Brónagh McCoy PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Biography
Brónagh received her PhD in cognitive neuroscience and experimental psychology from the VU Amsterdam, after completing a research MSc in cognitive neuroscience at Radboud University Nijmegen. Following a postdoctoral position at the University of Cambridge, Brónagh joined the Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences at King’s College London in September 2024. Her research has focused on attention and learning in healthy adults, Parkinson's disease, autism, and anxiety.
She is currently investigating the impact of NHS community-based Care (Education) and Treatment Reviews (C(E)TRs) on reducing hospital admissions and improving outcomes for people with learning disabilities and autistic people.
Research interests:
- Attention and perception
- Reinforcement learning
- Autism and learning disabilities
- Computational psychiatry