Dr Jodie Davies-Thompson

Dr Jodie Davies-Thompson

Lecturer in Psychology, Psychology
Office - 825 (8)
Eighth Floor
Vivian Building
Singleton Campus
Available For Postgraduate Supervision

About

I have a general interest in all aspects of vision and neural plasticity. However, I am particularly interested in the effects that brain injury or congenital dysfunctions have on visual processing and brain organisation. My three main areas of interest are: 1) face recognition, multisensory integration of faces and voices, and the neural correlates of these processes; 2) rehabilitation of prosopagnosia – specifically, ways in which perceptual learning can be applied to improve face recognition abilities in prosopagnosia (face-blindness), as well as the structural and functional changes that occur as a result of these behavioural improvements; 3) cross-modal plasticity (vision, touch, sound) in the blind and d/Deaf. I use a range of techniques, including behavioural and psychophysical studies, fMRI, fMR-adaptation, multi-voxel pattern analysis (MVPA), dynamic causal modeling (DCM), psycho-physiological interactions (PPI), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), and volumetric brain morphometry (VBM). Always happy to hear from students or postdocs who are interested in working in these areas.

Click here to visit the Face Research Swansea (FaReS) website

Personal website: http://www.jodiedaviesthompson.com/

Areas Of Expertise

  • Face recognition
  • Face processing
  • Prosopagnosia
  • FfMRI
  • Visual plasticity
  • Deafness
  • Blindness

Career Highlights

Research

(FaReS)

Face Research Swansea