Brontë Mckeown
PhD Student

Profile

Biography

• MSci, Cognitive Neuroscience, University of York, UK, 2015-2019
• Research Assistant, Mind-wandering lab, University of York, UK, 2018

Departmental roles

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

Research

Overview

Investigating dynamic changes in physiology, ongoing thoughts, and neural patterns during emotional states using naturalistic stimuli.

Projects

We are investigating how ongoing thought patterns and neural responses change during threatening situations using naturalistic stimuli such as movies and virtual reality. Moreover, we hope to investigate the role of uncertainty and its effects on cognition and physiology during threatening situations.

Research group(s)

I work in the mind-wandering lab led by Prof. Jonny Smallwood and the LifeLike lab led by Dr. Cade McCall.

Grants

• Departmental Studentship
• 2019 Departmental MSci Undergraduate Prize

Collaborators

• Dr Cade McCall
• Professor Jonny Smallwood

Teaching

Publications