People and Research
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Current members
Uta Frith
Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Development Antonia Hamilton
Social Neuroscience group leader Paul Burgess
Metacognition & Executive Functions group leader Sarah White
Senior Research Fellow Sam Gilbert
Metacognition & Executive Functions group leader Jo Moss
Senior Research Fellow Gillian Hughes
Research Assistant (Sarah White's Group) Autism Research Coordinator |
Professor Uta Frith (FBA, FMedSci, FRS) completed her undergraduate degree in experimental psychology at the Universitaet des Saarlandes before training in clinical psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. She completed her PhD on autism in 1968. Uta Frith has pioneered much of the current research in autism and dyslexia, and has written several books on these issues. Throughout her career she has been developing a neuro-cognitive approach to developmental conditions. In particular, she has investigated specific cognitive processes and their failure in autism and dyslexia.
Professor Antonia Hamilton received a BSc in Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology from Oxford University in 1998, and then completed a PhD on the impact of neuronal noise for the optimal control of human arm movements with Daniel Wolpert. She then moved on to post-doctoral work on social cognition with Uta Frith and Scott Grafton. Her research aims to uncover the cognitive and brain mechanisms which allow us to make sense of other people's everyday actions and respond appropriately, and also to test if these systems are compromised in autistic people.
Professor Paul Burgess studied for an undergraduate degree in at Nottingham University in 1983, and received his PhD from the Institute of Neurology, University College London, in 1992. His research is concerned with discovering 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 is interested in finding out the role that perturbation or atypical development of frontal lobe structures might play in the presentation of psychiatric and psychosocial disorders such as schizophrenia and autism spectrum conditions.
Dr Sarah White received her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Physiology from Oxford University, and completed her PhD in 2006 at UCL with Uta Frith and Elisabeth Hill. She currently holds a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellowship. Her research is concerned with understanding the cognitive mechanisms underlying the symptoms of autism, with a particular focus on implicit mentalizing. She's currently especially interested in how these cognitive differences might effect mental health in autism, and in autistic cognition in the Fragile X Premutation and Broader Autism Phenotype. She was also the Autism Research Coordinator from its founding in 2007 until 2013.
Dr Sam Gilbert received his BA from the University of Oxford in 1999 and his PhD from University College London in 2002. Sam is currently a Royal Society Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. He researches the role of prefrontal cortex in social cognition and neurocognitive changes associated with autism spectrum disorders. He uses behavioural tasks, computational modelling, functional neuroimaging and neuropsychological approaches.
Dr Jo Moss completed her PhD at the University of Birmingham and continued to follow a career in research within the field of neurodevelopmental disorders at St George’s Hospital (Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London), and at the Cerebra Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders (School of Psychology, University of Birmingham). Her principal research interests include the presence, nature and developmental course of autism spectrum phenomenology and social functioning in individuals with intellectual disability and genetic syndromes.
Gillian completed her MSc in psychological sciences at UCL in September 2022. She joined Sarah White's group in 2021 for her MSc thesis where she explored the relationship between implicit mentalizing and autistic traits in women with the fragile x premutation. Since completing her MSc, she has continued to work as a research assistant in Sarah's group, the Development Diversity Lab. Currently, she works on the lab’s Intergroup bias project and serves as the Autism Research Coordinator.
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Past members
Previous Autism Research Coordinator. DPhil student at University of Oxford
Previous Autism Research Coordinator and PhD student at UCL. Lecturer at University of Surrey Previous Autism Research Coordinator (2018-2019). Post-doctoral researcher at UCL Prediction and Learning Lab group leader (Cambridge University) Previous Autism Research Coordinator (2014-2018). Post-doctoral researcher at University of Vienna Previous Autism Research Coordinator (2013-2014). Co-founder of Auticonsult (France) |
Friends, alumni and collaborators
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