Professor Shapiro in collaboration with other colleagues published the first paper on the ‘attentional blink’ phenomenon, which has attracted great interest on the part of many scientists. The original publication has been cited over 1000 times and approximately 500 reports on the same topic have followed from it. He employs a wide range of neuroscience approaches and tools in his ...

Ian Apperly is a cognitive psychologist, and his main research interest is in “mindreading” – the ability to take other people’s perspectives. He is the author of a recent book entitled “Mindreaders: The cognitive basis of theory of mind”.

Professor Anthony Beech is Head of the Centre for Forensic and Criminological Psychology  at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has authored over 150 peer-reviewed articles, 40 book chapters and six books in the area of forensic science/criminal justice. In 2009 he received the Significant Achievement Award from the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers in Dallas, and the Senior ...

I am an applied researcher embedded in Birmingham mental health services. I’m a clinical psychologist by training and act as clinical director to the YouthSpace youth mental health service (www.youthspace.me) and Director of research and Innovation for Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust.

I’m a keen member of the Mancunian Diaspora (the ...

Professor Miall has been studying sensory motor control for about 30 years, from his PhD in locusts, to crayfish, primates and for most of the last decade, working on human motor control. He is particularly interested in the role of the cerebellum.

Uta Noppeney investigates how the human brain acquires, represents and retrieves knowledge about our multisensory environment. Her team addresses this central research question from three complementary perspectives: (1) Multisensory Integration, (2) Language and (3) Concept Learning. To characterize the underlying neural and computational mechanisms, they combine psychophysics, functional ...

Chris Oliver is Professor of Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Director of the Cerebra Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders. His main research interests are behavioural, cognitive and emotional disorders in people with severe intellectual disability, genetic syndromes and autism spectrum conditions.

Now semi-retired, I have a long career behind me and have achieved a national and international reputation in the fields of addiction and community psychology.

Professor Raymond is a visual perception/cognition specialist with a wide range of interests in how humans use and respond to complex visual information. She conducted the seminal work on the “Attention Blink”, a finding that launched intensive interest in labs around the world on how selective attention operates over time. Her work has included studies of visual disorder in MS; ...

My research aims to understand the health paradox of adolescence - the years between 12 and 25 are a time of great physical fitness, yet this is the period during which 75% of all mental disorders have their onset. Why should this be the case? Clearly changes in the brain are likely culprits, but how they interact with genetic and environmental factors to produce illness is unclear.

My research examines children’s and adults’ thinking about time and knowledge. I am interested in how children become able to speculate about events in the past and future and how they handle uncertainty, and how adults’ apparently sophisticated thinking in these areas is often irrational. More information about my research and my lab can be found at www.sarahruthbec ...

Jackie is an applied developmental psychologist whose specific interest is in parenting and childhood eating behaviour and obesity.

The main aim of my lab is to understand pain without injury. Consequently we hurt people using hypnosis, painful images, illusions and other trickery. I am generally interested in the nature of pain and the relationship between pain and consciousness.

I am a research psychologist interested in the study of motivated behaviours like eating and drug taking.

My primary research interest is the relationship between language, cognition and action. More specifically, I investigate gestures that people spontaneously produce during speaking and thinking and language development in children.

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Thompson Reuter's ResearcherID: B-2860-2008.

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Dr Bagshaw's main interest is in developing and applying non-invasive neuroimaging methods to questions in clinical and behavioural neuroscience. Current work in the Multimodal Integration Group (MIG)focuses on using EEG-fMRI to understand the influence of ongoing brain activity on evoked and behavioural responses, and to examine the localisation and functional significance of ...

Ingo Bojak is a computational neuroscientist specialized in neural activity at mesoscopic level, i.e., in the collective activity of thousands or millions of neurons. Typically he employs population models of the neural field / mass kind. Mesoscopic models form a bridge between the microscopic level of single neurons and the macroscopic level of non-invasive neuroimaging and behaviour. ...

Dr Jason Braithwaite is a senior lecturer in Cognitive Psychology and Brain Science at the Behavioural Brain Sciences Centre, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham.  He heads the Selective Attention & Awareness Laboratory (SAAL) which has been supported with previous funding from the Leverhulme Trust, ESRC, BBSRC, RCUK, The Bial Foundation.  He ...

