News

Congratulations to the newly minted Dr Bianca Schuster!!!

Congratulations to Alicia and all co-authors on their new publication in Scientific Reports on ‘Intact predictive motor sequence learning in autism spectrum disorder’. Click here for the open access version

Congratulations to Jen on being awarded a 2021 Philip Leverhulme Prize

New paper ‘Kinematics and observer-animator kinematic similarity predict mental state attribution from Heider–Simmel style animations’ out now in Scientific Reports. Click here for open access.

Congratulations to Bianca and all co-authors!

Great to see work on alexithymia from Lydia Hickman and Connor Keating mentioned in this article in Spectrum.

Congratulations to the team, especially first author Connor Keating, on their new paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34047905/ which was also mentioned in this article: https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/alexithymia-not-autism-may-drive-eye-gaze-patterns/

See here for a summary of the work: https://twitter.com/ConnorTKeating/status/1400119684557594626?s=20

Huge congratulations to Bianca who has won a JSPS postdoctoral fellowship to research mentalising in autism together with the amazing @AutismWaseda team in Tokyo!

Congratulations to Jen who has been made Associate Editor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience for Royal Society Open Science (https://royalsocietypublishing.org/journal/rsos)

This week we are (virtually) at the BNA Festival of Neuroscience, the Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) April meeting and the Society for Affective Science (SAS) Conference. Find out more at ….

Connor Keating’s talk “It’s all in the mind: elucidating two interacting contributors to emotion recognition accuracy” @SAS 15th April

Lydia Hickman’s poster “Examining movement differences in autism spectrum disorder and Parkinson’s disease” (BNA, poster no. PP001093; EPS no. 27)

Alicia Rybicki’s EPS talk “Dopaminergic modulation of learning from social and individual sources” 13:45 15th April (here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84442761973)

Sophie Sowden’s EPS poster “Effects of dopamine D2 receptor antagonist Haloperidol on movement speed in a drawing task” (no. 28)

Bianca Schuster’s poster “Effects of the dopamine D2 receptor antagonist Haloperidol on mentalizing performance in healthy adults” (BNA no. TP001214)

Thanks so much to our wonderful panel speakers, our chairperson Matt Bond, and everyone who joined us for our online event “Let’s talk about autism: Diversity and inclusion”. Check out this 1-hour-long highlights videos if you missed it