Antonia Hamilton's lab for Social Cognition
People
Dr Antonia Hamilton
Dr Hamilton received a BSc in Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology from Oxford University in 1998 and then worked as undergraduate research assistant in Oxford Babylab with Kim Plunkett. She completed a PhD on the impact of neuronal noise for the optimal control of human arm movements with Daniel Wolpert and then moved on to a post-doctoral work on social cognition with Uta Frith and Scott Grafton. In June 2007, she moved to the University of Nottingham as a lecturer in Psychology
Lab members
Bruce Yin Wang is a post-doc student working on mimicry. He is examining how and why people automatically imitate other people's actions.
Lauren Marsh is a PhD student studying how typical and autistic individuals understand rational and irrational actions.
Amy Pearson is a PhD student studying how typical and autistic individuals represent and understand the human hand and body from different viewpoints
Jessica White is a MSc student stuyding brain systems for social executive function
Dara Cussen is a MSc student studying brain systems for implicit theory of mind
Lorcan Kenny is a research assistant studying the development of motor and social skills in school children
Alumni
Richard Ramsey joined the lab in 2007 as a post-doctoral research fellow working on action understanding in the human brain. He is now a lecturer at Bangor University. Personal website
Emily Cross joined the lab as a visiting post-doc. She is now a lecturer at Bangor University.Personal website
Mirko Uljarevic
Imogen BoSmith
Collaborators
- Prof Wolfgang Prinz MPI CBS Leipzig
- Prof Uta Frith ICN UCL
- Dr Elisabeth Hill Goldsmiths
- Dr Emily Cross Bangor
School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK antonia.hamilton - at - nottingham.ac.uk