Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences
University College London, Institute of Neurology
University of Oxford, Experimental Psychology
The Queen's College
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A. C. Nobre
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About
I completed my D.Phil in cognitive neuroscience under the supervision of Kia Nobre in the Brain and Cognition Lab at the University of Oxford. The purpose of my research was to delineate the effects of reward and spatial (attentional) expectations upon neural activity across the time-course of human information processing. I used event-related potentials (ERPs) and behavioural measures while participants performed perceptual discriminations, decision making tasks and selection of a target from a visual search array. I examined how stimulus-outcome associations are formed, maintained and updated, and the influence these have upon behaviour and neural activity in subsequent trials.
In my post at the UCL IoN I studied the way in which sensory perturbations influence complex motor behaviour. Specifically I examined how the brain can compensate for unexpected and expected vestibular perturbations when navigating towards a target location in space. I used motion capture to study the fine detail of movement both during the dynamic movement phase and at movement endpoint.
