Brief Biography
Kia Nobre received her PhD from Yale University in 1992, during which she focused on intracranial as well as non-invasive electrophysiological studies of human cognition. During her postdoctoral research at Yale, and then at Harvard (1992-1994), she was involved in some of the first brain-imaging studies of cognitive functions in the human brain. In 1994 she moved to Oxford as a McDonnell Pew Lecturer in Cognitive Neuroscience and a Junior Research Fellow at New College. In 1996 she took up a position as University Lecturer in the Department of Experimental Psychology, where she has been promoted to Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience. Kia directs the Brain & Cognition Laboratory. She also holds an Adjunct Professor position at Northwestern University in Chicago, USA. The Brain & Cognition Laboratory uses multiple and complementary non-invasive brain-imaging methods (FMRI, ERP, EEG, TMS) combined with behavioural studies to reveal the neural systems supporting cognitive functions in the human brain. In particular, much of the lab`s activity is devoted to understanding `attentional orienting`: how the brain generates moment-to-moment predictions about events to unfold in order to optimise perception and action. The laboratory collaborates closely with a number of research groups: Mesulam, Northwestern University; Coull, University of Provence; Raymond & Shapiro, University of Bangor; Eimer, Birkbeck University; Taylor, King`s College; Rushworth, Oxford; Cowey, Oxford.