James C Thompson

James C Thompson is a Professor of Psychology at George Mason University, directing the Perception & Action Neuroscience Group. His research investigates neural mechanisms of human movement perception using fMRI and EEG, with applications in surveillance and developmental disorders.

Research spans biological motion processing, social cognition, and adolescent neurodevelopment. Key themes include emotion regulation, substance use predictors, and neural representations of social identity. Publications demonstrate a consistent focus on striatal activation patterns and sex differences in reward processing.

Advises doctoral students on topics ranging from social decision-making to neurocognitive modeling. Supervised dissertations include work on gait synchronization and identity representation.