BIO
I am currently a lecturer in Developmental and Comparative Psychology at the University of Portsmouth.
I completed my PhD under the supervision of Profs. Ian Apperly & Sotaro Kita at the University of Birmingham in 2013, where I looked at development of task co-representations in pre-school children.
In 2013 I then moved to the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary to work as a postdoc with Prof. Natalie Sebanz, investigating imitation of coordinated actions, "we-representations" and group cognition.
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In 2016 I transferred to the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, where I worked as a postdoc with Malinda Carpenter, Josep Call and Michael Tomasello on task co-representation in toddlers and great apes.
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My current work focuses on social coordination and self-other interference in several domains, including coordination and representation of actions, tasks, perspectives, emotions and attention.
EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Joint Action
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How do human children develop the ability to coordinate with others?
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Why are some people better at social coordination than others?
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How do our social coordination skills differ from those of other species?
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How do mechanisms for social coordination cause interference?
2011 - 2014
University of Birmingham, UK
PhD
Theory of Mind
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What are the differences between implicit and explicit Theory of Mind tasks?
Executive Functions
2013-2016
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Postdoc
2016-2017
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Postdoc
2018-present
University of Portsmouth, UK
Lecturer
Joint Attention
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What cognitive abilities are required to achieve joint attention?
Imitation
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Are the same mechanisms used for inhibition of one versus many people?