I am a lecturer in cognitive neuroscience education with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience at King’s College London. I completed my undergraduate degree in Basic Medical Sciences and Doctorate in Physiology and Behavioural Neuroscience at Queen’s University in Canada. From there, I moved to the US for my post-doctoral training at the National Institute of Mental Health (National Institutes of Health). In 2011, I moved to the United Kingdom to join the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (Cambridge) but was based within Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford. I joined King’s College London in 2021 and currently teach on the BSc Neuroscience and Psychology programme. My research activities have spanned the range from characterising cross-model sensory interactions in the midbrain to correlating behavioural parameters of perceptual decision-making with neuronal responses along the ventral visual pathway. Currently, I am interested in combining my interests in neuroscience with pedagogical practices.

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Key publications:

• Ainsworth et al., 2021. Viewing Ambiguous Social Interactions Increases Functional Connectivity between Frontal and Temporal Nodes of the Social Brain. The Journal of Neuroscience. 
• Bridge et al., 2019. Preserved extrastriate visual network in a monkey with substantial, naturally occurring damage to primary visual cortex. eLife.
• Ainsworth et al., 2018. Functional reorganisation and recovery following cortical lesions: A preliminary study in macaque monkeys. Neuropsychologia.
• Bell et al., 2016. Encoding of Stimulus Probability in Macaque Inferior Temporal Cortex. Current Biology. 
• Bell et al., 2018. Methods matter: A primer on permanent and reversible interference techniques in animals for investigators of human neuropsychology. Neuropsychologia. 

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