Biographical Profile

College

College of Arts and Sciences

Department

Psychology

International Activity

International Activities

Yes

Type of Activity

Research, Teaching

Countries

Netherlands, Portugal, Italy

Description

I am engaged in research collaborations with researchers in the Netherlands, Portugal and Italy. These collaborations involve the study of neurocognitive mechanisms supporting human-human cooperation, and the application of these findings to human-robot and robot-robot interaction as well as socially impaired populations (i.e., Autism)

Institutional Focus Areas

Behavioral Sciences, Social Sciences, Science and Engineering (Other), Computational Sciences

Extended Residence in Foreign Country

Yes (The Netherlands)

Speaks Non-English Language

Yes (Dutch (conversational))

Interest Background

Do you include students in your research?

Undergraduates and Graduates

Interest Keywords

Cognitive neuroscience, motor learning, motor skill acquisition, language learning, social psychology, teamwork, social robotics, stroke recovery, brain plasticity, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), brain plasticity.

Institutional Focus Areas

Behavioral Sciences, Social Sciences, Science and Engineering (Other), Computational Sciences

Personal Focus Areas

My personal focus areas include the behavioral and neural signatures of (i) recovery following, cerebral insult,(ii) social interaction, (iii) motor learning, (iv) language acquisition. I, primarily use behavioral techniques and neural measures to study these topics.