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Dr Christoph Teufel
Reader, Lead for Cognitive Neuroscience (jointly with A. Bompas)
Overview
Research summary
Perceptual organisation
Neurons in the eye and early visual system respond to small, local patches of images. My research focuses on how our brain organises this patchwork of local neural activity to turn it into global and coherent percepts. I am particularly interested in the role of top-down influences from higher onto lower levels of visual processing in perceptual organisation. I work with healthy observers and clinical populations, integrating techniques from psychophysics, neuroimaging, and computational modelling.
Perception and learning
In order to guide successful and adaptive behaviour, an organism needs appropriate information about the states of the world. This information is typically learned and organised in the form of internal models. I am interested in how humans and animals learn to acquire internal models of their environment in the face of perceptual uncertainty. This work combines psychophysics and techniques from machine learning.
Face perception and social neuroscience
Facial information is important in guiding successful social behaviour. Face perception can therefore provide a useful model for how the brain processes biologically meaningful information. My work in this area focuses on the integration of information from multiple social cues and top-down effects. To address these questions, I work with healthy observers and clinical populations, using psychophysics and neuroimaging.
Teaching summary
I teach early vision on the Year 2 course Perception, Attention, and Action (PS2021), and the relationship of early and high-level vision on the Final Year course Social Perception (PS3215).
Publication
2024
- Finn, A., Shah, P., de la Rosa, S., Teufel, C. and von dem Hagen, E. 2024. The influence of body posture on facial expression perception in Autism. Scientific Reports 14(1), article number: 27655. (10.1038/s41598-024-79547-0)
- Harding, J. N., Wolpe, N., Brugger, S. P., Navarro, V., Teufel, C. and Fletcher, P. C. 2024. Predictive coding and phenomenological approaches of delusions: convergence and differences ? Authors' reply. The Lancet Psychiatry 11(7), article number: 498. (10.1016/S2215-0366(24)00141-X)
- Harding, J. N., Wolpe, N., Brugger, S. P., Navarro, V., Teufel, C. and Fletcher, P. C. 2024. A new predictive coding model for a more comprehensive account of delusions. The Lancet Psychiatry 11(4), pp. 295-302. (10.1016/S2215-0366(23)00411-X)
2023
- Gotsis, S., van Boxtel, J. J. A., Teufel, C., Edwards, M. and Christensen, B. K. 2023. Characterising modulatory effects of high-intensity high frequency transcranial random noise stimulation using the perceptual template model. Neuropsychologia 191, article number: 108703. (10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108703)
- Ward, I. L., Raven, E. P., de la Rosa, S., Jones, D. K., Teufel, C. and von dem Hagen, E. 2023. White matter microstructure in face and body networks predicts facial expression and body posture perception across development. Human Brain Mapping 44(6), pp. 2307-2322. (10.1002/hbm.26211)
- Pedziwiatr, M. A., von dem Hagen, E. and Teufel, C. 2023. Knowledge-driven perceptual organization reshapes information sampling via eye movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 49(3), pp. 408-427. (10.1037/xhp0001080)
2022
- Fletcher, P. C. and Teufel, C. R. 2022. The changing weight of expectation: how shifting priors underpin variability in hallucination frequency. Biological Psychiatry 92(10), pp. 752-753. (10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.08.027)
- Croft, J. et al. 2022. A computational analysis of abnormal belief-updating processes and their association with psychotic experiences and childhood trauma in a UK birth cohort. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging 7(7), pp. 725-734. (10.1016/j.bpsc.2021.12.007)
- Pedziwiatr, M. A., Kümmerer, M., Wallis, T. S., Bethge, M. and Teufel, C. 2022. Semantic object-scene inconsistencies affect eye movements, but not in the way predicted by contextualized meaning maps. Journal of Vision 22(2), pp. 1-20., article number: 9. (10.1167/jov.22.2.9)
2021
- Pedziwiatr, M. A., Kümmerer, M., Wallis, T. S., Bethge, M. and Teufel, C. 2021. There is no evidence that meaning maps capture semantic information relevant to gaze guidance: Reply to Henderson, Hayes, Peacock, and Rehrig (2021). Cognition 214, article number: 104741. (10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104741)
- Finnemann, J., Plaisted-Grant, K., Moore, J. and Teufel, C. 2021. Low-level, prediction-based sensory and motor processes are unimpaired in autism. Neuropsychologia 156, article number: 107835.
