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Brad Duchaine is a Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College. His research focuses on the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying social perception, particularly prosopagnosia (face blindness) and prosopometamorphopsia (face perception distortions). He directs the Social Perception Lab and Prosopagnosia Research Center, utilizing neuropsychology, psychophysics, and neuroimaging techniques.
Education: B.A. in Psychology from Marquette University (1994), Ph.D. in Psychological and Brain Sciences from UC Santa Barbara (2001).
Research emphasizes face perception disorders, developmental neurocognitive deficits, and genetic influences on cognitive abilities. His work bridges clinical neuropsychology with basic neuroscience, exploring neural substrates of visual recognition. Current grants include NSF-funded studies on eye movements in developmental prosopagnosia and NIH research expanding understanding of the condition beyond facial recognition deficits.
Key contributions include demonstrating the heritability of face recognition skills and refining models of face-processing neural networks. His lab collaborates internationally, advancing diagnostic tools and interventions for perceptual disorders.
