Dan Rogers
3rd Year PhD Student (Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging)

Profile

Biography

• MSci Experimental, Cognitive & Social Psychology, University of York 2014-2018
• MSc Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, University of York 2018-2019
• Ma Social Research (1+3 White Rose ESRC DTP), University of York 2019-2020
• Research Assistant, Unilever, 2017-2018
• Research Assistant, University of York, 2019-2020

Career

• 1+3 PhD in Neuroscience and Neuroimaging within the Psychology Department at The University of York.

Departmental roles

• Undergraduate Course Rep: 2014-2017
• Postgraduate Course Rep: 2017-2020
• Postgraduate Research Student Course Rep: 2020-Present
• ECR Activities Officer
• ECR Outreach Coordinator
• GTA Marking and Teaching Mentor

University roles

• Welfare College Tutor- 2018-2021

Research

Overview

The role of shape and texture in the neural representation of faces

Projects

My PhD aims to explore the lower level visual properties that underlie the perception and recognition of faces.

My first project compared the roles of shape and surface texture in the recognition of face identity. I used familiar and unfamiliar hybrid faces across three experimental paradigms: Free recall recognition (N=53); Face naming (N=110) and FMR-Adaptation (N=20).

My second project explored the perceptual and neural representations of symmetrical viewpoints of the face and how canonical and non-canonical viewpoints impacted these representations (N = 65)

My current projects use a combined computational and behavioural approach to determine the critical image dimensions for face recognition. Our findings currently suggest that there is an intermediate band of image dimensions in faces that is critical for the recognition of identity in humans and computer models of face recognition.

Research group(s)

• Face Lab Group York

Grants

• PhD Scholarship ESRC White Rose (1+3)
• Advanced Quantitative Methods (AQM) Award

Collaborators

• Tim Andrews (Supervisor)
• Mila Mileva (University of Plymouth)

Teaching

Undergraduate

• GTA: Brain and Behaviour; Research Methods; Perception and Cognition.

Postgraduate

• GTA demonstrator for Data Analysis in Neuroimaging

Other teaching

• GTA Marking and Teaching Mentor

Publications

Selected publications

Rogers, D., Baseler, H., Young, A. W., Jenkins, R., & Andrews, T. J. (2022). The roles of shape and texture in the recognition of familiar faces. Vision Research, 194, 108013.

Rogers, D., & Andrews, T. J. (2022). The emergence of view-symmetric neural responses to familiar and unfamiliar faces. Neuropsychologia, 108275.

External activities

Overview

• British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience (BACN) 2022- Poster
• Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) UCL Meeting 2023- Talk

Memberships

• Postgraduate Member of the British Psychological Society