- Croft, J. et al. 2021. Childhood trauma and cognitive biases associated with psychosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS ONE 16(2), article number: e0246948. (10.1371/journal.pone.0246948)
- Pedziwiatr, M. A., Kümmerer, M., Wallis, T. S., Bethge, M. and Teufel, C. 2021. Meaning maps and saliency models based on deep convolutional neural networks are insensitive to image meaning when predicting human fixations. Cognition 206, article number: 104465. (10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104465)
2020
- Treder, M., Mayor-Torres, J. and Teufel, C. 2020. Deriving visual semantics from spatial context: an adaptation of LSA and Word2Vec to generate object and scene embeddings from images. [Online]. Cornell University. Available at: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09384
- Teufel, C. and Fletcher, P. C. 2020. Forms of prediction in the nervous system. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 21, pp. 231-242. (10.1038/s41583-020-0275-5)
- Perquin, M. N., Yang, J., Teufel, C., Sumner, P., Hedge, C. and Bompas, A. 2020. Inability to improve performance with control shows limited access to inner states. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 149(2), pp. 249–274. (10.1037/xge0000641)
- Revie, L., Bayer, A., Teufel, C. and Metzler-Baddeley, C. 2020. A review of the perceptual and attentional-executive characteristics of dementia with Lewy bodies relative to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. PsyArXiv
2019
- Teufel, C., Westlake, M. F., Fletcher, P. C. and von dem Hagen, E. 2019. A hierarchical model of social perception: Psychophysical evidence suggests late rather than early integration of visual information from facial expression and body posture. Cognition 185, pp. 131-143. (10.1016/j.cognition.2018.12.012)
- Dobler, V. B., Neufield, S. A. S., Fletcher, P. F., Perez, J., Subramaniam, N., Teufel, C. and Goodyer, I. M. 2019. Disaggregating physiological components of cortisol output: A novel approach to cortisol analysis in a clinical sample – a proof-of-principle study. Neurobiology of Stress 10, article number: 100153. (10.1016/j.ynstr.2019.100153)
- Croft, J. et al. 2019. Association of trauma type, age of exposure, and frequency in childhood and adolescence with psychotic experiences in early adulthood. JAMA Psychiatry 76(1), pp. 79-86. (10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2018.3155)
2018
- Davies, D. J., Teufel, C. and Fletcher, P. C. 2018. Anomalous perceptions and beliefs are associated with shifts toward different types of prior knowledge in perceptual inference. Schizophrenia Bulletin 44(6), pp. 1245-1253. (10.1093/schbul/sbx177)
- Teufel, C., Dakin, S. C. and Fletcher, P. C. 2018. Prior object-knowledge sharpens properties of early visual feature-detectors. Scientific Reports 8, article number: 10853. (10.1038/s41598-018-28845-5)
- Teufel, C. 2018. Sensory neuroscience: Linking dopamine, expectation and hallucinations. Current Biology 28(4), pp. R158-R160. (10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.003)
2017
- Humpston, C., Evans, L., Teufel, C., Niklas, I. and Linden, D. E. J. 2017. Evidence of absence: no relationship between behaviourally measured prediction error response and schizotypy. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry 22(5), pp. 373-390. (10.1080/13546805.2017.1348289)
- Teufel, C. and Nanay, B. 2017. How to (and how not to) think about top-down influences on visual perception. Consciousness and Cognition 47, pp. 17-25. (10.1016/j.concog.2016.05.008)
2016
- Teufel, C. and Fletcher, P. 2016. The promises and pitfalls of applying computational models to neurological and psychiatric disorders. Brain 139(10), pp. 2600-2608.
