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Dr. Robin Ince is a Senior Research Scientist at the University of Glasgow's School of Psychology & Neuroscience. His work focuses on developing statistical methods for analyzing neuroimaging and electrophysiological data, particularly applying information theory to understand neural representations and interactions. He explores how information from different modalities (e.g., behavior, neuroimaging signals) redundantly or synergistically encode stimuli, contributing to frameworks like the Stimulus Information Representation (SIR). His research also emphasizes within-participant statistical analyses to move beyond population-level averages in cognitive science.
- Affiliations: School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of Glasgow
- Grants:
- State of the art MEG-TRIUX-neo (Wellcome Trust, 2020–2025)
- Beyond Pairwise Connectivity (Wellcome Trust, 2019–2021)
- Research Themes: Information theory in neuroscience, neural encoding, multi-modal data fusion, decision-making processes, cultural aspects of facial expression perception.
His recent work highlights dynamic facial movement processing for emotion categorization, synergistic cortical interactions in prediction errors, and cultural variability in facial beauty perception. He collaborates on projects like culturally valid facial expression modeling for virtual agents and cross-modal sensory integration mechanisms.
Dr. Ince supervises postgraduate students (e.g., Gina Brunner, Li Cheng) and has contributed to open-source tools like Frites and Tensorpac for neuroimaging analysis. His findings bridge theoretical frameworks with applied insights into human cognition and neural computation.
