Antonia Hamilton's lab for Social Cognition
News
Waterloo foundation funding received
August 2011
The Hamilton lab has received funding from the Waterloo foundation for a project in collaboration with Dr Elisabeth Hill. This project will test the relationship between motor skills and social skills in primary school age children.
ESRC funding received
September 2011
The Hamilton lab has been awarded a small grant from the ESRC to study the control of mimicry by different social cues.
Eye contact enhances mimicry in mPFC
August 2011
Yin's paper published in Journal of Neuroscience demonstrates that medial prefrontal cortex is a key controller in implementing the effect of eye contact on mimicry. This work has been covered in the press here
Actors and actions in the brain
January 2010
The first Hamilton lab paper based on work performed only at the University of Nottingham is accepted - Ramsey & Hamilton (2010) NeuroImage.
British Academy funding
July 2009
We will be studying how children with autism represent the human body from different perspectives, under a grant from the British Academy
Hamilton lab established
June 2007
The Hamilton lab is established at the University of Nottingham. Funding from Autism Speaks and the ESRC allows us to begin work immediately.
Coverage of the lab in the media
Rich on TV Rich demonstrates one of our new studies to the BBC.
New dance study covered in a press release from Dartmouth. The research paper is on the Publications page.
School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK antonia.hamilton - at - nottingham.ac.uk