2015
- Teufel, C. et al. 2015. Shift toward prior knowledge confers a perceptual advantage in early psychosis and psychosis-prone healthy individuals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(43), pp. 13401-13406. (10.1073/pnas.1503916112)
2013
- Teufel, C., Subramaniam, N. and Fletcher, P. C. 2013. The role of priors in Bayesian models of perception. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 7, article number: 25. (10.3389/fncom.2013.00025)
- Teufel, C., Clayton, N. S. and Russell, J. 2013. Two-year-old children's understanding of visual perception and knowledge formation. Journal of Cognition and Development 14(2), pp. 203-228. (10.1080/15248372.2012.664591)
- Moore, J. W., Teufel, C., Subramaniam, N., Davis, G. and Fletcher, P. C. 2013. Attribution of intentional causation influences the perception of observed movements: Behavioral evidence and neural correlates. Frontiers in Psychology 4, article number: 23. (10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00023)
- Teufel, C., Von Dem Hagen, E., Plaisted-Grant, K. C., Edmonds, J. J., Ayorinde, J. O., Fletcher, P. C. and Davis, G. 2013. What is social about social perception research?. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience 6, article number: 128. (10.3389/fnint.2012.00128)
2011
- Silk, B. J. et al. 2011. Social knowledge. In: Menzel, R. and Fischer, J. eds. Animal Thinking: Contemporary Issues in Comparative Cognition. MIT Press, pp. 267-291.
2010
- Teufel, C., Kingdon, A., Ingram, J. N., Wolpert, D. M. and Fletcher, P. C. 2010. Deficits in sensory prediction are related to delusional ideation in healthy individuals. Neuropsychologia 48(14), pp. 4169-4172. (10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.10.024)
- Teufel, C., Gutmann, A., Pirow, R. and Fischer, J. 2010. Facial expressions modulate the ontogenetic trajectory of gaze-following among monkeys. Developmental Science 13(6), pp. 913-922. (10.1111/j.1467-7687.2010.00956.x)
- Teufel, C., Ghazanfar, A. A. and Fischer, J. 2010. On the relationship between lateralized brain function and orienting asymmetries. Behavioral Neuroscience 124(4), pp. 437-445. (10.1037/a0019925)
- Teufel, C., Fletcher, P. C. and Davis, G. 2010. Seeing other minds: attributed mental states influence perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 14(8), pp. 376-382. (10.1016/j.tics.2010.05.005)
- Teufel, C., Alexis, D. M., Clayton, N. S. and Davis, G. 2010. Mental-state attribution drives rapid, reflexive gaze following. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 72(3), pp. 695-705. (10.3758/APP.72.3.695)
2009
- Teufel, C., Alexis, D. M., Todd, H., Lawrance-Owen, A. J., Clayton, N. S. and Davis, G. 2009. Social cognition modulates the sensory coding of observed gaze direction. Current Biology 19(15), pp. 1274-1277. (10.1016/j.cub.2009.05.069)
- Fischer, J., Teufel, C., Drolet, M., Patzelt, A., Rübsamen, R., von Cramon, D. Y. and Schubotz, R. I. 2009. Orienting asymmetries and lateralized processing of sounds in humans. BMC Neuroscience 10(1), article number: 14. (10.1186/1471-2202-10-14)
- Teufel, C., Dean, A. S., Davis, G. and Clayton, N. S. 2009. Gaze-following in human and non-human primates: insights from the cueing paradigm. In: Watanabe, S. et al. eds. Rational Animals, Irrational Humans. Keio University Press, pp. 305-315.
