Professor Cecilia Heyes
BSc, MA, PhD, FBA
Senior Research Fellow since 2008
Professor of Psychology, University of Oxford since 2009
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Background
- Professor of Psychology, University College London (from 1989 to 2008)
- Research Fellow, Trinity Hall, Cambridge (from 1986 to 1989)
- Harkness Fellow (from 1984 to 1986)
- Undergraduate and Postgraduate, University College London (from 1978 to 1984)
Research interests
- Evolution of cognition
- Social cognition
- Imitation
Selected publications
- Through the looking glass: counter-mirror activation following incompatible sensorimotor learning. Featured article in European Journal of Neuroscience, 28(6), 1208-15 (2008, with Catmur, C., Gillmeister, H., Bird, G., Liepelt, R., and Brass, M.)
- Sensorimotor experience enhances automatic imitation of robotic actions. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: B, 274, 2509-14 (2007, with Press, C. and Gillmeister, H.)
- Sensorimotor learning configures the human mirror system. Current Biology, 17, 1527-31 (2007, with Catmur, C. and Walsh, V.)
- Imitation: Is cognitive neuroscience solving the correspondence problem? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 489-95 (2005, with Brass, M)
- Four routes of cognitive evolution. Psychological Review, 110, 713-727 (2003)
- Publications
Teaching and supervision
- Postgraduate research methods in psychology and cognitive neuroscience
Other professional memberships and roles
- Honorary Professor, University College London (from 2008)
- Chichele Lecturer and Visiting Fellow, All Souls College (2006)
- British Psychological Society Cognitive Section Prize (2004)
- UCL Faculty of Life Sciences Teaching Award (2002)
- Member, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London (from 1996)
Research awards and grants
- Executive Member, ESRC Research Centre for ‘Economic Learning and Social Evolution’ (ELSE), University College London (from 2005 to 2010)
- EPSRC-funded project on ‘Dynamic Faces’, University College London (from 2008 to 2011)