The Group

Dr. Chris Petkov, Group Leader;
Background
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Catherine Perrodin, PhD Student
Working at the Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Project: Visual Face Influences on Voice Selective Neurons
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Ben Wilson, PhD Student
Project: Neuroimaging of Evolutionary Precursors to Human Communication E-mail Ben

Dr. Yukiko Kikuchi, Research Associate
Project: Wellcome Trust Funded Project
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Adam Attaheri, PhD Student
Project: MRC/Faculty Studentship
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Emma Salo, Helsinki PhD Student (T. Rinne, Main Supervisor)
Project: MASK
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Heather Slater, Research Assistant
Project: Animal Welfare Projects
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Alice Milne, Research Assistant
Project: Aphasia Project
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Current Project Students

Victoria Cooper, 2011-12 UGrad Psychology Project

Helen LeSueur, 2011-12 UGrad Psychology Project

Ross Muers, 2011 MSci Project Student

Sarah Lloyd, 2011 UGrad Project Student

Active Collaborations

Network Connectivity - Mark Augath & Nikos Logothetis (Max Planck Institute, Germany) and Yuki Kikuchi, Josef Rauschecker (Georgetown University, USA) and Mortimer Mishkin (NIMH, USA)

Comparative Neuroimaging of Voice Regions - Pascal Belin (Glasgow University)

Neuroimaging of Vocal Components: What's special about a voice? - Asif Ghazanfar (Princeton University, USA) & Roy Patterson (Cambridge, UK)

Neuroimaging of Temporal and Spectral Analysis in Auditory Cortex - Simon Baumann, Tim Griffiths, Adrian Rees, Alex Thiele, Li Sun and Dave Hunter (Newcastle University)

Human Multisensory Processing - Quoc Vuong (Newcastle University)

Newcastle - Finland: - with Teemu Rinne, Emma Salo & Heather Slater @brain website

Previous Group Members/Students

Matthew Collinson, 2009 UGrad Project; 2010 MRes Project Student

Jessica Tarn, 2010 MSci Project Student

Hannah Bassirat, 2011 MSci Project Student

Renate Van Osten, 2011 UGrad Project Student

Alexander Ward, 2011 UGrad Project Student

Claire Schofield, 2010 WT MSci Project Student

Leonie Cunnington, 2009 WT MSci Project Student

Lena Veit, 2008 MSci Student Max Planck

Subhojit Chakladar, 2007 MSci Student Max Planck

Yuriria Vasquez, 2007 MSci Student Max Planck