Dr. Carly A. Anderson

Carly is an Independent Research Fellow hosted by Prof. Mairéad MacSweeney in the Visual Communication Research Group at the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, and is supported by a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Carly is also a visiting research fellow at The Human Vision and Eye Movement Laboratory lead by Prof. Jason Barton at the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, UBC.

Carly is interested in the interplay between how we process linguistic and non-linguistic information from the face. Her current research focusses on how sensory (deafness) and language experience (bilingualism, and use of visual language) can impact face processing (face recognition, gaze following, and emotion perception). To help answer these questions, Carly has begun to apply a data-driven Deep Learning approach to examine face-scanning patterns in monolingual and bilingual adults.

Carly earned her PhD in Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Nottingham, UK, where she conducted a longitudinal study of audio-visual cortical plasticity in deaf adults with cochlear implants using fNIRS (functional near-infrared spectroscopy). Carly worked as a post-doctoral researcher with Dr. Karen Gordon at Archie's Cochlear Implant Lab in Toronto, where she used EEG (electroencephalography) to understand cortical auditory development in deaf children with cochlear implants.