CV and Biography

Biography

I was trained as an experimental psychologist at University College London (UCL, 1978-84). As a Harkness Fellow in the United States (1984-6), I studied evolutionary epistemology with Donald T Campbell and philosophy of mind with Daniel Dennett. I spent a second postdoctoral period studying associative learning as a Research Fellow of Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge (1986-9), and then returned to UCL as a member of faculty in 1988. The next 20 years were focussed on experimental work, initially in animal cognition and later in cognitive neuroscience. In the later years (2000-2008) my group developed and tested an associative account of the origins of imitation and the mirror neuron system. In 2008 I left UCL to become a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford. Here I am concentrating on theoretical work while collaborating in experimental projects in Oxford and elsewhere.

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