Dr Anke Büttner is a psycholinguist and cognitive psychologist interested in the way people make sense of language. She also has an interest in learning and teaching, in particular in the effects of encouraging students to take ownership of the work and in the processes that take place during mentoring relationships.

Louise is a Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology, responsible for directing the Continued Professional Development route to the Doctorate in Forensic Psychology Practice (CPD route to FPP). Her research interests centre on family violence and group/gang aggression.

Dr Grunfeld's research focuses on the role of beliefs, attitudes and perceptions on behaviour, particulalrly in relation to health. Her work has advanced knowledge of how beliefs around illness, risk, and social factors predict timelines of help-seeking behaviours, influence returning to work following illnesss and impact on short and long term adaptation.

Catherine Hamilton-Giachritsis is an HCPC registered Forensic Psychologist and Clinical Psychologist with an interest in child maltreatment and family violence, including risk assessment, impact of early institutionalisation and long-term outcomes (e.g., psychopathology and/or resilience). She also studies vulnerability to online grooming and impact on young people.

Dietmar Heinke teaches statistics at the School of Psychology. His research focuses on interdisciplinary brain research integrating experimental work in psychology with theoretical/computational modeling work. for more information see his personal webpages.

Andrea Krott is psycholinguist who is interested in language acquisition and brain responses to language processing. Many of her studies, carried out in various languages, have focused on how adults and children understand and produce compound words (e.g. “baby bottle”). Her current research concerns children’s word learning and language-related brain responses (EEG) in ...

My main roles involve teaching, supporting and supervising research on the clinical psychology doctorate, and organising the MRes Clinical Psychology course. I also supervise PhD students using qualitative research methods to explore experiences of psychological distress, recovery, relatedness and caring. My research interests are in these same areas.

I am a behavioural neuroscientist primarily interested in the mechanisms and functions of memory processes. In particular, I currently study the phenomenon of memory reconsolidation, which may have applications in the understanding of and treatment of conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder and drug addiction.

Dr. Ian Mitchell is interested in the neurobiological basis of offending behaviour and some psychiatric conditions.

Dr Nouwen’s main research interests focus on two areas: the motivational processes underlying dietary self-care in people with diabetes, and the Centre for Obesity Research. Dr Nouwen uses both applied clinical and social as well as experimental laboratory paradigms. He is Associate Editor of Diabetic Medicine and Consulting Editor of Health Psychology.

Andrew Olson is a neuropsychologist who is interested in cognition and its various forms of breakdown and especially in the organization of language in the brain. He works with patient volunteers with aphasia, children, healthy adults and members of the deaf community.

Kimberly Quinn is a social-cognitive psychologist with interests in face processing (e.g., social categorisation, emotion recognition), self–other representation (e.g., behavioural synchrony), and moral judgement (e.g., moral certainty).

More information may be found at her personal webpage: http://www.kimberlyquinn.net/.

Andrew Schofield's primary research is on functional aspects of the visual perceptio with an emphasis on textures, surfaces and shape. He also has interests in the effects of ageing on visual perception and the role of cortical hyper-excitability in abnormal visual functioning. He also builds computational models of human vision and designs computer vision algorithms.

I have been a member of staff in the School of Psychology since 1988 and have combined my academic post with clinical psychology practice and managerial responsibilities in the NHS.

Jessica is a chartered psychologist and an HCPC registered forensic psychologist. Her primary areas of research are policing and sexual offending.

Dr Beierholm is a computational neuroscientist researching issues on theoretical models of information processing at the behavioural level, i.e. how perceptual stimuli and cognitive instructions lead to human decisions and actions.

Dr Jonathan Catling is a Cognitive Psychologist. His main research interest lies within the field of psycholinguistics, specifically assessing the impact of the ‘Age of Acquisition’ of language on cognitive functions in later life.

Dr Di Luca investigates the mechanisms of human perception using psychophysical methods and computational modeling. His research goal is to understand how humans integrate multiple sensory signals and accumulate information over time to generate a percept.

Dr Di Luca is part of the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics (CNCR) and Director of ...

Dr Hermine Graham is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Lecturer; she has led in the development and evaluation of an integrated treatment and service model for people with severe mental health problems who misuse alcohol and drugs, in Birmingham. This service model has been highlighted as a model of good practice by the Department of Health. She has published articles within this area and ...

