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About the lab

The Affective and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab investigates cognition and emotion, particularly emotional information processing and its effects on cognitive processes, including: 

  • attention 
  • cognitive performance
  • interpretation 
  • memory 
  • reasoning. 

Our lab uses a wide variety of cognitive and neuroscientific methods, including:

  • behavioural reaction times 
  • eye-tracking 
  • electro-physiological methods: electroencephalogram (EEG), event-related potentials (ERP), psycho-physiological methods (eg skin conductance and heart rate variability)
  • functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). 

Contact us 

  • Directors

    • Professor Anne Richards 
    • Professor Naz Derakhshan 

  • RESEARCHERS

    • Postdoctoral Researchers
      • Dr Emily Hannon (Postdoc with Anne Richards, 2008) 
      • Dr Leor Shoker (Postdoc with Naz Derakhshan, 2006-2009; consulting Postdoc from 2009) 
    • Research Assistants
      • Irma Triasih Kurniawan 
      • Emily Bethell