About Me

Hey, I’m Benjy!

I am a Cognitive Neuroscience PhD student in the MetaLab at the Wellcome Center for Human Neuroimaging, UCL. My research spans all things consciousness, perception, and numerical and social cognition.

What I’ve been up to

[!] I am looking for a post-doc to start in Autumn 2024. Please get in touch if you’d be interested in collaborating!

I’m currently in the final year of my PhD, where I’ve been working with Steve Fleming and Nadine Dijkstra at UCL. My research has developed into two broad streams:
1 exploring how neural magnitude codes may be shared between cognitive domains, and how they might interface with neural correlates of consciousness
2 adapting social cognition paradigms for use in naturalistic experiments, using brand new wearable OP-MEG technologies.

Before my PhD, I worked as an RA with Jon Freeman at NYU, where I used fMRI to explore how visual awareness facilitates the top-down influence of stereotypes on face perception. Before that, I completed my MSc at the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, where, supervised by Keisuke Suzuki, I combined psychophysical experiments with virtual reality models of hallucinations.