Leigh Harkins is a chartered psychologist and an HCPC registered forensic psychologist. Her primary areas of research are sexual offending and group aggression.

Dr Amanda Ludlow is a developmental psychologist focusing on atypical development, both developmental psychopathology and developmental disorders. Her research broadly falls in to three categories: Visual Function in children with developmental disorders, Social and Emotional Development of children with sensory deficits (Children with ASD, Deafness, Blindness, Tourette Syndrome), Early ...

Dr McCleery is interested in typical and atypical social-emotional, social-communicative, and language development.

Richard Bennett is a Clinical Psychologist working both at the University of Birmingham and in the NHS. He is an Academic Tutor on the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) Programmes, and is the Course Lead for the Diploma in High Intensity Psychological Therapies.

I am one of the Senior Academic Tutors on the ClinPsyD Course in the School of Psychology. My role involves being the Year 3 Tutor as well as curriculum organisation and development. I supervise research in the area of health psychology, focusing mainly on Coeliac Disease, cancer and end of life care.

John Rose is a clinical psychologist with a particular interest in working with people who have Intellectual Disabilities and work on the Clin Psy D course at the University. He also works for Dudley Community Services and has a strong emphasis on integrating research and teaching with practice in his professional life.

I work in the School of Psychology part-time (.6 FTE) on a five-year NIHR Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship for research into the early signs of challenging behaviour in individuals with intellectual disabilities and genetic syndromes. Outside of this, I continue to work clinically with children and adolescents with mental health problems, learning disabilities and challenging behaviour.

Lucy Alford is a keen zoologist whose specific interests lie in the areas of entomology, macroecology, physiology and behavior. Following on from her PhD centered on insect thermal biology and resilience to temperature extremes, she is currently engaged in a challenging and exciting project focused on resilient systems. For this, she is interested in applying her knowledge of resilience ...

Debbie Allen is a postdoctoral researcher who works at the Cerebra Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders. She is currently funded by the National Autistic Society.

As well as lecturing and tutoring undergraduates, Dr Giles Anderson uses behavioural and eye-tracking measures to investigate patterns in visual search.

Dr De Brito conducts functional and structural MRI research to 1: examine the neural substrates associated with the development and the persistence of severe antisocial behaviour in children and adults; 2. shed light on the relationship between childhood maltreatment and brain structure and functioning; and 3. Identify structural and functional neural markers of resilience.

Dr Elliott is a Research Fellow in the Sensory Motor Neuroscience (SyMoN) lab. His work investigates how the brain combines information across the senses such that we are able to time and coordinate movements with our surrounding environment. He is currently investigating how groups of people move together in synchrony, occurring in scenarios such as dance, music or simply walking together. Dr. ...

Dr Galea is broadly interested in motor control. This ranges from the neural correlates of motor learning to movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease. At present, he is particularly interested in how reward/punishment influences our actions and can be used to alter the speed at which our motor system learns or retains new movements.

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My current research examines how the brain controls coordinated movements, and which structures in the brain contribute to the improvement and adaptation of movements during motor learning. My PhD thesis examined how observing the actions of others can modulate the activity of the human motor system.

Dr Honisch is broadly interested in human movement timing and coordination. She is affiliated with the Sensory Motor Neuroscience (SyMoN) laband currently works with Dr Kimberly Quinn (Social Psychologist). Her present work investigates theoretical models of interpersonal behavioural synchronisation. Dr Honisch also conducts research on multi-person synchronisation in expert dancers and ...

Dr Jiang’s main research interests are image processing and pattern recognition. Now she works with Dr Andrew Schofield for the project "Extract intrinsic image from a single image". They try to integrate the knowledge of human vision system into computer vision system.

Katerina is currently working as coordinator for Dr Joe McCleery’s behavioural and EEG/ERP research on language development in toddlers at high risk of developing autism, funded by the UK-based charity organisation Autistica. She is also working with Dr Kita on further projects on infant’s perception and use of sound symbolism.

She was also involved in ...

Jess Kerlin is currently studying visual attention and working memory, with the goal of uncovering the neural mechanisms which underlie these processes. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Psychology under the supervision of Professor Kimron Shapiro and Professor Jane Raymond, utilizing a number of behavioural and neuroimaging techniques to address critical questions in the field.

