Jon Driver

Jon Driver is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London and a leading psychologist / neuroscientist in the UK.He is Director of the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and also a Principal Investigator at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL.

The UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (ICN) is a leading interdisciplinary research centre that studies the brain basis of mental processes in health and disease, for adults and children. The ICN brings togetherover 100 researchers from different disciplines, such as psychology, anatomy, neurology, and language sciences, all with common interests in understanding the human mind and brain, under Jon Driver's leadership.The ICN is located in Queen Square, London WC1, a historic square that has a unique tradition in neuroscience, and is also the location of the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and the associated Institute of Neurology.The neighbouring Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL is one of the top neuroimaging centres in the world.

Jon Driver has authored over 250 full scientific publications. In 2005 he was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and in 2006 as a member of Academia Europaea, the Academy of Europe. Previous awards include the Spearman Medal of the British Psychological Society, the Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) Prize, and the EPS Mid-Career Award. His research has been funded by the Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust, the Biology and Biotechnology Research Council, the Economic and Social Research Council, the McDonnell Foundation, the Stroke Association, and the Royal Society. He was recipient of a prestigious Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, and in 2007 became a Royal Society - Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow.

He is married to Nilli Lavie, a Professor of Psychology at UCL, and lives with her and their two sons in North London.

Research

Driver's research focuses on perception, selective attention and multisensory integration (interplay between our different senses) in the normal and damaged human brain. He uses a combination of psychophysical, neuropsychological, neuroimaging and TMS methods, including most recently a combined brain stimulation and brain imaging approach (concurrent TMS-fMRI).

elected publications

Ruff,C.C., Blankenburg,F., Bjoertomt,O., Bestmann,S., Freeman,E., Haynes,J-D.,Rees,G., Josephs,O., Deichmann,R., Driver,J. (2006). Concurrent TMS-fMRI and psychophysics reveal frontal influences on human retinotopic visual cortex. Current Biology 16(15), 1479-1488.

Driver,J. (1996). Enhancement of selective listening by illusory mislocation of speech sounds due to lip-reading. Nature 381, 66-68

External links

* [http://www.icn.ucl.ac.uk/ UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience]