About me

We never see the world exactly as it is. The information we receive through our senses is always combined with what we expect, which means that our expectations are constantly biasing our perception. I'm researching how our perception is influenced by our expectations when something unexpected happens, because these are often good opportunities for us to learn something new. I'm also researching how this process might be different in autistic people, because there is an exciting new theory that autistic people may perceive the world slightly differently than non-autistic people.

I am a postdoctoral researcher at UCL in London, and I explore these questions using EEG, eye-tracking, and behavioural tasks. My current project is using an online behavioural experiment to understand how well observers perceive visual information that is either expected or unexpected, based on what they have previously seen.

I code my stimuli in Psychtoolbox and jsPsych and my analyses in Matlab, FieldTrip and R.