Prof. Dr. Ophelia Deroy

Primary research focus: Neurophilosophy

Second research focus: Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience

Keywords: Philosophy of Mind, Perception, Metacognition, Social Cognition

Brief research description: Ophelia Deroy specialises in philosophy of mind and cognitive neurosciences. She has widely published on issues related to multi-sensory perception and metacognition, and is working on these topics both in individuals and groups.

Research focus: Perception, Social cognition

Current GSN Students: (1st supervisor) Oriane Armand, Lucas Battich, Mark Carstensen, Sofiia Rappe, Anita Keshmirian, Rebecca Geiselmann, Mustafa Yavuz. (2nd supervisor and TAC member )Gasper Stukelj, Eleni Kapetaniou

Supervision of GSN MSc/Fast track students: Laboratory Internships: Shrinidhi Madhusudan, David Wurzer, Davide Crombie, Uma Navare, Judit Gonzales-Gallego, Courtney Alison McQuade. -  Research projects: Judit Gonzales-Gallego, Davide Crombie, Isabelle Garzosz, Stephen Guion. - MSc thesis : David Wurzer

Graduated GSN Students: Dr. Anita Keshmiria , Dr. Harry Waterstone

Selected publications:

Sulik, J., Bahrami, B., & Deroy, O. (2022). The diversity gap: when diversity matters for knowledge. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 17(3), 752-767.

Navajas, J., Armand, O., Moran, R., Bahrami, B., & Deroy, O. (2022). Diversity of opinions promotes herding in uncertain crowds. Royal Society open science, 9(6), 191497.

Battich, L., Fairhurst, M., & Deroy, O. (2020). Coordinating attention requires coordinated senses. Psychonomic bulletin & review, 27(6), 1126-1138.

Karpus, J., Krüger, A., Verba, J. T., Bahrami, B., & Deroy, O. (2021). Algorithm exploitation: Humans are keen to exploit benevolent AI. iScience, 24(6), 102679.

Deroy, O., Spence, C., & Noppeney, U. (2016). Metacognition in multisensory perception. Trends in cognitive sciences, 20(10), 736-747.