About
Professor Martin Eimer is a Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London, leading the Brain and Behaviour Lab within the School of Psychological Sciences. His research focuses on cognitive and neural mechanisms of perception, attention, and sensorimotor processes, with particular expertise in selective attention and face perception using ERP techniques. He holds prestigious awards including the British Academy Fellowship (2016) and Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2005).
- Education: Not explicitly stated in provided texts, but his academic positions imply advanced training in Psychology/Neuroscience.
Research Interests: His lab investigates how attention mechanisms govern visual and tactile processing, including crossmodal links, emotion effects, and deficits in prosopagnosia. Recent work emphasizes template-based attentional control and distractor suppression in visual search tasks.
Publications: Over 150+ peer-reviewed articles, with recent focus on visual search efficiency, attentional templates, and ERP markers for cognitive processes. Key themes include category-based attentional guidance, anxiety-related biases, and neural underpinnings of face recognition.
- Awards:
- Fellow of the British Academy (2016)
- Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2005)
Lab & Collaborations: The Brain and Behaviour Lab collaborates internationally, employing EEG and behavioral methods. Current projects explore attentional suppression mechanisms and template dynamics in visual search. Volunteers are actively recruited for experiments involving EEG recordings.
