Academic staff in the School of Psychology 

Head of School

Professor Kim Shapiro

Professor Kim Shapiro

Professor and Chair of Cognitive Neuroscience
Head of School

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 ...

Telephone +44 (0)121 414 4930

Email k.l.shapiro@bham.ac.uk

Academic staff

Dr Katerina Kantartzis

Dr Katerina Kantartzis

Research Associate

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 ...

Telephone +44 (0)121 414 7219

Email k.f.kantartzis@bham.ac.uk

Efthalia Karakatsani

Doctoral Researcher

Title of PhD: Self-injury and aggression in young children at high risk for self-injury

Supervisors: Professor Chris Oliver and Dr Dawn Adams

Telephone +44(0)121 414 2855

Email exk085@bham.ac.uk

Jess Kerlin

Jess Kerlin

Research Associate
Doctoral Researcher

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.

Telephone +44 (0)121 414 4637

Email j.r.kerlin@bham.ac.uk

Dr Sotaro Kita

Dr Sotaro Kita

Reader

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.

My Researcher IDs are as follows

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

ORCiD: http://o ...

Telephone +44 (0)121 41 46203

Email s.kita@bham.ac.uk

Dr Ansgar Koene

Dr Ansgar Koene

Research Fellow

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.

Telephone +44 (0)121 41 49517

Email a.r.koene@bham.ac.uk

Professor Zoe Kourtzi

Chair in Brain Imaging

Telephone +44 (0)121 41 48509

Email z.kourtzi@bham.ac.uk

Dr Andrea Krott

Dr Andrea Krott

Senior Lecturer

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 ...

Telephone +44 (0)121 414 4903

Email a.krott@bham.ac.uk