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Catherine L. Reed Position: Associate Professor of Psychology Office: 340 Frontier Hall Address: Department of Psychology, University of Denver 2155 S. Race St. Denver, CO 80208 Phone: (303) 871-4622 FAX: (303) 871-4747 E-Mail: creed@du.edu |
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Catherine L. Reed Position: Associate Professor of Psychology Office: 340 Frontier Hall Address: Department of Psychology, University of Denver 2155 S. Race St. Denver, CO 80208 Phone: (303) 871-4622 FAX: (303) 871-4747 E-Mail: creed@du.edu |
| Embodied Perception, Attention, Cognition & Emotion | ||
| Our ability to
recognize people we know, understand the intent of their actions, learn
new skills, and interact successfully with the environment relies on our
ability to quickly and accurately understand the body positions of
others relative to the current positions of our own bodies. Making
accurate interpretations of others’ actions and emotions and then
understanding them within the context of one’s own bodily state is
difficult task in a constantly changing world.
However, creating mappings between the self and other is an
essential component both for successful responses to environmental
events and for successful interaction in the social world
The goal of my research is to understand the role that the body plays in directing our perception and cognition to the actions of ourselves and others. To develop a unified understanding of how we represent the human body and its actions, I and members of my lab examine the relation between brain function and action using the tools of cognitive psychology, cognitive neuropsychology, and functional neuroimaging (fMRI, MEG). These studies address how we perceive the body postures of ourselves and others, whether the human body is “special” in its recognition and brain representation, how body position and direction influence attention to specific regions of space, how our actions and experiences affect object recognition and emotional processing, and whether the somatosensory system has modality specific object recognition and spatial localization pathways separate from the visual system’s.
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| Cognitive Neuroscience Lab | ||
| People, Publications, Recent Findings, Contact Information | ||
| Ph.D. Programs at the University of Denver | ||
| Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (DCN) Program | ||
| Cognitive Program | ||
| Ph.D. Program | ||
| Useful Links | ||
| Penrose Catalog | ||
| PubMed | ||
| Brain Atlases, Neuroimaging, Neuroscience Societies, Government Agencies | ||
| Penrose E-data Base | ||
updated 11/2006
