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Dr Stephanie Baines
Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor – Quality Assurance/Senior Lecturer (Education) in Psychology

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Summary

I joined the Division of Psychology as a lecturer (education) in 2021. After completing my D.Phil at the University of Oxford I undertook postdoctoral research at the Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders followed by a teaching fellowship at the Department of Experimental Psychology,  both at University College London. I was a lecturer in cognitive neuroscience at the University of Manchester (2015-2018) and lecturer in psychology at Bangor University (2018-2021).

I have a background in cognitive neuroscience. My particular interests lie in the neuroscience of eating behaviour, reward processing, emotion and consciousness. 

Qualifications

D.Phil in Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Oxford (2010)

MSc in Psychology, University of Auckland (2006)

BSc (hons) in Psychology, University of Auckland (2005)

Fellow of the HEA

Newest selected publications

Baines, S., Hensels, IS. and Talmi, D. (2022) 'An EEG study on the effect of being overweight on anticipatory and consummatory reward in response to pleasant taste stimuli'. Physiology and Behavior, 252. pp. 1 - 20. ISSN: 0031-9384 Open Access Link

Journal article

Baines, S., Hensels, IS. and Talmi, D. (2020) 'The use of ‘artificial saliva’ as a neutral control condition in gustatory research: Artificial saliva is not a neutral gustatory stimulus'. Physiology and Behavior, 229. pp. 1 - 10. ISSN: 0031-9384 Open Access Link

Journal article

Baines, S. (2017) 'Controlling food seeking in the presence of food cues (Commentary on van Steenbergen et al. (2017))'. European Journal of Neuroscience, 46 (2). pp. 1813 - 1814. ISSN: 0953-816X

Journal article

Marks, J. and Baines, S. (2017) 'Optimistic belief updating despite inclusion of positive events'. Learning and Motivation, 58. pp. 88 - 101. ISSN: 0023-9690

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