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    		          I'm a postdoctoral research fellow in Prof. Asif Ghazanfar's Primate Neuroethology Laboratory, part of the Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University. I am investigating gaze following and other forms of "social contagion", whereby thoughts, feelings, attention, and intention are transmitted between individuals via ritualized behavioral signals. You can read about my graduate work with Prof. Michael Platt at Duke here. Watch this space to see how my postdoctoral work develops — I'll try to keep things up to date, but if you have a burning question, write me: .

    Academic Publications:

    "Social Attention in the Brain." Klein JT, Shepherd SV, Platt ML. Current Biology 19:R958-62, 2009. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2009.08.010 [pdf]

    "Engaging neocortical networks with dynamic faces." Shepherd SV, Ghazanfar AA. In Dynamic Faces: Insights from Experiments and Computation, Eds. Giese M, Curio C, Bülthoff H, M.I.T. Press, in press

    "Neuroethology of Attention in Primates." Shepherd SV, Platt ML. In Primate Neuroethology (eds. M. Platt & A. Ghazanfar), in press 2009.

    "Neuroeconomics: Implications for understanding the neurobiology of addiction." Platt ML, Watson KK, Hayden BH, Shepherd SV, Klein JT. In Frontiers in the Neurobiology of Addiction (eds. C.M. Kuhn & G.F Koob), CRC Press, in press 2009.

    "Mirroring of attention by neurons in macaque parietal cortex." Shepherd SV, Klein JT, Deaner RO, Platt ML. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 106(23):9489-94, 2009. doi:10.1073/pnas.0900419106 [pdf] [press]

    "Neuroethology of Attention in Primates." Shepherd SV, Platt ML. In Cognitive Biology: Evolutionary and Developmental Perspectives on Mind, Brain and Behavior (eds. L. Tommasi, M. Peterson & L. Nadel), MIT Press, 2009.

    "Neuroethology of Pleasure." Watson KK, Shepherd SV, Platt ML. In Pleasures of the Brain (eds. M.L. Kringelbach & K.C. Berridge), Oxford University Press, 2009. [pdf]

    "Neuroethology of Social Attention in Primates." Shepherd SV. Dissertation, Duke University, 2008. [pdf]

    "Spontaneous social orienting and gaze-following in ringtailed lemurs (Lemur catta)." Shepherd SV, Platt ML. Animal Cognition 11(1):13-20, 2008. doi:10.1007/s10071-007-0083-6 [pdf]

    "Missed connections: Integrating proximate and ultimate explanations in cognitive neuroscience. A review of Steven M. Platek, Julian P. Keenan, and Todd K. Shackelford (Eds.), Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience." Deaner RO, Shepherd SV. Evolutionary Psychology 5(3): 632-641, 2007. [pdf]

    "Familiarity accentuates gaze-cuing in women but not men." Deaner RO, Shepherd SV, Platt ML. Biology Letters 3:64-7, 2006. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2006.0564 [pdf]

    "Social status gates social attention in monkeys." Shepherd SV, Deaner RO, Platt ML. Current Biology 16(4):R119-R120, 2006. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2006.02.013 [pdf]

    "Noninvasive telemetric gaze tracking in freely-moving socially-housed prosimian primates." Shepherd SV, Platt ML. Methods 38(3):185-194, 2006. doi:10.1016/j.ymeth.2005.12.003 [pdf] [Skriatok scripts for Matlab]