Research

How people perceive faces, direct attention in social contexts, and how reliably we can measure any of it with EEG and eye-tracking.

Face perception

How the brain extracts identity, emotion, and social cues from faces, and how diagnostic facial features drive overt attention and covert recognition. Combines ERP markers (N170, EPN, LPP) with fixation-based measures during brief and sustained viewing.

Social attention

Gaze direction as a carrier of social signal. Work on direct versus averted gaze during interactive paradigms (including Cyberball-style exclusion) shows how gaze modulates early neural responses to inclusion and rejection.

Analytic reproducibility

EEG and eye-tracking analyses have many defensible paths. Multi-lab, multi-team projects (EEGManyPipelines) quantify how much analytic variability shapes conclusions, and point toward preregistration, shared pipelines, and robust defaults.

Methods

Dense-array EEG, mobile and lab-based eye-tracking, time-frequency analysis, preregistered designs, Bayesian and mixed-effects modeling, open data and code.

Collaborations

Active collaborations with labs working on social cognition, developmental neuroscience, and methods reform in psychophysiology. Inquiries welcome via email.