Addison Billing

Addison Billing is a PhD student at UCL in both DOT-HUB and the Vocal Communication Group (Cognitive Neuroscience). She is interested in the development of the neural circuits that underlie social behaviour disorders such as Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC). Her current project examines individual differences in the production and perception of non-verbal vocal communication using a variety of non-invasive neurophysiological and behavioural measures. In infants, differences in these measures are correlated with the likelihood of later having an ASC diagnosis.

Addison completed her MRes at UCL at the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience with Professor Sophie Scott on optical and behavioural methods for studying non-verbal vocal communication. Her undergraduate and post-graduate research was under Dr Joseph Bergan at the University of Massachusetts studying the sexual dimorphism of the medial amygdala, which is a crucial node for social behaviour.