Research clusters
Cognition & Culture
The Cognition and Culture cluster investigates the impact of culture and language on visual perception and attention, categorisation behaviour and the development of cognition. The cognitive neuroscience of music is an active area within this cluster too. This cluster lies at the heart of Goldsmiths’ Centre for Cognition, Computation and Culture which aims to foster interdisciplinary research with other academic departments, focusing on how neural, computational and cognitive models relate to cultural and social processes.
Research groups falling within this research cluster can be found at:
Members
Joydeep Bhattacharya: Neuro-signal processing: EEG/MEG, Oscillations and Synchrony, Nonlinear Dynamics and chaos, Time series analysis. Cognitive Processing: Multisensory interaction, Problem solving, Insight, Music perception, Neuro-aesthetics and Creativity.
Jules Davidoff: Cognitive neuropsychology and cognitive psychology: object and face perception, object-knowledge and its relationship to object and action naming. All aspects of colour processing.
Jan de Fockert: Visual selective attention, in particular the role of control functions of the frontal cortex in distractor processing. Functional neuroimaging of selective attention.
John Gruzelier: EEG neurofeedback, particularly in relation to creativity and the performing arts; schizophrenia and personality disorders; hypnosis.
Pam Heaton: Musical cognition in individuals with developmental disorders. Absolute pitch ability. Autism and the savant syndrome.
Karina Linnell: Visual attention and perception, visual attention and action, visual attention and memory, and the role of visual objects. Visual perception, especially grouping and object constancies. Neuropsychological studies of attention and perception. Brain imaging of attention.
Alan Pickering: Memory; neuropsychology; attention; amnesia; frontal lobe functions; personality and personality disorder; schizophrenia; psychological statistics; psychopharmacology; neural networks; learning.
Lauren Stewart: Neuro-cognitive aspects of musical behaviour including musical learning, the generation of musical expectancies and disorders of musical listening.