2007
- Teufel, C., Hammerschmidt, K. and Fischer, J. 2007. Lack of orienting asymmetries in Barbary macaques: implications for studies of lateralized auditory processing. Animal Behaviour 73(2), pp. 249-255. (10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.04.011)
Adrannau llyfrau
- Silk, B. J. et al. 2011. Social knowledge. In: Menzel, R. and Fischer, J. eds. Animal Thinking: Contemporary Issues in Comparative Cognition. MIT Press, pp. 267-291.
- Teufel, C., Dean, A. S., Davis, G. and Clayton, N. S. 2009. Gaze-following in human and non-human primates: insights from the cueing paradigm. In: Watanabe, S. et al. eds. Rational Animals, Irrational Humans. Keio University Press, pp. 305-315.
Erthyglau
- Finn, A., Shah, P., de la Rosa, S., Teufel, C. and von dem Hagen, E. 2024. The influence of body posture on facial expression perception in Autism. Scientific Reports 14(1), article number: 27655. (10.1038/s41598-024-79547-0)
- Harding, J. N., Wolpe, N., Brugger, S. P., Navarro, V., Teufel, C. and Fletcher, P. C. 2024. Predictive coding and phenomenological approaches of delusions: convergence and differences ? Authors' reply. The Lancet Psychiatry 11(7), article number: 498. (10.1016/S2215-0366(24)00141-X)
- Harding, J. N., Wolpe, N., Brugger, S. P., Navarro, V., Teufel, C. and Fletcher, P. C. 2024. A new predictive coding model for a more comprehensive account of delusions. The Lancet Psychiatry 11(4), pp. 295-302. (10.1016/S2215-0366(23)00411-X)
- Gotsis, S., van Boxtel, J. J. A., Teufel, C., Edwards, M. and Christensen, B. K. 2023. Characterising modulatory effects of high-intensity high frequency transcranial random noise stimulation using the perceptual template model. Neuropsychologia 191, article number: 108703. (10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108703)
- Ward, I. L., Raven, E. P., de la Rosa, S., Jones, D. K., Teufel, C. and von dem Hagen, E. 2023. White matter microstructure in face and body networks predicts facial expression and body posture perception across development. Human Brain Mapping 44(6), pp. 2307-2322. (10.1002/hbm.26211)
- Pedziwiatr, M. A., von dem Hagen, E. and Teufel, C. 2023. Knowledge-driven perceptual organization reshapes information sampling via eye movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 49(3), pp. 408-427. (10.1037/xhp0001080)
- Fletcher, P. C. and Teufel, C. R. 2022. The changing weight of expectation: how shifting priors underpin variability in hallucination frequency. Biological Psychiatry 92(10), pp. 752-753. (10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.08.027)
- Croft, J. et al. 2022. A computational analysis of abnormal belief-updating processes and their association with psychotic experiences and childhood trauma in a UK birth cohort. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging 7(7), pp. 725-734. (10.1016/j.bpsc.2021.12.007)
- Pedziwiatr, M. A., Kümmerer, M., Wallis, T. S., Bethge, M. and Teufel, C. 2022. Semantic object-scene inconsistencies affect eye movements, but not in the way predicted by contextualized meaning maps. Journal of Vision 22(2), pp. 1-20., article number: 9. (10.1167/jov.22.2.9)
- Pedziwiatr, M. A., Kümmerer, M., Wallis, T. S., Bethge, M. and Teufel, C. 2021. There is no evidence that meaning maps capture semantic information relevant to gaze guidance: Reply to Henderson, Hayes, Peacock, and Rehrig (2021). Cognition 214, article number: 104741. (10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104741)
- Finnemann, J., Plaisted-Grant, K., Moore, J. and Teufel, C. 2021. Low-level, prediction-based sensory and motor processes are unimpaired in autism. Neuropsychologia 156, article number: 107835.
