Ben Wilson

PhD Student

Primary Supervisor: Chris Petkov
Research group: Laboratory of Comparative Neuroscience

Introduction and area of work:

Investigating the evolutionary and neural basis of communication: Neuroimaging of syntactic processing

My primary research interest involves investigating how the brain processes aspects of communication. I am particularly interested in how the individual elements of complex sentences can be accurately sequenced and understood as they were intended: how does the brain process syntactic rules?

My PhD involves using Artificial Grammar Learning paradigms to investigate how syntactic rules are learned and to explore the network of brain areas involved in this process.

Additional roles:

Postgraduate demonstrator for the School of Psychology for research methods and statistics

Qualifications:

- MSc in Evolutionary Psychology, University of Liverpool (2008)
- Bsc in Psychology, University of York (2005)

Techniques:

-fMRI
-Eye tracking