Dr Marlene Poncet
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Email
marlene.poncet@essex.ac.uk -
Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 873369
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Location
3.710C, Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
I am interested in understanding how we perceive and experience the complex visual world around us. My research spans several topics in visual perception including object recognition, individuation, visual memory and motion perception. I use behavioural and EEG experiments to explore how the context, physical and cognitive, affects how visual information is processed in the brain and influences the way we interpret a visual scene. Before joining the University of Essex, I obtained my PhD from the University of Toulouse (France) and was a post-doctoral research fellow at CiMeC, Trento (Italy), the University of Aberdeen (UK), and the University of St Andrews (UK).
Appointments
University of Essex
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Lecturer, University of Essex (1/10/2023 - present)
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Visual neuroscience
Perception
EEG
Object recognition
Numerosity
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Cognitive Psychology and Economics (EC956)
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Cognitive Psychology (PS425)
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Advanced Brain and Behaviour (PS943)
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Advanced Cognitive Psychology (PS952)
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Statistics in Psychology (PS953)
Publications
Publications (3)
Poncet, M. and Ales, J., (2022). Estimating functional EEG sources using topographical templates
Poncet, M. and Chakravarthi, R., (2020). Subitizing object parts reveals a second stage of individuation
Poncet, M., Spotorno, S. and Jackson, M., (2020). Competition between emotional faces in visuo-spatial working memory
Journal articles (13)
Poncet, M., Spotorno, S. and Jackson, M., (2024). Competition between emotional faces in visuo-spatial working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
Poncet, M. and Ales, JM., (2023). Estimating neural activity from visual areas using functionally defined EEG templates. Human Brain Mapping. 44 (5), 1846-1861
Chakravarthi, R., Nordqvist, A., Poncet, M. and Adamian, N., (2023). Fundamental units of numerosity estimation. Cognition. 239, 105565-105565
Poncet, M. and Chakravarthi, R., (2021). Subitizing object parts reveals a second stage of individuation. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 28 (2), 476-486
Reddy, L., Zoefel, B., Possel, JK., Peters, J., Dijksterhuis, DE., Poncet, M., van Straaten, ECW., Baayen, JC., Idema, S. and Self, MW., (2021). Human Hippocampal Neurons Track Moments in a Sequence of Events. The Journal of Neuroscience. 41 (31), 6714-6725
Reddy, L., Self, MW., Zoefel, B., Poncet, M., Possel, JK., Peters, JC., Baayen, JC., Idema, S., VanRullen, R. and Roelfsema, PR., (2021). Theta-phase dependent neuronal coding during sequence learning in human single neurons. Nature Communications. 12 (1), 4839-
Poncet, M. and Ales, JM., (2020). Neural responses to apparent motion can be predicted by responses to non-moving stimuli. NeuroImage. 218, 116973-116973
Poncet, M., Fabre‐Thorpe, M. and Chakravarthi, R., (2020). A simple rule to describe interactions between visual categories. European Journal of Neuroscience. 52 (12), 4639-4666
Delorme, A., Poncet, M. and Fabre-Thorpe, M., (2018). Briefly Flashed Scenes Can Be Stored in Long-Term Memory. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 12, 688-
Poncet, M., Caramazza, A. and Mazza, V., (2016). Individuation of objects and object parts rely on the same neuronal mechanism. Scientific Reports. 6 (1), 38434-
Reddy, L., Poncet, M., Self, MW., Peters, JC., Douw, L., van Dellen, E., Claus, S., Reijneveld, JC., Baayen, JC. and Roelfsema, PR., (2015). Learning of anticipatory responses in single neurons of the human medial temporal lobe. Nature Communications. 6 (1), 8556-
Poncet, M. and Fabre‐Thorpe, M., (2014). Stimulus duration and diversity do not reverse the advantage for superordinate‐level representations: the animal is seen before the bird. European Journal of Neuroscience. 39 (9), 1508-1516
Poncet, M., Reddy, L. and Fabre-Thorpe, M., (2012). A need for more information uptake but not focused attention to access basic-level representations. Journal of Vision. 12 (1), 15-15
