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

School of Psychology

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

Professor Uta Noppeney

Professor Uta Noppeney

Chair in Computational Neuroscience

School of Psychology

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 ...

Email u.noppeney@bham.ac.uk

Dr Arie Nouwen

Dr Arie Nouwen

Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology

School of Psychology

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.

Telephone +44 (0)121 41 47203

Email a.nouwen@bham.ac.uk