
Richard is a PhD student with Alan Johnston, UCL Dept. of Psychology. His work at the Social Perception lab is concerned with the parallels and
dissociations between the perception of faces and bodies. He is interested in the degree to which bodies also recruit specialised
mechanisms, similar to those revealed through the study of faces.
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Lucia Garrido
Lúcia did her PhD at UCL supervised by Brad. Her research concerned how prosopagnosics recognise facial expression of emotion and she also investigated structural brain differences between those with and without developmental prosopagnosia. Lucia is also interested in voice recognition. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University working with Ken Nakayama.
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Marta Ponari
Marta is a PhD student in Cognitive Sciences in Naples, Italy, and was a visiting student at the ICN.
Her PhD addresses a variety of aspects of face processing and facial expression recognition,
using behavioral and TMS experiments. She did her BA in Psychology and MSc in Cognitive Processes
from the Second University of Naples.
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Raka Tavashmi
Raka was the lab Research Manager from 2007 to 2009. She was responsible for co-ordinating group projects, coding experiments, recruiting & testing subjects, data collection & management, and related activities. She is also the creator of this website. She has a BA in Philosophy and Psychology from the University of Pune, India, and an MSc in Cognitive Science from the University of Edinburgh.
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Collaborators
- Sarah Bate Psychology Department, Bournemouth University.
- Angela Gosling Brain & Behaviour Lab, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck University, London.
- Bruno Averbeck Institute of Movement Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, University College London.
- Jason Barton Neurology, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Psychology, University of British Columbia, Canada.
- Andy Calder MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK.
- Jon Driver Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience & Dept. Psychology, University College London.
- Martin Eimer School of Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London.
- Nick Furl The Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London.
- Rob Jenkins Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow.
- Nancy Kanwisher McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Eva Loth Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London.
- Elinor McKone Department of Psychology, The Australian National University.
- Ken Nakayama Vision Sciences Laboratory, Harvard University.
- Richard Russell Psychology Department, Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania.
- Vincent Walsh Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience & Dept. Psychology, University College London.
- Mark Williams Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Australia.
- Jeremy Wilmer Department of Psychology, Wellesley College, Massachusetts.
- Galit Yovel Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University, Israel.