Frances Knight
I became part of the InfantLab team in October 2010 after completing an MSc in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience at Goldsmiths. During my Masters course I completed an EEG study looking at the brain activity during a visual attention task in children with Developmental Coordination Disorder.
Research interests
At present I am running the ‘Hand or Arm?’ study, exploring at what age children begin to categorize their own body into parts. Specifically, I am interested in researching the difference in body representations that is evoked by the various senses, such as vision and touch. I aim to go on to research the brain activity that accompanies the categorical representation of the body in children.
I am also running a study looking at biases in the way we represent body parts in adults. It has been shown that there are asymmetries in the way we mentally perceive the size and shape of the hand; we perceive it to be wider than it is long. It is hypothesized that this is due to the receptive fields of single neurons in the brain. I aim to see whether these asymmetries vary between body parts.