Rebecca Chamberlain
Lecturer
Psychology
Goldsmiths University of London
United Kingdom
Biography
Expertise in the arts Visual aesthetics Creativity Learning disabilities and the arts Individual differences in perception and attention I studied for a foundation degree in Art and Design at the University of the Arts, London before moving into cognitive science. I completed my undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Experimental Psychology at University College London researching the psychology and neuroscience of representational drawing ability, before joining Professor Johan Wagemans’ lab at KU Leuven in Belgium as a postdoctoral researcher in 2013. I joined Goldsmiths as a lecturer in 2017.
Research Interest
My research focuses on the psychology and neuroscience of the production and perception of visual art. I am particularly interested in the mechanisms by which artists acquire their expertise, and the impact of engagement with the visual arts can have on education and mental health. I am also interested in how individual differences in perception interact with learning and cognition.
Publications
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Chamberlain, Rebecca; Mullin, Caitlin; Scheerlinck, Bram and Wagemans, Johan. 2017. Putting the Art in Artificial: Aesthetic Responses to Computer-generated Art. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, ISSN 1931-3896
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Developing The Leuven Embedded Figures Test (L-EFT): Testing the stimulus features that influence embedding De-Wit, Lee; Huygelier, Hanne; van der Hallen, Ruth; Chamberlain, Rebecca and Wagemans, Johan. 2017. Developing The Leuven Embedded Figures Test (L-EFT): Testing the stimulus features that influence embedding. PeerJ, 5, e2862.
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Local-global processing bias is not a unitary individual difference in visual processing Chamberlain, Rebecca; van der Hallen, Ruth; Huygelier, Hanne; Van de Cruys, Sander and Wagemans, Johan. 2017. Local-global processing bias is not a unitary individual difference in visual processing. Vision Research, ISSN 0042-6989
