Graduate Student, Psychology
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Nalini Ambady
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About
My research focuses on the cognitive and neural basis of person perception, including the mechanisms through which the brain extracts information from facial, vocal, and bodily cues. In particular, I am interested in how perceptions of other people evolve and stabilize in real time; how they are influenced by multiple sensory cues; and how visual processing interacts with high-level social cognition and prior social and cultural knowledge to shape the basic ways we see and understand other people. I take an integrative and multi-level approach in examining these phenomena, incorporating insights across social psychology and the cognitive, vision, and neural sciences. My studies make use of a wide range of methodologies, including neuroimaging, event-related brain potentials, real-time behavioral techniques such as computer mouse-tracking, and computational modeling.
Contact Information
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| Address: | Tufts University |
