Main topics.
How the human brain encodes and decodes facial expression, how that shapes behaviour, and how reliably any of it can be measured. Four threads run through every project.
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Face perception
How the brain extracts identity and diagnostic features from faces, and how those features attract the eye even when recognition is unaffected. ERP markers (N170, EPN, LPP) paired with fixation-based measures under brief and sustained viewing.
II
Emotion
How the brain reads emotional signals — from other people's faces and from anticipated pain — and how accumulating evidence under difficulty shows up in electrophysiology. Emotion recognition, anticipation, and affective processing.
III
Social cognition
Gaze direction as a social signal. Direct versus averted gaze in interactive paradigms — including Cyberball-style exclusion and overinclusion — and how those cues modulate early neural responses to rejection and acceptance.
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Reproducibility & replicability
EEG and eye-tracking analyses have many defensible paths. Multi-analyst and many-labs projects (EEGManyPipelines, OHBM Brainhack, ARTEM-IS) quantify how much analytic variability shapes conclusions, and point toward preregistration, shared pipelines, and robust defaults.
Collaborations
Active collaborations with labs working on social cognition, developmental neuroscience, and methods reform in psychophysiology. Reach me via Scholar or ORCID.