Professor Gina Rippon

Gina Rippon is Professor of Cognitive NeuroImaging in the Aston Brain Centre at Aston University. She has been at Aston since 2000, and was previously at the University of Warwick. A cognitive neuroscientist, she has a background in psychology and physiology (studying at Bedford College and at Birkbeck College, University of London) and uses brain imaging techniques : Magnetoencephalography (MEG), functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG), to investigate the relationship between patterns of brain activation and human sensory, cognitive and affective processes. Most recently her work has been in the field of developmental disorders such as autism. She has served as President of the British Psychophysiology Society (now the British Association of Cognitive Neuroscience) and has recently been made an Honorary Fellow of the British Science Association.