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I am a postdoctoral research fellow working on a Wellcome Trust funded grant, based at the Behavioural Brain Sciences Centre of the University of Birmingham.
My research examines how the brain learns to perform and control movements. I use a combination of neuroscientific techniques, computational modelling and behavioural measurements to examine two key research topics:
How do different parts of the brain contribute to motor learning?
Humans learn to improve their movements in a variety of ways, including learning from errors and learning through repetition. Unfortunately, we still know relatively little about how different areas of the brain contribute to these processes.
My research examines how different brain structures contribute to motor learning. In particular, my recent work has focussed on the role that the cerebellum (shown in red on the figure to the left) plays in learning from movement errors.
How does observing other people's actions affect the motor system?
Observing another person's actions activates brain areas involved in movement planning and execution, including areas of the premotor cortex (shown in blue on the figure to the left) and parietal cortex (shown in yellow).
Observing the actions of others provides a template on which we can base our own movements. My research examines how changing the manner in which we observe actions can change the effects of action observation.