attention, social interaction, visual processing, electroencephalography

My research investigates how social interactions shape our perception, and how attention facilitates these processes. The interactions that we have with other people can shape our interpretation of the world around us, as the groups we belong to can provide a shared context. To investigate how these shared representations develop, I use neural data in combination with machine learning techniques to explore the information in the brain. A part my work has focussed on how selective attention affects the processing of visual information in the brain, and how this information then guides behaviour. My research disentangled attention effects in the brain from other cognitive processes, such as visual short-term memory, decision-making, and temporal expectation. In my current projects, I use dual EEG (hyperscanning) to measure the brain activity from two people as they interact with each other. I use this method to investigate how we represent information about self and other during social interaction.