CogNovo Research Fellows work closely with leading University of Plymouth academics from the Schools of Psychology, Computing and Mathematics, Arts and Media, Medicine and Dentistry, the Graduate School, and the Cognition Institute.
Prof. Jackie Andrade is an expert on the role of mental imagery in behaviour change. (more)
PROJECTS: 13
Dr Alison Bacon is a lecturer in Psychology at the University of Plymouth (more)
PROJECTS: 15
Prof. Tony Belpaeme specializes in human-machine interaction and cognition. His work starts from the observation that people readily adopt machines as social agents and as such the can become part of human distributed cognition. (more)
Prof. Roman Borisyuk is a world expert on dynamical systems and computational modelling of neural activity. (more)
Dr Guido Bugmann works on human-robot dialogue systems, motion controllers for wheeled and humanoid robots, and modelling biological vision and instruction-based learning (more)
PROJECTS: 16
Prof. Angelo Cangelosi is director of the Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems and an expert in the role of novelty and exploration in language learning and symbol grounding in robotic systems. (more)
Dr. Martin Coath is a computational neuroscientist who has been successfully developing public engagement and outreach activities within the University of Plymouth for a decade. (more)
PROJECTS: 17
Dr. Lucy Davies is a computational neuroscientist with an interest in sensory perception and adaptation who works for the Cognition Institute, University of Plymouth, as a research facilitator. (more)
Dr Catherine Deeprose carries out research investigating cognitive vulnerability factors for psychopathology, including depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. She is also interested in the impact of changes in cognitive function in both normal and pathological aging.
PROJECTS:18
Prof. Sue Denham, Director of the Cognition Institute and co-ordinator of CogNovo, is an expert in neural and cognitive models of perception, especially multi-stability in auditory perceptual organisation. (more)
Dr Hannah Drayson is an artist-researcher, exploring the history and philosophy of scientific instrumentation, objectivity, poetics and performanceis a Lecturer in Digital Art & Technology & Immersive Media Design at the School of Art and Media, University of Plymouth (more)
Prof. Judy Edworthy is a leading expert on the design, application and underlying theory surrounding the use of alarms for use in everyday environments and specific high-workload applications. (more)
PROJECTS: 12
Dr Mathew Emmett explores situated cognition, space perception and the mechanisms of dissonance across mixed-media installation, architecture and sound. (more)
PROJECTS: 15
Dr Caroline Floccia is running the Babylab at the University of Plymouth, a research facilities using the latest experimental techniques to study language, cognitive and social development in infants and toddlers (more)
PROJECTS: 21
Professor Mick Fuller is the head of the University of Plymouth Graduate School, Chair of the UKCGE and on the Steering committee for the European Universities Association Council for Doctoral Education (EUA-CDE). (more)
Dr. Giorgio Ganis is an expert in visual, cognitive, and social neuroscience, including the creative processes underlying deception. (more)
Jeremy Goslin is a psycholinguist with an interest in the cognitive processes of lexical access, with both behavioural and electrophysiological research ranging from investigations of accent processing to the role of object-based affordance in speech perception. (more)
Prof. Jane Grant is a multi-award winning artist and International Ph.D supervisor with the Planetary Collegium. (more)
Dr. Michaela Gummerum applies ecological approaches in her investigations into social development, with a focus on the development of moral judgements and relationships. (more)
Stephen Hall specialises in Human Neuroimaging. His research focuses on understanding the role of neuronal network phenomena such as oscillations in the control of sensorimotor function in health and disease (more)
PROJECTS: 20
Dr. Yaniv Hanoch is an expert in bounded rationality, medical decision making and risk taking. (more)
PROJECTS: 14
Prof. Chris Harris is a leading expert in motor control with a focus on the impact of noise on eye movements. (more)
Dr. Ian Howard has a background in engineering and motor neuroscience. His research involves the development of robotics devices, investigating and modeling the human motor system using behavioral tasks, and building computational models of speech acquisition and production. (more)
PROJECTS: 19
Dr. Peter Jones investigates basic processes in learning and attention, how they relate to behaviour, and the brain mechanisms on which they rely (more)
PROJECTS: 20
Davide Marocco is a expert on artificial neural networks and evolutionary computation applied to robot control. His research interests are focused on cognitive and evolutionary robotics and artificial life models of behavior and cognition (more)
PROJECTS: 25
Dr. John Matthias is a multi-award winning composer, musician and physicist specialising in the development of Spiking Neuronal Network technology in contemporary Arts Practice. (more)
Prof. Jon May carries out research on the role of mental imagery in dance choreography and in distributed social creativity. (more)
Prof. Moles is Director of Dental Postgraduate Education and Research at the University of Plymouth, and an expert in clinical decision making, patient communication, and the psychosocial impact of oral disease. (more)
Dr Mona Nasser is a clinical researcher with expertise in evidence-based clinical decision making. (more)
PROJECTS: 15
PROJECTS: 24
Prof. Mike Phillips is Director of Research at i-DAT, an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation, and a Principal Supervisor for the Planetary Collegium. (more)
Prof. Michael Punt, co-convenor of Transtechnology Research and Editor-in-Chief of Leonardo Reviews, is a film-maker and expert on experimental film. (more)
Dr. Haline Schendan is an expert on the brain basis of how mental imagery influences vision, learning and memory, and how mental imagery drives creativity. (more)
Dr William Simpson studies how the human visual system converts the light flux falling on the retinas into a moving 3D world.
PROJECTS: 10
Dr Sylvia Terbeck is a lecturer in social psychology. Her research centers around moral decision making and intergroup relations. Her work is highly interdisciplinary; she is collaborating with philosophy (University of Oxford) as well as Computer Science (UCL) (more)
PROJECTS: 19
Dr. Clare Walsh is interested in human thinking and imagination. Her research focusses on investigating the cognitive processes underlying counterfactual thinking, causal attribution and belief change. (more)
PROJECTS:18
Dr. Katharine S. Willis's research work is concerned with exploring the many ways through which we perceive and interact with our spatial environment. A key aim of the work is to propose approaches for creating legible environments when urban space is experienced through new technologies (more)
PROJECTS: 16
Dr. Thomas Wennekers is a leading authority in Computational Neuroscience. He uses large-scale, multiple area models of biologically realistic spiking-neuron networks to simulate cognitive functions. (more)
Laurence White has research interests in language and communication, particularly speech perception, speech production and language development. A central strand of ongoing work considers form and function in speech rhythm and timing (more)
PROJECTS 21
Emma Whittaker convenes the Expanded Narrative Research group. Her research is concerned with perception, design and development of locative narrative and spatial audio environments. (more)
