FacultySarah-Jayne Blakemore
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is a Royal Society University Research Fellow
and Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL. She is Leader of the
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Group at the ICN and her research
focuses on social cognition in adolescence and in autism spectrum
disorders.
Sarah-Jayne studied
Experimental Psychology at Oxford University (1993-1996) and then did her PhD (1996-2000) at
the Functional Imaging Lab (FIL) with Chris Frith and Daniel Wolpert,
investigating the self-monitoring of action in healthy individuals and
people with schizophrenia. She then took up a Wellcome Trust
International Research Fellowship (2001-2003) to work in Lyon, France, with Jean
Decety on the perception of causality in the human brain. This was
followed by a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship (2004-2007) at the Institute
of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL.
Sarah-Jayne is actively involved in Public Engagement with Science: she frequently gives public lectures and talks at schools, has
worked with the Select Committee for Education, acted as scientific
consultant on the BBC series The Human Mind in 2003, and co-authored a
book with Professor Uta Frith called The Learning Brain: Lessons for Education.
Sarah-Jayne is Deputy Director of the Wellcome Trust Four Year PhD Programme in Neuroscience at UCL. She is Associate Editor for Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience and Social Neuroscience. She is co-Editor-in-Chief of the new journal Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
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email: s.blakemore @ ucl.ac.uk
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Post-Doctoral Research FellowsGuillaume Barbalat
Dr Guillaume
Barbalat is a psychiatrist who works in Lyon, France. He completed his
PhD on neuroscience, investigating the neural substrates
of decision-making processes in diverse populations including patients
with schizophrenic, children with dyslexia, addict subjects and
typically developing adolescents. His research has involved using
tecniques such as fMRI, information theory and sequential sampling
models.
During his postdoctoral fellowship, he will study social cognition in
patients with schizophrenia and in typically developing adolescents in
the Blakemore lab.
Kathrin Cohen Kadosh
Kathrin Cohen Kadosh's research focuses on
the emergence of (social) cognitive abilities in the typical and
atypically developing human brain from early childhood through
adulthood, using a variety of neuroimaging methods, such as ERP, fMRI,
and TMS in combination with behavioural methods. In particular, she has
been working on pinpointing the developmental trajectories underlying
the cortical specialization for face processing and how these map onto
the corresponding increases in processing proficiency. Lately, she has
also become interested in the changing neural patterns of functional
and effective connectivity across the developmental span, using dynamic
causal modeling methods.
Iroise DumontheilDr Iroise Dumontheil
did her degree in Biology at the ENS Cachan and University of Paris XI,
followed by a Masters in Cognitive Sciences at University of Paris
VI. Her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience, entitled "Rostral Prefrontal
Cortex and Control of Attention", was awarded by the University of
Paris VI, and was supervised by Prof. Alain Berthoz, from the
College de France (Paris) and Prof. Paul Burgess, from the Institute of
Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL. She recently spent a year as a
Postdoctoral Research Fellow funded by the Fyssen Fundation to work
with Prof. John Duncan at the MRC-Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in
Cambridge. She is currently a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the
ICN, working with Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on the development of rostral
prefrontal cortex, using both behavioural and functional/structural
neuroimaging methods. email: i.dumontheil@ucl.ac.uk
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PhD studentsStephanie Burnett
Stephanie Burnett
completed a degree in Psychology and Physiology at Corpus Christi
College, Oxford University. During that time she worked part-time at
the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics with Jonathan Flint and at
a residential centre for autistic adults, and also did an undergraduate
research project with Edmund Rolls. She was then accepted on to the
Wellcome Trust four year programme in Neuroscience at UCL. Stephanie is
currently doing a PhD with Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Chris Frith
looking at social cognition and its neural correlates in adolescence.
e-mail: s.burnett@ucl.ac.uk
Jennifer Cook
Jennifer Cook
studied Psychology at Bath University. During this time she did a
year-long placement at Oxford University in which she investigated the
neural correlates of slot machine gambling. Jennifer is currently on
the Wellcome Trust four year programme in Neuroscience at UCL under the
supervision of Sarah-Jayne Blakemore. She is investigating action
observation in typically developing adolescents and in ASC.
e-mail: jennifer.cook@ucl.ac.uk
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Hauke Hillebrandt Hauke Hillebrandt
majored in 'Integrated Social and Cognitive Psychology' at Jacobs
University, Bremen, Germany and also studied abroad at UCL. He will do
a PhD with Sarah-Jayne Blakemore investigating stereotypes and
prejudice during adolescence. e-mail: hauke.hillebrandt@gmail.com
Catherine SebastianCatherine Sebastian
studied Experimental Psychology at Oxford University, and stayed on to
do an MSc in Neuroscience. While there, she worked on a number of
projects related to developmental disord
ers including an ERP study on
dyslexia, and investigation of face processing abilities in the
relatives of people with autism. Catherine is doing a PhD with
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Essi Viding investigating self-reference and
self-awareness in typically developing adolescence, and in
high-functioning adolescents on the autistic spectrum.
e-mail: c.sebastian@ucl.ac.uk
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Interns and project studentsAnne-Lise Goddings
Dr Anne-Lise Goddings is a paediatrician working on a research project on brain development during puberty in collaboration with project with Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and
Dr Russell Viner at the Institute of Child Health.
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Recent alumni
Olivia Kuster, Erasmus Intern student 2009, currently Masters student at the University of Konstanz,
Germany
Rachael Houlton, Wellcome Trust PhD project rotation 2009, currently PhD student in UCL NPP
Rachel Swain, Wellcome Trust summer student 2008, currently Natural Sciences graduate, Cambridge
Ana Seara Cardoso, Intern student 2008, currently PhD student in UCL Psychology
Ben de Haas, Intern student 2009, currently Wellcome Trust PhD student at UCL
Bano Hassan, Masters student 2008, currently Research Assistant ICH, UCL
Dr Zillah Boraston, Wellcome Trust PhD student 2004-2008, currently Scientific Office at
DEFRA Dr Stephanie Thompson, BBSRC PhD student 2004-2007, currently on a gap year
Isobel Pastor-Bristow, Wellcome Trust summer student 2004, currently
Civil Service Fast Track Susana Calo, Intern student 2004, currently PhD student at ICH, UCL
Teresa Tavassoli, Intern student 2004, currently PhD student at Autism Research Centre, Cambridge
Dr Niall Boyce, Medical Elective student 2004, currently Psychiatrist
Dr Suparna Choudhury, MRC PhD student 2003-2006, currently Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin,
Germany
Dr Hanneke den Ouden, Erasmus Intern student 2009, currently post-doc at Radboud University Nijmegen
Emily Jacobs, Intern student 2003, currently PhD student at UC Berkeley, USA
