Professor Bruce Hood
Bristol Cognitive Development Centre (BCDC) http://www.bris.ac.uk/bcdc/
After taking an undergraduate degree at the University of Dundee, I completed my Ph.D. at Cambridge and spend two post-doctoral years as a researcher and honorary lecturer at University College London (UCL). In 1994, I spent one year in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Science at MIT as an MRC visiting scientist to work with Susan Carey. In 1995, I become an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard where I stayed until 1999. That year, I returned to the UK to take the Chair in Developmental Psychology at Bristol and in 2001, I established the Bristol Cognitive Development Centre. I am and have been a member of various professional bodies including the British Psychological Society, Experimental Psychology Society and the American Psychology Association. I have a number of honours including Young Investigator Award 1998 (International Society for Infant Studies), American Psychology Society Robert L. Fantz award 1999 and Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Neuroscience 1997-1999. In 2005, I was elected a Fellow of the American Psychological Society. I have given keynote addresses to the British Psychological Society and the British Association for the Advancement of Science. I also am actively involved in the public engagement of science, with numerous public lectures.
Research interests include Cognitive development from a neuroscience perspective, face and gaze processing, inhibitory control of thoughts and actions, spatial representation and action, naïve theories and the origin of adult magical reasoning from children's natural intuitions.
Recent and current grants:
ESRC: 2003-2007: Why do children fail explicit search tasks?
MRC: 2005-2008: The Development of Strategies for Searching and Navigating Through Space (with Dr. I Gilchrist)
BBSRC: 2002-2005: Role of gaze in selective attention and face recognition in children
ESRC: 2005-2006: Early imitation and disengagement (with Dr. Meredith Gattis)
Collaborations:
Laurie Santos (Yale)
Meredith Gattis (Cardiff)
Paul Bloom (Yale)
Neil Macrae (Aberdeen)
Some recent publications:
Hood, B.M. & Bloom, P. (in press) Children prefer certain original objects over perfect duplicates. Cognition.
Gjersoe, N.L. & Hood, B. (2006) The supernatural guilt trip does not take us far enough. Brain & Behavioral Sciences, 29, 473-474.
Porter, G., Hood, B.M., Troscianko, T. & Macrae, C.N. (2006). Females, but not males, show greater pupillary response to direct than deviated gaze faces. Perception, 35, 1129-1136.
Hood, B.M. & Macrae, C.N. (2006). Look into my eyes: The effect of direct gaze on face processing in children and adults. In R. Flom, K. Lee & D. Muir (Eds) Ontogeny of Gaze Processing in Infants and Children. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Hood, B.M., Wilson, A. & Dyson, S. (2006). The effect of divided attention on the gravity error. Developmental Science, 9, 303-308.
Smith, A.D., Hood, B., & Hector, K. (2006). Eye remember you two: Gaze direction modulates face recognition in a developmental study. Developmental Science, 9, 465-472.
Einav, S & Hood, B.M. (2006). Children's use of the temporal dimension of gaze for inferring preference. Developmental Psychology, 42, 142-152.
Mason, M.F., Hood, B.M. & Macrae, C.N. (2005) Look into my eyes: gaze direction and person memory. Memory, 12, 637-643.
Smith, A.D., Gilchrist, I.D. & Hood, B.M. (2005). Children's search behaviour in large-scale space: Developmental components of exploration. Perception, 34, 1221-1229.
Hood, B.M. (2004) Is looking good enough or does it beggar belief? Invited commentary on Baillargeon. Developmental Science, 9, 415-417.
Freeman, N.H., Hood, B.M. & Meehan, C. (2004) Young children who abandon error behaviourally still have to free themselves mentally: a retrospective test for inhibition in intuitive physics. Developmental Science, 7 (3), 277-282
Hood, B.M. (2004). Children's understanding of the physical world. In R. L. Gregory (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to the Mind, 2nd. Edition. Oxford University Press.
Harvey, M., Hood, B., North, A. &. Robertson, I.H (2003) The effects of visuomotor feedback training on the recovery of hemispatial neglect symptoms: assessment of a two-week and follow-up intervention. Neuropsychologica, 41, 886-893.
Hood, B.M., Cole-Davies, V. & Dias, M. (2003) Looking and search measures of object knowledge in pre-school children. Developmental Psychology, 39, 61-70.
Hood, BM, Macrae, C.N., Cole-Davies, V. & Dias, M. (2003) Eye remember you! The effects of gaze direction on face recognition in children and adults. Developmental Science, 6(1), 69-73.
Macrae, C.N., Hood, BM, Milne, A.B., Rowe, A. & Mason, M.F. (2002) Are you looking at me? Eye gaze and person perception. Psychological Science,13, 460-464.
Gilchrist, I.D. North, A. & Hood, B. (2001). Is visual search really like foraging?. Perception, 30, 1459-1464.
Hood, B. (2001) Learning to internalize: a developmental perspective. Commentary on the work of Roger Shepard. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 676 - 677.
Hood, B. (2001) When do infants know about objects? Perception, 30, 1281-1284.
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