Education
Selected Honors and Fellowships
- 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
- 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
- Topics
- Research Methods
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
- 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.