Dr Ansgar Koene is a postdoctoral research fellow working on human sensory motor control. Based on his multi-disciplinary background in psychology and robotics he also leads the Behaviour Informatics project for facilitating interdisciplinary sharing of information related to human, animal and robot behaviour.

Dr Lin works as a research fellow investigating the onset of severe mental illness in adolescents and young adults.

Dr. Femke Maij is a postdoctoral researcher working on haptic perception during arm movements in Professor Alan Wing’s group.

Dr Steve Mayhew conducts a lot of simultaneous EEG-fMRI experiments in an effort to better understand the coupling between single-trial variability in electrophysiological and haemodynamic measurements of brain responses, and how interactions between ongoing brain processes and external events are intrinsic to the function of the brain.

I am a research fellow at the Cerebra Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, School of Psychology. My main research interests include the study of behavioural phenotypes in neurodevelopmental disorders associated with intellectual disability.

Trudy is a qualified physiotherapist with specialist clinical and research experience in neuro-rehabilitation.

Dr Markus Rank is a postdoctoral research fellow in the field of computational neuroscience. His research goal is to develop dynamic computational models for the haptic perceptual and action system.

Dr Renate Reniers works as a Research Fellow investigating adolescent development and youth mental health using various neuroimaging techniques.

Dr Rosenthal’s research interests focus on basic mechanisms of perceptual dynamics, learning and recovery. Her work is multi disciplinary in its nature. She has a very extensive research experience in studying perception and learning in humans (both healthy and neurologically impaired) and primate, using psychophysical, neurophysiological, neural modeling, engineering and robotic ...

Dr Risa Sawaki is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Visual Experience Lab (directed by Professors Jane Raymond and Kim Shapiro). Her main research goal is to understand cognitive mechanisms of visual attention, memory, value learning, and their interactions. She employs behavioral and neuroscience approaches, including event-related potentials (ERPs) and time-frequency analysis. She ...

Dr Chie Takahashi is a postdoctoral research fellow in Cognitive Psychology and Brain Science at the Behavioural Brain Sciences Centre, and a member of the Selective Attention & Awareness Laboratory (SAAL)directed by Dr Jason Braithwaite. Her current research is to investigate the brain mechanisms of cortical hyperexcitability and the out-of-body experiences in non-clinical ...

Dr Claudio Tennie’s work focusses on the evolutionary origins of modern human culture (and cooperation).

I am interested in investigating the relationships between the brain, cognition and behaviour.

Rachel Wright is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow working in the Sensory Motor Neuroscience research group. Her current research is funded by The Stroke Association and investigates auditory cueing in walking and stepping.

David Booth investigates the ways in which an individual's life works. His research and teaching centre on the processes in the mind that fit to the current situation the actions and reactions by people, members of other species and, indeed, intelligent robots.

I am a cellular and molecular neurobiologist by training but I have made career change from neurobiology to cognitive neuropsychology and swapped lab bench with microscope for MRI scanner.

My main research interests lie in Cognitive Neuropsychology, Visual Attention and Numerical Cognition.

Dr Johannsen’s reseach interests cover a range of topics related to the control of body balance, posture and gait: ageing, stroke, cognition-motor interference, interpersonal postural coordination, 'light touch' effects on balance, and neurorehabilitation.

Dr Mavritsaki investigates the underlying processes in visual cognition and learning using biological plausible spiking neurons. Furthermore, she identifies new mathematical techniques that will allow the easier identification of the parameter space in such complicated systems.

Stemming from many years of clinical psychology work with older people in the NHS, my research focuses on understanding psychological adjustment to a range of the most common but difficult hurdles old age can bring, including loss and bereavement, dementia, long-term illness and facing death. I am interested in factors that contribute to ill-being or well-being, including the ways that people, ...

Jane Riddoch is a cognitive neuropsychologist whose research covers visual disorders (agnosia, optic aphasia), disorders of attention (neglect, extinction) and action (apraxia, action disorganisation syndrome) and neuropsychological rehabilitation. She originally trained as a physiotherapist, then took a degree and PhD in Psychology. She has published 150 papers in leading international journals ...

Dr Ali Chowdhury is a registered Clinical Scientist and MR Physicist in a joint post with the BUIC and the University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) NHS Foundation Trust. His work in the area of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Spectroscopy (MRS) includes providing expert advice in sequence development, quality assurance (QA) and MR safety. In addition, he is active in clinical research ...