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Helen Rodger is a Postdoc Researcher in the Department of Psychology at the University of Fribourg, affiliated with the Faculty of Humanities. Her research focuses on the development of social cognition, particularly how individuals understand others' emotions and thoughts through facial expressions. She employs methodologies like eye-tracking and behavioral studies to investigate developmental and cross-cultural aspects of emotion recognition.
Her work examines facial expression recognition across populations including deaf signers, children, and individuals with eating disorders. Key themes include visual information processing strategies, cultural influences on perception, and developmental trajectories of emotional understanding.
Rodger's publications span developmental psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and cultural psychology, with a focus on methodologies linking behavior, perception, and neural mechanisms. She collaborates with international teams and has presented at conferences such as the International Society for Research on Emotion and the European Conference on Developmental Psychology.
Her research highlights the interplay between early childhood development, cultural contexts, and neurobiological foundations of social cognition. Ongoing projects explore age-related changes in facial expression decoding and implications for clinical populations like those with eating disorders.
