Emily S. Cross

Wales Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience
School of Psychology
Bangor University

Behavioural Science Institute
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and
Behaviour

e.cross(at)bangor.ac.uk

Education

Ph.D. Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA, Cognitive Neuroscience, February 2008, no corrections
M.Sc. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, Cognitive Psychology, May 2006, with distinction
Vordiplom. Pomona College, Claremont, USA, Psychology and Dance, May 2001, cum laude

Academic Appointments

since 07/2011. Lecturer, Bangor University, Wales, United Kingdom
since 07/2010. Assistant Professor, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
2008 – 2010. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MPI for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
2008. Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Lab of Social Cognition, University of Nottingham, UK
2007. Visiting Research Fellow, Lab of Action, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
2004 - 2007. Teaching Fellow, Ethics Institute at Dartmouth, NH, USA

Expertise

Topics

My research focuses on the relationship between action perception and performance. I study how experience and expertise shape action knowledge, and similarities and differences between observational and physical learning.

Research Methods

I use a number of brain science methods in a coordinated manner, including functional neuroimaging (fMRI), neurostimulation (TMS), as well as behavioural measures.

Selected Honors and Fellowships

2009 – 2011. Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
2009. European Science Foundation Short Term Scientific Mission Grant to University of Nottingham
2008 - 2010. Recipient of several travel and summer school grants (e.g., Brain travel grant, Cargese III Summer School on Consciousness, Exp Psych Society Grindley Grant)
2008. MPI International Postdoctoral Academic Fellowship AAAS Program for Excellence in Science Award
2007. Fellow, Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience
2006 - 2008. Predoctoral National Research Service Award by the NIH – National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke
2002 - 2003. Fulbright Fellowship to perform cognitive neuroscience research at the Univ. of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Selected Publications

Cross, E. S., & Ticini, L. F. (in press). New horizons in neuroaesthetics. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.
Cross, E. S., Mackie, E. C., Wolford, G., & Hamilton, A. F. (2010). Contorted and ordinary static body postures in the human brain. Experimental Brain Research, 204, 397-407.
Cross, E. S., Hamilton, A. F. de C., Kraemer, D. J. M., Kelley, W. M., & Grafton, S. T. (2009). Dissociable substrates for body motion and physical experience in the human action observation network. European Journal of Neuroscience, 30, 1383-1392.
Cross, E. S., Kraemer, D., Hamilton, A., Kelley, W. M., & Grafton, S. T. (2009). Sensitivity of the action observation network to physical and observational learning. Cerebral Cortex, 19, 315-326.
Cross, E. S., Schmitt, P. S., & Grafton, S. T. (2007). Neural substrates of contextual interference during motor learning support a model of active preparation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 1854-1871.
Cross, E. S., Hamilton, A. F. de C., & Grafton, S. T. (2006). Building a motor simulation de novo: Obs. of dance by dancers. NeuroImage, 31, 1257-1267.
Cross, E. S., & Burke, D. M. (2004). Do alternative names impair proper name retrieval? Brain and Language, 89, 174-181.

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