Dr Kielan Yarrow

Information:
Dr.Kielan Yarrow
Specialism:
Cognitive Neuroscience of perception and action
Teaching:
Undergraduate: Biological Psychology (memory, perception, attention, action) Cognitive Psychology (attention and perception) Cognitive Neuroscience (active perception, time perception)
Postgraduate: Research methods (cognitive neuroscience)
Location:
Social Sciences Building, Room D510
Tel:
020 7040 8530
Fax:
020 7040 8580
Email:
kielan.yarrow.1@city.ac.uk
Webpage:
http://www.hexicon.co.uk/Kielan
Office Hours:
Tues: 2-3, Weds 2-3, Thurs 11-12
Administration:
BSc Admissions Tutor, student affairs committee member


Kielan began his research career as an RA working at the MRC Human Movement and Balance Unit in Queen Square, London. He subsequently completed a PhD with John Rothwell at the Institute of Neurology, UCL. Kielan continued to work at the ION during a four year period of postdoctoral research, which was also carried out in collaboration with Patrick Haggard at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL. After eight years in Queen Square, Kielan made the short move to City University to take up a lectureship in October 2006.


Kielan has taught both cognitive and biological psychology, particularly sensory and motor aspects. His teaching reflects his research interests, which include multisensory perception (particularly temporal perception), attention, and action. One major project has involved a thorough investigation of the chronostasis illusion (the impression that time is expanded following an eye movement). This project has provided intriguing insights about high level processes in temporal perception. In addition to his independent research, Kielan continues to collaborate with colleagues at Queen Square and elsewhere, for example providing support for a series of studies recording activity from electrodes inserted into the brains of patients with Parkinson's disease.

 
Publications:

Rounis, E., Yarrow, K. & Rothwell, J.C. Effects of rTMS conditioning over the fronto-parietal network on motor versus visual attention. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 513-524 (2007).


Yarrow, K., Whiteley, L., Haggard, P. & Rothwell, J.C. Biases in the perceived timing of perisaccadic visual and motor events. Perception and Psychophysics, 68, 1217-26 (2006).


Brown, P., Chen, C.C., Wang, S., Kühn, A.,Doyle, L., Yarrow, K., Nuttin, B., Stein, J. & Aziz, T. Involvement of Human Basal Ganglia in Off-Line Feed-Back Control of Voluntary Movement. Current Biology, 16, 2129-34 (2006).


Kühn, A.A., Doyle, L., Pogosyan, A., Yarrow, K., Kupsch, A., Schneider, G., Hariz, M.I., Trottenberg, T. & Brown, P. Modulation of beta oscillations in the subthalamic area during motor imagery in Parkinson's disease. Brain, 129, 695-706 (2006).


Yarrow, K., Whiteley, L., Rothwell, J.C. & Haggard, P. Spatial consequences of bridging the saccadic gap. Vision Research, 46, 545-555 (2006).