- Croft, J. et al. 2021. Childhood trauma and cognitive biases associated with psychosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS ONE 16(2), article number: e0246948. (10.1371/journal.pone.0246948)
- Pedziwiatr, M. A., Kümmerer, M., Wallis, T. S., Bethge, M. and Teufel, C. 2021. Meaning maps and saliency models based on deep convolutional neural networks are insensitive to image meaning when predicting human fixations. Cognition 206, article number: 104465. (10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104465)
- Teufel, C. and Fletcher, P. C. 2020. Forms of prediction in the nervous system. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 21, pp. 231-242. (10.1038/s41583-020-0275-5)
- Perquin, M. N., Yang, J., Teufel, C., Sumner, P., Hedge, C. and Bompas, A. 2020. Inability to improve performance with control shows limited access to inner states. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 149(2), pp. 249–274. (10.1037/xge0000641)
- Revie, L., Bayer, A., Teufel, C. and Metzler-Baddeley, C. 2020. A review of the perceptual and attentional-executive characteristics of dementia with Lewy bodies relative to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. PsyArXiv
- Teufel, C., Westlake, M. F., Fletcher, P. C. and von dem Hagen, E. 2019. A hierarchical model of social perception: Psychophysical evidence suggests late rather than early integration of visual information from facial expression and body posture. Cognition 185, pp. 131-143. (10.1016/j.cognition.2018.12.012)
- Dobler, V. B., Neufield, S. A. S., Fletcher, P. F., Perez, J., Subramaniam, N., Teufel, C. and Goodyer, I. M. 2019. Disaggregating physiological components of cortisol output: A novel approach to cortisol analysis in a clinical sample – a proof-of-principle study. Neurobiology of Stress 10, article number: 100153. (10.1016/j.ynstr.2019.100153)
- Croft, J. et al. 2019. Association of trauma type, age of exposure, and frequency in childhood and adolescence with psychotic experiences in early adulthood. JAMA Psychiatry 76(1), pp. 79-86. (10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2018.3155)
- Davies, D. J., Teufel, C. and Fletcher, P. C. 2018. Anomalous perceptions and beliefs are associated with shifts toward different types of prior knowledge in perceptual inference. Schizophrenia Bulletin 44(6), pp. 1245-1253. (10.1093/schbul/sbx177)
- Teufel, C., Dakin, S. C. and Fletcher, P. C. 2018. Prior object-knowledge sharpens properties of early visual feature-detectors. Scientific Reports 8, article number: 10853. (10.1038/s41598-018-28845-5)
- Teufel, C. 2018. Sensory neuroscience: Linking dopamine, expectation and hallucinations. Current Biology 28(4), pp. R158-R160. (10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.003)
- Humpston, C., Evans, L., Teufel, C., Niklas, I. and Linden, D. E. J. 2017. Evidence of absence: no relationship between behaviourally measured prediction error response and schizotypy. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry 22(5), pp. 373-390. (10.1080/13546805.2017.1348289)
- Teufel, C. and Nanay, B. 2017. How to (and how not to) think about top-down influences on visual perception. Consciousness and Cognition 47, pp. 17-25. (10.1016/j.concog.2016.05.008)
- Teufel, C. and Fletcher, P. 2016. The promises and pitfalls of applying computational models to neurological and psychiatric disorders. Brain 139(10), pp. 2600-2608.
