Gabriela Raleva
PhD Student

Profile

Biography

• BSc Psychology, University of Sheffield, UK, 2015 – 2018
• MA Social Research, University of York, UK, 2018 - 2019
• PhD Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, University of York, UK, 2019 – present

Career

• Research assistant at The University of Sheffield, Department of Psychology (2017-2018) with Dr. Tom Stafford and Dr. Martin Thirkettle

Research

Overview

Understanding how visual information is represented in the ventral visual brain

Projects

My research explores the relative contributions of categorial and low-level visual information to the activity of the ventral visual stream. I am also interested in the neural correlates of the deficits in face perception observed in people with developmental prosopagnosia and the extent to which they ca be explained by low-level features. To address these questions, I will be using a combination of neuroimaging and behavioural methods.

Research group(s)

• Face/Place lab

Grants

• ESRC Advanced Quantitative Methods Studentship (2019-2022)

Collaborators

• Professor Tim Andrews (PhD Supervisor)
• Dr. Richard Cook (collaborator)

Teaching

Undergraduate

1. Research Methods in Psychology II
2. Brain & Behaviour II