Humans are an intensely social species that possess a profound need to understand each other. The visual cues we use to interpret the behaviour and intentions of other people are generated by the movements and actions of their faces and bodies.  We study how these social cues are processed in the brain, specifically in a neural circuit called the Third Visual Pathway. Read more about this research here Third Pathway Paper 

Faces are rich sources of social information that simultaneously convey someone’s identity, attentional focus, and emotional state. Humans process this wealth of socially relevant information in a cortical network of face-selective regions distributed across the brain. We use TMS to transiently disrupt a targeted brain region and measure the effects of this disruption on behaviour and in the brain using fMRI. Read more about this research here TMS and fMRI and here  TMS and Faces.

TMS can safely, and transiently, disrupt normal neuronal function in a targeted brain region. The effects of this disruption can be measured using the standard tools of behavioural psychologgy (e.g. task performance, RT) and across the brain using neuroimaging. You can read more about these techniques here TMS Review. We also compare the effects of TMS disruption with behavioural studies of neuropsychological patients Herschel Study