Group Leader: Brad Duchaine
Brad is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Psychology, UCL.
He's been here since 2005. Previously he was at the Vision Sciences Lab at Harvard University.
He did his PhD at the Department of Psychology, University of California - Santa Barbara.
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Lab members: Past & Present
Michael Banissy
Michael uses neuropsychology and TMS to study the neural, cognitive, and developmental basis of social cognition and self perception. He also works on synaesthesia in the visual and tactile domains and has an interest in aspects of visual cognition. He is about to begin his postdoc at our lab.
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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
Lucia is doing her PhD at the ICN supervised by Brad Duchaine. She is interested in face and voice recognition
and has been investigating structural brain differences between those with and without developmental prosopagnosia.
She did her BA in Psychology at the University of Porto in Portugal and an MSc in Cognitive Neuropsychology at UCL.
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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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Marta Ponari
Marta is a PhD student in Cognitive Sciences in Naples, Italy, and is 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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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 Brad Duchaine and Vincent Walsh at the ICN, and he has stayed on for his postdoc here.
He is currently visiting the Kanwisher Lab at MIT.
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Raka Tavashmi
Raka is the lab Research Assistant. She is responsible for coding experiments, recruiting & testing subjects, all data collection & management, and related activities.
She is also the maker and maintainer 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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Matthew Hamilton-Foyn
Matthew was an undergraduate student in the lab and has continued here as a research assistant. For his disertation he worked on the perception of eye gaze direction in social interactions. He helps with data collection and testing in the lab.
Zara Angela-Abbas
Zara was an undergraduate student and research assistant at the lab. Her work was in facial adaptation and perceptual processes underlying judgments of facial attractiveness. She has been involved with data collection on a variety of projects.
Collaborators
- 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.