Alexander Anwyl-Irvine


University position

PhD student
Supervised by Dr Duncan Astle

Alexander Anwyl-Irvine is pleased to consider applications from prospective PhD students.

Departments

Clinical School

Institutes

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

Email

alexander.irvine@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk

Home page

http://www.irvine.science (personal home page)

Research Themes

Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience

Developmental Neuroscience

The Cambridge Neuroscience Community

Interests

Alex Anwyl-Irvine's research focuses on modelling and predicting the cognitive and neurological development of typical and atypical children, particularly in relation to social and environmental moderators -- for example, socioeconomic status.

Alex is also a developer at Gorilla.sc, an online experiment builder. This strand of his work focuses on how to collect and analyse big data from the web, and how to ensure good data quality.

Research Focus

Keywords

Online Data

Cognitive Development

Neuroimaging

Big Data

MEG

Clinical conditions

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Childhood disorders

Dyslexia

Equipment

Behavioural analysis

Computational modelling

Electroencephalography (EEG)

Electrophysiological recording techniques

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Magnetoencephalography (MEG)

Neuropsychological testing

Collaborators

Cambridge

Giacomo Bignardi

Edwin Dalmaijer

Roma Siugzdaite

Tess Smith

Stepheni Uh

Associated News Items


Key publications

Anwyl-Irvine AL, Massonnié J, Flitton A, Kirkham N, Evershed JK (2019), “Gorilla in our midst: An online behavioral experiment builder” Behavioral Researh Methods

Publications

2016

Clarke ADF, Mahon A, Irvine A, Hunt AR (2016), “People are unable to recognize or report on their own eye movements” Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology