Jon Walbrin

• PhD
• PhD Student at Bangor University

Object recognition is an important ability that relies on distinguishing between similar objects (e.g., deciding which utensil(s) to use at different stages of meal preparation). Recent work describes the fine-grained organization of knowledge about manipulable objects via the study of the constituent dimensions that are most relevant to human beha...

Object recognition is an important human ability that relies on distinguishing between similar objects, for example, deciding which kitchen utensil(s) to use at different stages of meal preparation. Recent work describes the fine-grained organization of knowledge about manipulable objects via the study of the constituent dimensions that are most re...

This study introduces fMROI, an open-source software designed for creating regions-of-interest (ROIs) and visualizing magnetic resonance imaging data. fMROI offers a user-friendly graphical interface that simplifies the creation of complex ROIs. It is compatible with various operating systems and enables the integration of user-specified algorithms...

Understanding how we recognize everyday objects requires unravelling the variables that govern the way we think about objects and the way in which our representations are organized neurally. A major hypothesis is that the organization of object knowledge follows key object-related dimensions, analogously to how sensory information is organized in t...

Rapidly recognizing and understanding others’ social interactions is an important ability that relies on deciphering multiple sources of information; for example, perceiving body information and inferring others’ intentions. Despite recent advances in characterizing the brain basis of this ability in adults, its developmental underpinnings are virt...

A key challenge for neurobiological models of social cognition is to elucidate whether brain regions are specialised for that domain. In recent years, discussion surrounding the role of anterior temporal regions epitomises such debates; some argue the anterior temporal lobe (ATL) is part of a domain‐specific network for social processing, while oth...

Perception of risk is known to change throughout the lifespan. Previous studies showed that younger adults are more prone to risk behaviours than older adults. Do these age-related differences influence risk perception during a pandemic crisis? Here, we investigated how age influenced predicted risk during the COVID-19 emergency state in Portugal....

A key challenge for neurobiological models of social cognition is to elucidate whether brain regions are specialised for that domain. In recent years, discussion surrounding the role of the anterior temporal lobe (ATL) epitomises such debates; some argue it is part of a domain-specific network for social processing, while others claim it is a domai...

Human object recognition is dependent on occipito-temporal cortex (OTC), but a complete understanding of the complex functional architecture of this area must account for how it is connected to the wider brain. Converging functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence shows that univariate responses to different categories of information (e.g., fac...

Deep neural network models are shown to shed light on how the human brain solves problems such as objects recognition. However the explanatory power of higher-level visual processes (e.g. semantic object features) is limited with Convolutional Neural Networks. Previous work (Devereux et al., 2018) provide a solution to this problem, via the annexat...

Human object recognition is dependent on occipito-temporal cortex, but a complete understanding of the complex functional architecture of this area must account for how it is connected to the wider brain. Converging functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence shows that univariate responses to different categories of information (e.g. faces, bod...

Head motion remains a challenging confound in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of both children and adults. Most pediatric neuroimaging labs have developed experience-based, child-friendly standards concerning e.g. the maximum length of a session or the time between mock scanner training and actual scanning. However, it is uncle...

Recent evidence demonstrates that a region of the posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS) is selective to visually observed social interactions in adults. In contrast, little is known about neural responses to social interactions in children. Here, we used fMRI to ask whether the pSTS is ‘tuned’ to social interactions in children at all, and if s...

Head motion remains a challenging confound in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of both children and adults. Most pediatric neuroimaging labs have developed experience-based, child-friendly standards concerning e.g. the maximum length of a session or the date of mock scanner training. However, it is unclear which factors of child...

Recent evidence demonstrates that a region of the posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS) is selective to visually observed social interactions in adults. In contrast, we know comparatively little about neural responses to social interactions in children. Here, we used fMRI to ask whether the pSTS would be ‘tuned’ to social interactions in childr...

Many neurobiological accounts of the human ability to make mental state attributions (or theory or mind; TOM) posit a central role of the temporoparietal junction (TPJ)1, despite evidence from neuropsychology2 and functional neuroimaging3 that further suggests an important contribution from the anterior temporal lobes (ATL). A parallel set of liter...

Recent behavioural evidence shows that visual displays of two individuals interacting are not simply encoded as separate individuals, but as an interactive unit that is 'more than the sum of its parts'. Recent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) evidence shows the importance of the posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS) in processing hu...

Recent behavioural evidence shows that visual displays of two individuals interacting are not simply encoded as separate individuals, but as an interactive unit that is ‘more than the sum of its parts’. Recent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) evidence shows the importance of the posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS) in processing hu...

Success in the social world requires the ability to perceive not just individuals and their actions, but pairs of people and the interactions between them. Despite the complexity of social interactions, humans are adept at interpreting those interactions they observe. Although the brain basis of this remarkable ability has remained relatively unexp...

Studies investigating human motor learning and movement perception have shown that similar sensorimotor brain regions are engaged when we observe or perform action sequences. However, the way these networks enable translation of complex observed actions into motor commands—such as in the context of dance—remains poorly understood. Emerging evidence...