Prof Isabelle Mareschal

Isabelle Mareschal

Professor of Visual Cognition

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Queen Mary University of London
www.qmul.ac.uk/sbbs/staff/isabellemareschal.html
Centre for Brain and Behaviour
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Research

emotion, vision, social interaction, adversity, global health

Interests

In my lab research falls into three streams. Firstly, we examine how controlled measurements of visual perception (psychophysics) can be extended to realistic stimuli and situations. This research investigates how humans detect simple or basic visual features (such as edges) as well as more complex image categories and how factors such as attention can modulate perception. We use a combination of behavioural, psychophysical and eye tracking tools.

A second research stream addresses basic issues of social neuroscience and person perception. We investigate how precise people are at making judgments about other people, such as judging their direction of attention, or their facial expressions. This work is carried out in both healthy adult populations and in clinical populations and/or populations who have experienced adversity.

The third and newer stream investigates the relationship between mental health, cognition and exposure to adversity (war or environmental)