Social Cognitive Neuroscience
I am passionate about investigating the neurocognitive processes underlying social interaction using advanced computational modeling approaches!
Computational Social Neuroscience
Representational Similarity Analysis
Understanding the relationship between neurocognitive processes through brain activity patterns.
Our team won second place in the 2022 Computational Social and Affective Neuroscience Data competition
We investigatedwhether patterns of neural responses to faces of characters in a 45 minute-long dynamic film involving multiple people (viewed in a variety of orientations, lighting, movement, and clothing) correspond to representations of low-level visual features (e.g., visual similarity) and higher-level social features (e.g., social relationships) created from independent sources. We utilized Amazon’s Rekognition, AlexNet, and novel data analysis approach to examine the representation of social networks in an episode of Friday Night Lights.
Meta-analysis of Social Interactive Neuroimaging Studies
I’m in the processes of finishing up a large-scale meta-analysis of social interaction fMRI studies.
- Merchant, J.S., Glaros, S., Edakoth, E., Harris, R., Tchangalova, N., & Redcay, R. (under review). Brain bases of real-time social interaction: A meta-analytic investigation of human neuroimaging studies.
