Centre for Perception and Cognition (CPC)

People

Meet our experts and find out more about their research interests

Dr Anne Mcbride

Senior Lecturer

Connect with Anne

Email: amcb@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 7483

Dr Arezoo Pooresmaeili MD, PhD

Associate Professor

Research interests

Cognitive Neuroscience, Sensory Perception, Higher Cognition, Attention, Reward Processing, Decision Making, Neuroimaging, Eye-tracking

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Arezoo

Email: A.Pooresmaeili@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 6652

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Dr Christoph Witzel

Lectureship in Psychology (Percptn Cog)

Research interests

My main technical expertise is colour psychophysics and behavioural experiments.The main focus of my work has been the role of language and experience in colour perception.More broadly, I am interested in how culture and experience shape automatic assumptions to form our subjective reality.See also "About", and for recent developments and PhD opportunities, see Lab Website.

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Christoph

Email: C.Witzel@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 4599

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Dr Denis Drieghe

Associate Professor

Research interests

My research can be situated in the field of eye movements during reading.
One of my main research lines has been related to parafoveal processing: How accurate is parafoveal processing, and how does it influence the decision whether to skip the next word or not; How does it relate to foveal processing (i.e. simultaneous or only after foveal processing has been concluded). Additionally, my research has examined reading in multiple languages (English, Dutch, Finnish, Chinese, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese), and has directly compared reading in different languages both between native speakers and within bilinguals. Recent projects involved looking at task effects during reading (e.g. reading for comprehension versus skimming) and individual differences in reading (e.g. spelling skills and reading ability).
Besides these topics, I'm also interested in a wide range of phenomena, all dealing with either eye movements in reading or the processing of words in general.

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Denis

Email: D.Drieghe@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2585

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Dr Edward Redhead

Associate Professor

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Edward

Email: E.Redhead@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2307

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Dr Erich Graf

Associate Professor

Research interests

Multisensory perception
Scene perception
Decision making

Connect with Erich

Email: E.W.Graf@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 4587

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Dr Greta Marie Fastrich

Research Fellow ESRC-Funded Project

Research interests

Learning and memory
Intrinsic motivation
Goal pursuit

Connect with Greta Marie

Email: G.M.Fastrich@soton.ac.uk

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Dr Guido Maiello

Lecturer

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Guido

Email: G.Maiello@soton.ac.uk

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Dr Hayward Godwin

Associate Professor

Research interests

I have a number of research interests, and they are as follows:
- How we search for target(s) in the environment, particularly using visual searches.
- Eye movement behaviour, focusing on search tasks

Connect with Hayward

Email: hayward.godwin@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 8528

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Professor Philip Higham

Professor of Experimental Psychology

Research interests

Enhancing student learning in educational settings
Protecting social media users from fake news
Understanding the interplay of controlled and automatic influences of retrieval practice

Connect with Philip

Email: higham@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 5942

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