Who are the CogNIRS team?
We are a group of researchers from ICN and Engineering who are collaborating to make fNIRS studies of adult cognition in the real world into a reality.
Antonia Hamilton
is leader of the Social Neuroscience group at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (UCL). Her research focuses on the neural and cognitive mechanisms of non-verbal social interactions such as imitation and eye contact. She also studies differences in the social brain in people with autism.
is leader of the Executive Function & Metacognition group at ICN. His work focuses on the role that the frontal lobes of the brain play in enabling us to decide what we want to achieve, and then organise our behaviour to that end, often over long time periods. He also investigates disorders of executive function in neurological patients, people experiencing mental health problems, and people with a diagnosis of autism.
is a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow and Reader in Biomedical Engineering. He is a senior member of the Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory and heads the Multi-Modal Spectroscopy Group. His research is highly multi-disciplinary, crossing the boundaries between engineering, physics, neuroscience and clinical medicine.Major focus of his research is to investigate the use and limitations of fNIRS in neuroscience and clinical monitoring in newborns with brain injury. A major focus of his research is investigating the use and limitations of fNIRS in neuroscience and clinical monitoring in newborns with brain injury.
is Professor of Neuroscience at UCL Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobiology at Yale University, in New Haven, CT. She has pioneered research using fNIRS to track brain states in two person social interactions.
More information on her web site: www.fMRI.org
is a Research Associate in the Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory in the Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering at UCL. Her current research projects involve the use of the new generation of wireless and wearable functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) devices in naturalistic environments. More precisely, her work focuses on the development and implementation of new algorithms and tools for the analysis of fNIRS data collected in more ecologically-valid settings with unstructured cognitive experiments.
Roser Canigueral
is a PhD student in ICN. She has been awarded a Yale / UCL award to study fNIRS in the Hirsch lab in Yale, and is currently examining the neural mechanisms of being watched by another person.