Lydia Whitaker


PhD Student


Contact Details
Room 4.708
Department of Psychology
University of Essex
Colchester CO4 3SQ
U.K.


Tel: +44 (0)1206 - 872575
Fax: +44 (0)1206 - 874901


username lwhita add @essex.ac.uk for email address

BIOGRAPHY


I completed my BSc in Psychology and MSc in Research Methods in Psychology at the University of Essex.


RESEARCH OVERVIEW


I am primarily interested in face and object processing of typically developing children and children with autistic spectrum disorder but also have interests in child development, imitation and adult face processing.



PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR Debi Roberson


RECENT PUBLICATIONS


Roberson, D., Kikutani, Döge, P, Whitaker, L. & Majid, A. (2012) Shades of emotion: What the addition of sunglasses or masks to faces reveals about the development of facial expression processing. Cognition, 125, 195-206.