Prof. Ian Apperly
http://www.ianapperly.eclipse.co.uk/ Prof. Ian Apperly is a professor of Cognition and Development and also the Director of Research for the School of Psychology, University of Birmingham. The focus of Prof. Apperly’s research group is on the processes involved in “higher cognitive functions”, such as mindreading, self-control, and mental flexibility, using a variety of methods from developmental and cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience. He is the author of a recent book titled “Mindreaders: The cognitive basis of theory of mind”. Prof. Apperly has received early career prizes from the British Psychological Society and the Experimental Psychological Society. He is on the editorial board of the journal Cognition, is treasurer of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and sits on the Psychology committee of the British Science Association. |
Prof. Shihui Han
http://www.psy.pku.edu.cn/LABS/CSCN_lab/index.html Prof. Shihui Han is a professor at the Department of Psychology and a principle investigator at the PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University. He is the director of Cultural and Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory. He is the chief editor of "Culture and Brain" and an associate editor of "Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience" and "Acta Psychologica Sinica". His research focuses on the cognitive, neural, and genetic mechanisms of social cognition such as self-referential processing and empathy. He is particularly interested in how culture interacts with biological factors to shape the neural correlates of social cognition. |
Dr. Geoff Bird
https://sites.google.com/site/geoffbirdlab/ Dr. Geoff Bird is a Senior Lecturer at the MRC Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, & Neuroscience, King's College London. Dr. Bird has focused his career on understanding the neuroscience of social interaction. His research looks at the neural basis of imitation, executive functions, empathy, decision making, and social emotions, in both typically developing adults as well as adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and alexithymia. With an interest in the translational aspect of his research, he has been providing workshops, coaching, and bespoke business solutions on learning, development, and reward functions for a range of clients in the legal, utilities, and financial sectors. He also served as a Science Policy Advisor to the UK Government. |
Dr. William Mandy
https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=WMAND51 Dr. William Mandy is a senior lecturer at UCL Research Department Clinical Educational and Health Psychology. As a psychologist who practices clinically and is engaged in research, he is interested in the ways in which autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are best conceptualised. He is particularly interested in the relationship between various aspects of executive function and the insistence on sameness that is seen in many children with an ASD. Additional research interests include: the autism phenotype in females and how it differs from that seen in males; consequences of sub-threshold social-communication impairments; development of social cognition in non-clinical populations; and autistic traits in non-autistic populations, including people with disordered eating. |
Dr. Jie Sui
http://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/team/principal-investigators/jie-sui Dr. Jie Sui is a research fellow at the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford and also at the Department of Psychology, Tsinghua University. Her research focuses on understanding the neural representation of social cognition (e.g., social associations, self-representation, and social reward) and how cultural experience shapes the neural circuits supporting social cognition. The work combines behavioural measures with neuropsychological and neuroimaging methods (EEG and fMRI). She is interested in the transfer of knowledge into the fields from child development, aging, to patients’ rehabilitation. She has been awarded a Royal Society International Incoming Fellowship, a Maria Curie Incoming International Fellowship, and an International Newton Fellowship. |