Qualifications and Professional Body membership

PhD in Psychology from UCD, Dublin
PGCert in Learning and Teaching, Anglia Ruskin University
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society

Teaching

Fundamentals in Cognitive Psychology (Year 1)
Research Techniques for Psychology (Year 2) Module Leader
Forensic Psychology (Year 3) Module Leader

Research Interests

My principal research interests lie in the field of visual processing. In particular, I am interested in investigating face processing in terms of perceptual and cognitive influences. My recent work has focused on self-face processing.

EEG
Is the self-face special? I use EEG to ascertain the stage of processing at which "self" is distinguished from "other" in face perception.

Hemispheric Asymmetry, Inversion Effects
Recent evidence suggests that the self-face is represented by a wide bilateral network. I am testing for strong configural and featural elements in self-face representation. In particular, I work with inversion methodologies to investigate the relative input of both types of information in self-face processing.

Categorical Perception
I use behavioural methodologies to explore categorical perception of the self-face and other familiar faces. I am also interested in categorical sensitivity to the presence of our own face in others.

Adaptation
I use adaptation to investigate whether self- and other-faces are represented by shared or separate neural mechanisms.

Member of the Brain and Cognition Group

Selected Publications

Rooney B., Keyes, H. & Brady, N. (2012). Shared or separate mechanisms for self-face and other-face processing? Evidence from adaptation. Frontiers in Perception Science, 3:66. Doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00066.

Keyes, H. (2012). Categorical perception effects for facial identity in robustly represented familiar and self-faces: The role of configural and featural information. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, DOI:10.1080/17470218.2011.636822.

Keyes, H. & Brady, N. (2010). Self-face recognition is characterised by faster, more accurate performance, which persists when faces are inverted. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63(5), 840-847.

Keyes, H., Brady, N., Reilly, R. B., & Foxe, J. J. (2010). My face or yours? Event-related potential correlates of self-face processing. Brain and Cognition, 72(2), 244-254.

Selected Conference Proceedings

Keyes, H. (2010). Categorical perception effects for familiar face processing persist for inverted self-faces. British Psychological Society Annual Conference, Stratford-Upon-Avon, UK.

Keyes, H. & Brady, N. (2009). Self-face processing advantages persist when faces are inverted. British Psychological Society Annual Conference, Brighton, UK.

Keyes, H. & Brady, N. (2007). My face or yours? Early and late ERP correlates of self-face perception. European Conference on Visual Perception Annual Conference, Arezzo, Italy. Perception, 36, ECVP Abstract Supplement.

Keyes, H., Brady, N. & Rooney, B. (2007). "Natural Categories" in self/other face perception? British Psychological Society: The XXIV Annual Cognitive Section Conference, University of Aberdeen, UK.

Keyes, H., Brady, N. & Reilly, R. (2006). Neurophysiological correlates of self-face recognition. British Psychological Society Annual Conference: Student Section, Cardiff, UK.

Keyes, H., Brady, N., Maguire, A. & Reilly, R. (2005). Neurophysiological correlates of self-face recognition. European Brain and Behaviour Society 37th Annual General Conference, Dublin, Ireland.