People
| Principal Investigator |
| Dr Greg Davis |
| Current Lab Members |
| Dr Emily Quin (Postdoctoral Researcher) Emily is an EPSRC-funded researcher exploring the behavioural predictors of imminent violence in public spaces and contributing to the development of innovative interventions. She is a Chartered Psychologist (BPS) and holds a Ph.D. in Criminology from the University of Cambridge. |
| Chloe Sainsbury (PhD Candidate) Chloe is a Queens' College Alexander Crummell scholar, completing her Ph.D. in Psychology with Dr Greg Davis. Her research concerns social perception of faces and eye gaze, using eye-tracking and behavioural measures of research. |
| Lynne Ling (PhD Candidate) The size of human attention window, while important for perception and cognition, is difficult to observe externally and measure. The goal of Lynne’s research is to use a novel behavioural paradigm, combined with eye-tracking techniques, to outline how attention may be quantitative measured and to establish links between attentional mechanisms and other cognitive processes. This is particularly applied to a social context, with investigations carried out for the perception of gazes, body gestures etc. |
| Bünyamin Emin Palanci (MPhil Candidate) Bünyamin is interested in understanding the role of conscious interference in decision making and its implications for free will. Further interested in the broader subject of memory, specifically directed forgetting and the neural mechanisms behind memory impairments caused by traumatic experiences in patients with dissociative amnesia. To understand the neural and cognitive foundations of decision making, along with the universal human experience of free will, he conducts experiments using the Libet paradigm. The classic Libet experiments have been subject to various criticisms, especially regarding the validity of the self-reported time of intention (W-time). In his experiments, he explores the time of the vetoing of an urge (V-time) as a potentially valid alternative to classic intention reports. Understanding the role of the veto in decision making would allow us to illuminate if and how conscious interference with automatic urges takes place. |
| Lab Alumni |
| Dr Alex Muhl-Richardson |
| Dr Max Parker |
| Dr Nayantara Ramamoorthy |
| Mila Mundrova |
| Dr Sergio Andrés Recio |
| Rory Durham |
| Josh Loyd |
| Dr Jen Daffron |