Helen Rodger Fonction: Assistant - PhD Student Bureau: C-3-116 Téléphone: ++41 26 300 7668 Courriel: helen.rodger

Research Interests: 

Cultural Neuroscience, Cognitive Development, Visual Cognition, Face Processing, Empathy 

I'm investigating how culture may influence social perception for my thesis; using eye tracking methods to investigate emotional expression understanding during development and brain imaging methods to investigate neural mechanisms involved in empathic understanding across cultures.

Journal Publications:

Kelly, D.J., Liu, S., Rodger, H., Miellet, S., Ge, L. & Caldara, R. (2011) Developing Cultural Differences in Face Processing. Developmental Science, 14 (5), 1176-1184. 

Rodger, H., Kelly, D., Blais, C., & Caldara, R. (2010) Inverting faces does not abolish cultural diversity in eye movements. Perception, 39(11) 1491 – 1503.

Miellet, S., Zhou, X., He, L., Rodger, H., & Caldara, R. (2010) Investigating cultural diversity for extrafoveal information use in visual scenes. Journal of Vision, 10 (6) article 21.

Conference Presentations: 

Vizioli L., Lao J., Rodger, H. & Caldara, R. (2012). Culture shapes interbrain synchronization during human goal decoding. Alpine Brain Imaging Meeting, Champéry, Switzerland.

Lao J., Vizioli L., Rodger, H. & Caldara, R. (2012). Neural Adaptation Reveals Early Cultural Tunings in Perceptual Sensitivity to Local/Global Shapes. Alpine Brain Imaging Meeting, Champéry, Switzerland.

Rodger, H., & Caldara, R. (2010). First fixation toward the geometric center of human faces is common across tasks and culture. 10th Annual Meeting Vision Sciences Society, Naples, Florida, U.S.A.

Kelly, D.J., Miellet, S., Rodger, H., & Caldara, R. (2010). Tracking cultural diversity in visual perception across development. Experimental Psychology Society Meeting, UCL, U.K.

Miellet, S., Rodger, H., He, L. & Caldara, R. (2009) Investigating cultural diversity for extrafoveal information use in scenes. ECEM2009: 15h European Conference on Eye Movements, Southampton, U.K.