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.
Printed abstracts
Whitaker, L., Jones, C.R.G., Wilkins, A., & Roberson, D. Individuals with autism spectrum disorders benefit from the addition of coloured tints when discriminating intensities of facial expressions. Perception, 39 (ECVP Abstract Supplement), 82.
Invited talks
Whitaker, L., Roberson, D., & Jones, C. R. G. Children with autism spectrum disorder do not benefit from being oriented to the most informative part of the face when classifying angry facial expressions of emotion. International Society for Research on Emotion, University of California, Berkeley, 2nd-6th August 2013
