Research in a broad range of issues including visual motion processes, emotion and memory, and the visual processing in dyslexic, autistic and neurological populations.
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Staff in the group investigate the way that humans perceive, make sense of, and respond to our natural and social surroundings. Research topics include vision, attention, memory, emotion, reasoning, sleep, language, and motor control in both healthy and neurological populations. The group is well equipped for a wide variety of studies including traditional psychophysics, Neuropsychological testing, mobile and lab’ based eye-tracking (Tobii, Eyelink, VSG), EEG, TMS (Medtronic MagPro), functional transcranial Doppler sonography, physiological recording (BioPac) and transcranical direct current stimulation.
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The group has strong collaborative links with internal and external researchers including in the Schools of Life Science, Computer Science and the Lincoln Institute of Health. Staff have successfully attracted external funding from the British Academy, EPSRC, ESRC, Nuffield Foundation, Royal Society, Home Office and Innovate UK.
Academic Staff |
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| Kun Guo | Reader |
| Petra Pollux | Senior Lecturer |
| Andrea Pavan | Lecturer |
| Dr Frouke Hermens | Senior Lecturer |
| Garry Wilson | Principal Lecturer |
| George Mather | Professor of Vision Science |
| John Hudson | Senior Lecturer |
| Kyla Pennington | Lecturer |
| Louise O'Hare | Lecturer |
| Patrick Bourke | Senior Lecturer |
| Simon Durrant | Senior Lecturer |
| Timothy Hodgson | Professor of Psychology |
| Dr Kay Ritchie | Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology |
| Professor Martin Tovee | Head of School of Psychology |
| Dr Robert Lee | Reseach Fellow |
| Dr Kevin Butler | Research Fellow |
| Dr Robin Kramer | Lecturer in Psychology |
| Dr Emile van der Zee | Principal Lecturer |
| Dr Kirstin McKenzie | Senior Lecturer |
| Dr Matt Craddock | Lecturer in Psychology |
Research PGs |
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| Catia Caeiro | PhD Student |
| Federica Menchinelli | PhD Student |
| Filippo Ghin | Associate Lecturer |
| Kristel Klaus | PhD Student |
| Marcus Harrington | PhD Student |
| Flora Ioannidou | Associate Lecturer |
| Shem Williams | PhD Student |
| Nadia Maalin | PhD Student |
| Sophia Mohamed | PhD Student |
Professor George Mather, School of Psychology
This research tests the theory of "action speaking louder than words", by applying vision science to social situations. Professor George Mather seeks to understand how the human form affects our visual judgement of movement, leading to greater appreciation of how we interact with others.