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Rachel Bennetts
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Researcher on face perception and prosopagnosia at Brunel University of London.
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1/ 🌟📢 Applications for our MSc in Psychology, Culture & Evolution at @brunelpsy.bsky.social @brunelgradschool.bsky.social are OPEN for 2025/26 🎓 📢

Ever wondered how culture 🌍 and evolution 🧬 shape human behaviour? 🤔 This interdisciplinary program might be for you 🧵
Psychology, Culture and Evolution MSc | Brunel University of London
A research-intensive psychology master's course, allowing you to understand how culture and evolution can influence human behaviour.
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March 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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It's that time of year again! If you have 10-15 mins to spare, please consider helping my dissertation student by completing a quick survey. We are looking at how experience of taste imagery differs between people (more details in flyer!). brunellifesc.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
A link to a survey on taste imagery A flyer for our taste imagery survey. Text: Would you like to contribute to the study investigating individual differences in mental imagery of taste? I would really appreciate it if you could spare around 10-12 minutes to participate in research that will help us understand how people’s experiences of taste imagery differ (i.e., imagining/experiencing taste when you see images of food) To take part, you must: • Be over 18 years of age or older. • Be fluent in English • You should not have any diagnosed conditions that might affect sensory processing (e.g. Anosmia or severe taste disorders). To take part, click this link: https://brunellifesc.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_292nJEz7wnD5M7s You are free to withdraw from the study at any time while completing the survey. Please note that once the survey is completed, you cannot withdraw your data since it is stored anonymously and cannot be identified. Your data will be kept confidential and anonymised for analysis and the final report. This study is being conducted as part of requirements for the BSc in Psychology at Brunel University London and has been approved by the College of Health and life sciences (Reference number: 49733-MA-Sep/2024- 52918-1; Project dates: 1st October – 31st August 2025 For any questions, please feel free to contact any of the researchers: Imesha Manickrama: 2155075@brunel.ac.uk Thank you in advance for your time and support!
March 4, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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📢 Doctoral researcher from Brunel Psychology Snehal Pandya presented at the Alzheimer's Research UK Conference recently #ARUKConf25! 🧠✨

🎤 Snehal delivered a great talk on "Investigating Associations between Polygenic Risk Scores for Alzheimer’s Disease and Structural Brain Changes".
March 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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🏆👏 This outstanding work was recognized with the De Laszlo Prize for Early Career Researchers!!! 🏆👏

🎤 This research is supervised by Prof Annalena Venneri & Dr. Matteo De Marco at the Centre for Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience @ Brunel Uni

#AlzheimersResearch #CognitiveNeuroscience
March 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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🚨New paper!🚨
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A Taxometric Analysis of Developmental Prosopagnosia: Evidence for a Categorically Distinct Impairment.
We analysed two large datasets, and found that prosopagnosia (face-blindness) is a distinct condition, not the tail end of the distribution. #faceblindness
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November 28, 2024 at 3:56 PM