Profiles

I investigate the temporal dynamics of cognitive processes involved in the perception and recognition of face identity, facial expressions of emotion, gaze discrimination and their interactions, and how these processes relate more broadly to social cognition and individual traits. I am particularly interested in the central role of eyes in these processes, at the behavioural and neural levels. This includes understanding how the information contained in the eye region influences early perceptual stages, as well as higher level face recognition and facial expression discrimination processes. I also investigate how gaze direction interacts with facial expressions to orient attention in the environment.

Department of Psychology profile

My research focuses on how humans process faces in more ecologically valid settings using electroencephalography (EEG) and behavioural measures.

My research uses electroencephalography (EEG) to examine the neural experience of empathy, exploring how different types of stimuli, emotional expressions, and forms of empathy influence the Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) associated with empathic processing in the brain.

My research focuses on how social context influences our neural and behavioural responses. Specifically, I am interested in using electroencephalography (EEG) to investigate how individual differences and situational context interact to affect our performance and motivation.

My research investigates the neural processing of emotional facial expressions.

Alexandra is co-supervised by Katherine White. Her research focuses on the self-reference effect in the auditory domain.

I am interested in examining the relationship between empathic concern and facial emotion recognition and valence.

My thesis focuses on how emotional prosody influences the neural processing of facial expressions