- Teufel, C. et al. 2015. Shift toward prior knowledge confers a perceptual advantage in early psychosis and psychosis-prone healthy individuals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(43), pp. 13401-13406. (10.1073/pnas.1503916112)
- Teufel, C., Subramaniam, N. and Fletcher, P. C. 2013. The role of priors in Bayesian models of perception. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 7, article number: 25. (10.3389/fncom.2013.00025)
- Teufel, C., Clayton, N. S. and Russell, J. 2013. Two-year-old children's understanding of visual perception and knowledge formation. Journal of Cognition and Development 14(2), pp. 203-228. (10.1080/15248372.2012.664591)
- Moore, J. W., Teufel, C., Subramaniam, N., Davis, G. and Fletcher, P. C. 2013. Attribution of intentional causation influences the perception of observed movements: Behavioral evidence and neural correlates. Frontiers in Psychology 4, article number: 23. (10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00023)
- Teufel, C., Von Dem Hagen, E., Plaisted-Grant, K. C., Edmonds, J. J., Ayorinde, J. O., Fletcher, P. C. and Davis, G. 2013. What is social about social perception research?. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience 6, article number: 128. (10.3389/fnint.2012.00128)
- Teufel, C., Kingdon, A., Ingram, J. N., Wolpert, D. M. and Fletcher, P. C. 2010. Deficits in sensory prediction are related to delusional ideation in healthy individuals. Neuropsychologia 48(14), pp. 4169-4172. (10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.10.024)
- Teufel, C., Gutmann, A., Pirow, R. and Fischer, J. 2010. Facial expressions modulate the ontogenetic trajectory of gaze-following among monkeys. Developmental Science 13(6), pp. 913-922. (10.1111/j.1467-7687.2010.00956.x)
- Teufel, C., Ghazanfar, A. A. and Fischer, J. 2010. On the relationship between lateralized brain function and orienting asymmetries. Behavioral Neuroscience 124(4), pp. 437-445. (10.1037/a0019925)
- Teufel, C., Fletcher, P. C. and Davis, G. 2010. Seeing other minds: attributed mental states influence perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 14(8), pp. 376-382. (10.1016/j.tics.2010.05.005)
- Teufel, C., Alexis, D. M., Clayton, N. S. and Davis, G. 2010. Mental-state attribution drives rapid, reflexive gaze following. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 72(3), pp. 695-705. (10.3758/APP.72.3.695)
- Teufel, C., Alexis, D. M., Todd, H., Lawrance-Owen, A. J., Clayton, N. S. and Davis, G. 2009. Social cognition modulates the sensory coding of observed gaze direction. Current Biology 19(15), pp. 1274-1277. (10.1016/j.cub.2009.05.069)
- Fischer, J., Teufel, C., Drolet, M., Patzelt, A., Rübsamen, R., von Cramon, D. Y. and Schubotz, R. I. 2009. Orienting asymmetries and lateralized processing of sounds in humans. BMC Neuroscience 10(1), article number: 14. (10.1186/1471-2202-10-14)
- Teufel, C., Hammerschmidt, K. and Fischer, J. 2007. Lack of orienting asymmetries in Barbary macaques: implications for studies of lateralized auditory processing. Animal Behaviour 73(2), pp. 249-255. (10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.04.011)
Gwefannau
- Treder, M., Mayor-Torres, J. and Teufel, C. 2020. Deriving visual semantics from spatial context: an adaptation of LSA and Word2Vec to generate object and scene embeddings from images. [Online]. Cornell University. Available at: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09384
- Teufel, C. 2018. Sensory neuroscience: Linking dopamine, expectation and hallucinations. Current Biology 28(4), pp. R158-R160. (10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.003)
Research
Research topics
Perceptual organisation
Neurons in the eye and early visual system respond to small, local patches of images. My research focuses on how our brain organises this patchwork of local neural activity to turn it into global and coherent percepts. I am particularly interested in the role of top-down influences from higher onto lower levels of visual processing in perceptual organisation. I work with healthy observers and clinical populations, integrating techniques from psychophysics, neuroimaging, and computational modelling.
Perception and learning
In order to guide successful and adaptive behaviour, an organism needs appropriate information about the states of the world. This information is typically learned and organised in the form of internal models. I am interested in how humans and animals learn to acquire internal models of their environment in the face of perceptual uncertainty. This work combines psychophysics and techniques from machine learning.
Face perception and social neuroscience
Facial information is important in guiding successful social behaviour. Face perception can therefore provide a useful model for how the brain processes biologically meaningful information. My work in this area focuses on the integration of information from multiple social cues and top-down effects. To address these questions, I work with healthy observers and clinical populations, using psychophysics and neuroimaging.
