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Alexandra Mitchell Education
Alexandra Mitchell Address: 16 St. Mary Street, St. Andrews, Fife, KY16 8AZ Telephone: +447500707780 Email: [email protected] Education PhD in Psychology The University of St. Andrews, 2015 - present MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience, Merit (mark: 74) Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL, September 2014 – 2015 BSc in Psychology, First Class Honours (mark: 73) University of York, 2011 – 2014 A-levels (A* - Psychology, A - Biology, A - Chemistry) Kingston Grammar School, London, 2008-2010 Employment and Experience PhD Research project (supervisor: Dr Daniela Balslev) Using functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate connections between brain areas involved in attention, reaching and eye position in patients with Spatial Neglect More experience with coding in Matlab and Psychtoolbox Experience working with stroke patients MSc Research project (supervisors: Dr Thomas Fitzgerald & Prof. Ray Dolan) Investigating influence of reward on cross-modal sensory perception using MEG (mark: 69) Using MEG to investigate enhanced visual acuity during simultaneous presentation of a high reward-conditioned tone Skills & Responsibilities Knowledge of how to analyse EEG/MEG data using SPM toolbox in MATLAB Experience in conducting MEG studies using eye-tracking in Cogent Third year undergraduate project (supervisor: Prof. Tim Andrews) The neural correlates of familiar and unfamiliar face perception, an fMRI study (mark: 80) Recently published as an abstract for the VSS: Weibert, Harris, Mitchell, Byrne & Andrews (2014), An image invariant representation of familiar faces in the human medial temporal lobe. Skills Skill using FEAT in the FSL toolbox for individual and group-level analyses Knowledge of experimental set-up and design used in fMRI experiments and methodology Incorporating behavioural measurements into brain imaging data through regression analysis, also using the FSL toolbox Summer research apprenticeship University of York, Department of Psychology: 22nd July – 20th September 2013 Skills & Responsibilities Worked for Prof. Andy Young, looking into recognition of famous faces when unable directly focus on the eye region Basic programming with Python Knowledge of how to use EyeLink eye-tracking software and analyse eyetracking data Volunteer research assistant University of York, Department of Psychology and York Neuroimaging Centre July 2012 – June 2013 Skills & Responsibilities Helped oversee behavioural and neuroimaging experiments and analyse both behavioural and neuroimaging data Developed knowledge of aspects of fMRI data analysis External activities Chair of University of York PsychSoc, 2012-2013 Responsible for running the society Organising social and academic events for members and developing events and schemes alongside the Psychology department Skills and Awards Published VSS Abstract, 2015 Knowledge of SPSS and capable statistical analysis alongside competent IT skills in Microsoft Office and Mac OS Completed EDCL course in 2007 Referees Dr Thomas Fitzgerald – [email protected] Professor Timothy Andrews – [email protected]