Dominic McLean

Dominic McLean is a Lecturer in Psychology at the School of Psychology, University of East Anglia. He specializes in visual cognition, focusing on how expectations influence scene understanding and unconscious bias in face recognition, particularly in eyewitness identification contexts.

Education

• MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience, University of East Anglia
• PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience, University of East Anglia

Research Interests

• Scene processing and top-down information integration
• Face recognition abilities and cross-ethnicity crime identification
• Relationship between perceived status and gaze behavior

Methodological Expertise

• Behavioral experiments
• EEG (electroencephalography)
• Eye tracking techniques

His recent publication in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General explores expectation-based gist facilitation in rapid scene understanding. He administers SONA, the university's research participant recruitment portal, and previously worked as an Assistant Psychologist in the NHS Wellbeing Service.

Lab Affiliation

• Cognition, Action and Perception research group