People

The following descriptions were written by Edwin, and reflect his exceedingly positive opinions of his colleagues and collaborators. Where applicable, links to personal websites have been included (click on a name to find out more).

Edwin Dalmaijer

Edwin Dalmaijer

University of Bristol, UK

Edwin’s research interests are best summarised as the quantitative exploration of development, both within individuals and in populations. Broadly, he investigates how affective and cognitive faculties impact each other, and how they are affected by the environment. Edwin triangulates problems with narrowly focussed experiments aided by computational models of behaviour, with machine learning to find complex patterns in large secondary datasets, and with agent-based population simulations.

Sameer Alladin

Sameer Alladin

PhD Candidate
Sameer studies the interplay between gastric and neural physiology in disgust. He uses machine learning to align electrophysiological recordings from stomach and brain, and tests how they are impacted by pharmacological manipulations. The end goals are to better understand the gut-brain connection in disgust, and to reduce the negative impact of daily disgust for NHS workers who deal with bodily effluvia.

Sameer has an undergraduate in Psychology, and postgraduate degrees in Music and in Applied Neuropsychology (all with impressively high marks, merits, and distinctions). His PhD is funded by a highly competitive scholarship for international students at Bristol.

Evgeniya (Jenny) Anisimova

Evgeniya (Jenny) Anisimova

Research Assistant
Jenny runs a methodological study on the combined measurement of electrogastrography (EGG) and electroencephalography (EEG).

Thomas Hawkins

Thomas (Tom) Hawkins

MSc by Research
Tom combines eye-tracking, cognitive tests, and computational modelling to investigate attention. His project includes a methodological assessment of a new eye tracker, and models of spatial attention at rest and during multi-target visual search.

Will Hughes

Will Hughes

MSc by Research
Will’s project, supervised by Prof Chris Jarrold and myself, is on attentional control and short-term memory.

Will Mills

Will Mills

Research Assistant (summer 2023) and BSc dissertation student
Will investigates cumulative culture in human navigation, using a virtual environment he developed in Unity and C#.

Collaborators

In alphabetical order of last names.

Tom Armstrong

Tom Armstrong

Whitman College, WA, USA

Tom is a clinical psychologist who studies disgust. He is an early adopter of eye tracking in this field, with a nearly pathological preference for low-cost devices. We work on the lack of habituation to disgust (Dalmaijer et al., 2021, JEP:General), the cultural evolution of disgust (Dalmaijer & Armstrong, preprint, arXiv), and the online eye-tracking alternative MouseView.js (Anwyl-Irvine et al., in press, Behaviour Research Methods).

Duncan Astle

Duncan Astle

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, UK

Duncan is a developmental cognitive neuroscientist who uses neuroimaging, machine learning, and large datasets to investigate how children and their brains develop. We do methodological work together (e.g. Dalmaijer et al., 2022, BMC Bioinformatics on cluster algorithms, and Dalmaijer et al., 2020, in: Oxford Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience on magnetoencephalography), and we investigate how socioeconomic status impacts child development (e.g. Dalmaijer et al., 2021, Current Psychology).

Lauren S. Hallion

Lauren S. Hallion

University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Lauren is a clinical and research psychologist who studies the cognitive and neural mechanisms of anxiety. We work together on a project that Lauren leads and that spans across several labs across North America, on the longitudinal effects of COVID-19 on mental wellbeing.

Karla Holmboe

Karla Holmboe

University of Bristol, UK

Karla is a developmental psychologist who investigates executive functions in babies and toddlers. We work together on methods to measure cognition in very young children, including eye-tracking and electroencephalography (EEG).

Masud Husain

Masud Husain

University of Oxford, UK

Masud is a professor of clinical neurology with a wide range of expertise, including in hemispatial neglect, short-term memory, and apathy in health and disease. We have worked on how visual short-term memories are encoded (Edwin’s thesis), how search organisation can be measured (Dalmaijer et al., 2015, Behavior Research Methods), and the efficacy of guanfacine in the rehabilitation of attention, short-term memory, and search in people who suffer from hemispatial neglect after stroke (Dalmaijer* & Li* et al., 2018, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry).

Camilla Nord

Camilla Nord

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, UK

Camilla is a mental health neuroscientist who investigates the basis of neuropsychiatric disorders with neuroimaging, brain stimulation, and computational modelling. She has a keen interest in interoception, which is the basis of our collaboration on the role of gastric state in disgust (Nord* & Dalmaijer* et al., 2021, Current Biology). Sometimes, we also venture into statistical power (Dalmaijer et al., 2022, BMC Bioinformatics).

Lab alumni

Aidan Chan

Aidan Chan

Research Assistant (summer 2023)
Aidan’s summer project focussed on the gastric electrophysiology of disgust in adults, and how it relates to gaze behaviour and facial expressions.

Faye Chan

Faye Chan

MSc Student (2021-2022)
Faye studied links between disgust and trait psychopathy.

Charlotte Edgar

Charlotte Edgar

MSc Student (2021-2022)
Inspired by her own experiences, Charlotte studied disgust avoidance in healthcare assistants who work in care homes.

Ruth Judson

Ruth Judson

Research Assistant (2022-2023)
Ruth studied the gastric electrophysiology of disgust in children.

Eve Panton

Eve Panton

Research Assistant (2021-2023)
Eve studied how socioeconomic environment impacts resilience to adversity.

Poppy Whittaker

Poppy Whittaker

Research Assistant (2022-2023)
Poppy studied the gastric electrophysiology of disgust in children.

Po-Liang Yeh

Po-Liang Yeh

MSc Student (2021-2022)
Po-Liang studied how to employ disgust-based messaging to improve hygiene information.

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