Geoff brings with him experience in cognitive neuroscience, autism research, and policy advising. He returns here to UCL where – a while back – he did his PhD with Cecilia Heyes, exploring the mechanisms of imitation. Following this, he joined the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (ICN), working with Chris and Uta Frith on autism research, employing fMRI to study attentional modulation, executive functions, empathy, and more in autistic adults.
At ICN, he also collaborated with Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on theory of mind and social emotions across adolescence, and with Tania Singer on the neural basis of empathy and fairness. Geoff then moved to the Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution (ELSE), continuing his work on imitation and decision-making in neurotypical and autistic adults with Cecilia Heyes. After a year advising the UK government on science policy, he joined Birkbeck’s Department of Psychological Sciences, before transitioning to the MRC SGDP Centre at IoPPN. Here, Geoff broadened his work on autism to include Alexithymia and interoception, continuing this research at Oxford’s Department of Experimental Psychology with a Tutorial Fellowship at Brasenose College.
He now divides his time between Oxford and UCL, continuing research and contribution to the field.
Recent publications
2024 and in press
- Lee, K.S., Catmur, C. & Bird, G. (in press). Childhood Language Development and Alexithymia in Adolescence: An Eight-Year Longitudinal Study. Development and Psychopathology.
- Lee, K.S., Long, E.L., Catmur, C., Hauser, T.U., & Bird, G. (in press). Information Gathering: Dissociable Effects of Autistic and Alexithymic Traits in Youths Aged 6 to 25 Years. Emotion.
- Quesque, F.,….Bird, G.,…& Brass, M. (in press). Defining key concepts for mental state attribution. Commmunications Psychology.
- Todd, J., Plans, D. Lee, M.C., Bird, J.M., Morelli, D., Cunningham, A., Ponzo, S., Murphy, J., Bird, G. & Aspell, J.E. (2024). Heightened Interoception in Adults with Fibromyalgia. Biological Psychology, 186:108761.
- Poerio, G.L., Klabunde, M., Bird, G., & Murphy, J. (in press) Interoceptive attention and mood in daily life: an experience-sampling study. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
- Viding, E., Lloyd, A., Law, R, Martin, P., Lucas, L., Wu, T., Steinbeis, N., Midgley, N., Veenstra, R., Smith, J., Ly, L., Bird, G., Murphy, J., Plans, D., Munafo, M., Penton-Voak, I., Deighton, J., Richards, K., Richards, M., & Fearon, P. (2024). Trial protocol for the Building Resilience through Socio-Emotional Training (ReSET) programme: a cluster randomized controlled trial of a new transdiagnostic preventative intervention for adolescents, Trials, 25: 143.
- Murphy, J. & Bird, G. (2024). Auditing measures of interoceptive accuracy: important clarifications. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 158:105557.
- Nijhof, A. D., Catmur, C., Brewer, R., Coll, M-P., Wiersema, R.J., & Bird, G. (2024) Differences in Own-Face but not Own-Name Discrimination between Autistic and Neurotypical Adults: A Fast Periodic Visual Stimulation-EEG Study. Cortex, 171, 308-318
- Stantic. M., Knyspek, J., Gaches, A., Liu, Y., Bird, G., & Catmur, C. (2024) The Oxford Face Matching Test: Short Form Alternative. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77(4):893-897.