Funding
MRC funding for the PhD project 'Exploring the emergence of psychotic experiences using multimodal neuroimaging and mathematical modelling', £95,477
Award from the KU Leuven/Cardiff University Staff Mobility scheme (2016) (covers international travel and accommodation in Leuven, Belgium)
Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund (2015), Mobility Scheme, £650
VW Foundation Research grant, 'The Interplay of Pre-reflective and Reflective Processes', (2010-2014), £82,600
Travel Fellowship from the Centre for Visual Science (2012), Rochester, USA ($1200)
Isaac Newton Trust Research grant, 'Neural Correlates of Social Perception: An fMRI Study', (2009-2010), £17,890
Research collaborators
Internal
Matt Dunn (School of Optometry, Cardiff, UK)
Krish Singh (School of Psychology, Cardiff, UK)
Elisabeth von dem Hagen (School of Psychology, Cardiff, UK)
Stanley Zammit (MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics, Cardiff, UK)
External
Bruce Christensen (School of Psychology, Australian National University, AU)
Steven Dakin (Optometry & Vision Science, University of Auckland, NZ)
Paul Fletcher (Brain Mapping Unit, University of Cambridge, UK)
Peter Scarfe (Vision and Haptics Lab, University of Reading, UK)
Johan Wagemans (Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, KU Leuven, Belgium)
Biography
Undergraduate education
2005 German equivalent of BSc and MPhil in Biology, Free University of Berlin and Max-Planck-Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
Postgraduate education
2006 MPhil Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK
2009 PhD Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK
Other duties
Grant reviewing: BBSRC, UK; MRC, UK; ESRC, UK; Leverhulme Trust, UK; Israel Science Foundation; Swiss National Science Foundation, Switzerland; FWO, Belgium
Journal reviewing for 21 different journals (including Current Biology, Journal of Vision, American Journal of Psychiatry)
Invited talks (e.g., Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, Paris, France; University of Bochum, Germany; Goldsmiths University of London, UK; University of Bergen, Norway)
Employment
2015-present Lecturer, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, UK
2009-2014 Posdoctoral research associate, Brain Mapping Unit, University of Cambridge, UK
Honours and awards
Awards/external committees
College Research Associate (elected), Clare College, University of Cambridge, UK (2009-2014)
Member of the European Platform for Life Sciences, Mind Sciences, and the Humanities (elected) at the VW Foundation (2010-2014)
Katharina-Heinroth-Award (2005)
Supervisions
Postgraduate research interests
If you are interested in applying for a PhD, or for further information regarding my postgraduate research, please contact me directly (contact details available on the 'Overview' page).
Current PhD students and Postdocs
Stefan Brugger (PhD student, jointly supervised with Krish Singh)
Hellen Jing Yuan (PhD student, jointly supervised with Krish Singh)
Abigail Finn (PhD student, jointly supervised with Elisabeth von dem Hagen)
Laura Dixon (PhD student, jointly supervised with Elisabeth von dem Hagen
Tyler Bridgewater (PhD student, jointly supervised with Tom Freeman)
Adelina Halchin (PhD student; main supervisor: Aline Bompas)
Alumni
Isobel Ward - PhD in 2021, Postdoc from 2021-2022; now a Senior Analyst at the Office for National Statistics (ONS), UK
Juan Mayor Torres - Postdoc 2020-2021; now Postdoc at the University College Dublin, Ireland
Marek Pedziwiatr - PhD in 2020; now a Postdoc at Queen Mary University of London, UK
Jazz Croft - PhD in 2020 (co-supervision); now a Senior Workplace Scientist at Flo Health, Inc., UK
Johanna Finneman - PhD in 2020 (co-supervision); now a Postdoc at the University of Cambridge, UK
Contact Details
+44 29208 75372
Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, Maindy Road, Cardiff, CF24 4HQ