Antonia Hamilton's lab for Social Cognition
People
Dr Antonia Hamilton
Dr Hamilton is a Professor in Social Neuroscience and leader of the Social Neuroscience group at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (UCL). She completed a PhD on the impact of neuronal noise for the optimal control of human arm movements (UCL), and postdoctoral work on imitation in autism and brain systems for action understanding. She was awarded the Experimental Psychology Society prize lectureship for 2013 and a Lundbeck Visting Professorship at the University of Copenhagen in 2021. She is currently Editor in Chief of the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Her current research interests include how and why people imitate each other, how social skills differ in autism, and the neural mechanisms of face to face social interaction.
Lab members
Dwaynica Greaves is a PhD student studying theatre and the sense of self
Sara de Felice is a PhD student studying fNIRS hyperscanning
Isla Jones is a PhD student studying audience effects
Paula Wicher is a PhD student studying mimicry
Alumni
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Maria Bell Thomas Gilbert Sujatha Krishnan-Barman Patrick Falk Roser Canigueral Paola Pinti Carina de Klerk Paul Forbes Harry Farmer Alexandra Georgescu Indu Dubey Jo Hale Dom Oliver |
Sylvia Xueni Pan Lauren Marsh Tian Ye Nadine Aburumman Jamie A Ward Amy Pearson Lorcan Kenny Bruce Yin Wang Richard Ramsey Emily Cross Mirko Uljarevic Imogen BoSmith |
Collaborators
- Dr Jamie A Ward Goldsmiths Computing
- Dr Ilias Tachtsidis UCL Biomedical Engineering
- Dr Marco Gillies Goldsmiths Computing
- Prof Uta Frith ICN UCL
- Prof Paul Burgess ICN UCL
- Prof Joy Hirsch Yale
- Dr Elisabeth Hill Goldsmiths
- Dr Emily Cross Zurich
- Dr Victoria Southgate Copenhagen
- Dr Anna Ciaunica Lisbon
- Dr Francys Subiaul George Washington University, USA
- Dr Danielle Ropar Nottingham
- Dr Maddie Groom Nottingham
- Dr Massimiliano Conson University Secondi di Napoli
Photos
Lab board games, winter 2021
Lab picnic, summer of 2018
Lab retreat, summer of 2018
Lab bbq, summer of 2016
Lab dinner, summer of 2012
Lab dinner, winter of 2009
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR a.hamilton - at - ucl.ac.uk