In collaboration with Julie
Grèzes, Patrick
Haggard, Beatriz
Calvo and Dick
Passingham from ICN and FIL. More properly called
action
observation by movement experts, we are looking at how what you can do
affects how you see. This work is also in collaboration with
choreographer and dancer Tom
Sapsford, who I met at the futurephysical.org
bio-tech
network exchange. The work was presented in a Neuroscience
2003 poster. You could also
read the abstract.
Read more about the project at Nova
Sciencenow.
In collaboration with Fulvia
Castelli
and Brian
Butterworth from ICN. We
are looking at numerosity estimation which is the ability to count
non-symbolically. Fulvia came up with a digital analogue response task
(DART) which we developed into an imaging experiment. Using this we are
asking whether there are regions of the brain which care more about
'How many' things there are than 'How much' stuff there is. You can
read an abstract.
As part of the methods group at the FIL I am working with Karl Friston,
Will Penny, Stefan
Kiebel and Rik
Henson. I am involved with development of SPM, a widely used
analysis program for fMRI data. On the website you can find links to
papers. I also have a position as Imaging Neuroscientist on an MRC
Co-operative grant which involves me in various small-scale
collaborations within the ICN.
I have been working with John Kearon from brainjuicer.com on an
investigation of the collective unconscious using an adapted version of
his online market research tool. It plays a simple word association
game and responds with what it has gleaned from previous interactions.
There is a poster
describing some of the thinking about it.
We also used the tool in an experiment at the ICA in
collaboration with Helene
Joffe from UCL. We used various catastrophic images and measured
people's reponses to them using skin conductance and free association
techniques. You can look at the images and results, but note that there are some unpleasant
and gory
news pictures in the sequence.