|
 Sarah Jayne Blakemore studied Experimental Psychology at Oxford and then did her PhD at the Functional Imaging Lab with Chris Frith and Daniel Wolpert, investigating the self-monitoring of action in healthy individuals and people with schizophrenia. She then took up a Wellcome Trust International Research Fellowship to work in Lyon with Jean Decety on the perception of causality in the human brain. This was followed by a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. She currently holds a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. Her current work involves investigating social cognition in adolescence and in autism.
e-mail: s.blakemore@ucl.ac.uk
Homepage: http://www.icn.ucl.ac.uk/sblakemore/ |
|
 Uta Frith is Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Development at the University of London and Research Foundation Professor at the Faculties of Humanities and Health Sciences, University of Aarhus. She remains a member of the Developmental Group and continues to be involved in research on autism. To this end she has set up a network of ICN members who have an interest in autism related research.
e-mail: u.frith@ucl.ac.uk
Homepage: http://www.icn.ucl.ac.uk/dev_group/ufrith/index.htm
Click here for interview with Uta Frith and Chris Frith |
|
 John Morton was director of the MRC Cognitive Development Unit. He completed his PhD at Reading University in 1960, following which he worked at the MRC Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge. In 1982 he moved to the MRC Cognitive Development Unit at UCL and since 1998 has been an Emeritus member of the Development Group. His current work concerns multiple personality and memory in Dissociative Identity Disorder. He also continues to work on the causal modelling of developmental disorders, and has published a book on the topic, "Understanding Developmental Disorders: A Causal Modelling Approach" (Blackwell).
e-mail: j.morton@ucl.ac.uk
|
 Essi Viding studied Psychology at UCL, followed by two years working with James Blair on development of Psychopathy. She did her PhD with Francesca Happe and Jonna Kuntsi at the Institute of Psychiatry, investigating cognitive underpinnings of impulsive behaviour in conduct disorder and ADHD. During her PhD she also collaborated extensively with Robert Plomin, whose twin sample enabled her to investigate genetic underpinnings of psychopathic tendencies in children. Essi is now a lecturer at the UCL Department of Psychology. Her current work combines cognitive experimental measures, twin model-fitting, brain imaging, and genotyping to study different developmental pathways to persistent antisocial behaviour.
e-mail: e.viding@ucl.ac.uk
|
 Iroise Dumontheil did her degree in Biology at the ENS Cachan and University of Paris XI, followed by a Masters in Cognitive Sciences at University of Paris VI. Her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience, entitled "Rostral Prefrontal Cortex and Control of Attention", was awarded by the University of Paris VI, and was supervised by Prof. Alain Berthoz, from the College de France (Paris) and Prof. Paul Burgess, from the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL. She recently spent a year as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow funded by the Fyssen Fundation to work with Prof. John Duncan at the MRC-Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge. She is currently a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the ICN, working with Dr. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on the development of rostral prefrontal cortex, using both behavioural and functional/structural neuroimaging methods.
email: i.dumontheil@ucl.ac.uk
|
 Stephanie Burnett completed a degree in Psychology and Physiology at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. During that time she worked part-time at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics with Jonathan Flint and at a residential centre for autistic adults, and also did an undergraduate research project with Edmund Rolls. She was then accepted on to the Wellcome Trust four year programme in Neuroscience at UCL, where she spent her first year doing short projects with Michael Hausser, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Cathy Price. Stephanie is currently doing a PhD with Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Chris Frith looking at social cognition and its neural correlates in adolescence.
e-mail: s.burnett@ucl.ac.uk
|
 Catherine Sebastian studied Experimental Psychology at Oxford University, and stayed on to do an MSc in Neuroscience. While there, she worked on a number of projects related to developmental disorders including an ERP study on dyslexia, and investigation of face processing abilities in the relatives of people with autism. She is doing a PhD with Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Essi Viding investigating self-reference and self-awareness in typically developing adolescence, and in high-functioning adolescents on the autistic spectrum.
e-mail: c.sebastian@ucl.ac.uk
|
 Jennifer Cook studied Psychology at Bath University. During this time she did a year-long placement at Oxford University in which she investigated the neural correlates of slot machine gambling. She is currently on the Wellcome Trust four year programme in Neuroscience at UCL and has carried out one three-month project with Geraint Rees and is now supervised by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore. She is currently investigating biological motion detection thresholds.
e-mail: jennifer.cook@ucl.ac.uk
|
Hauke Hillebrandt is an intern student from Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany and is studying at UCL for a semester. He is interested in social cognitive neuroscience and social cognition.
e-mail: Hauke.Hillebrandt@gmail.com |
|  Sarah White studied Psychology and Physiology at Oxford University and then worked as a research assistant with Uta Frith on varous autism and dyslexia projects. She completed a PhD on cognitive subtypes in the autism spectrum in 2006, worked with Uta as a postdoc for a year and is currently supported by a 2-year MRC/ESRC Research Fellowship. Her research is concerned with understanding the causal basis of autism at the cognitive level, most recently starting to investigate cognitive heterogeneity at the neural level.
e-mail:s.white@ucl.ac.uk |
Many members of the ICN and UCL in general also collaborate in our research. We also have close contacts with a number of colleagues abroad.