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Laura Germine

0000-0001-8690-8412

Research Fellow (Psychology)

Massachusetts General Hospital

Laura Germine is postdoctoral researcher in the Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School. She is also Founder and Director of TestMyBrain.org, a website for large-scale behavioral data collection. Laura received her BA from the University of California, Berkeley in Molecular & Cell Biology and her PhD from Harvard University in Psychology (Experimental Psychopathology), where she was a member ofthe Social Neuroscience & Psychopathology Lab and the Vision Sciences Lab. Laura is interested in individual differences in cognitive functioning across the lifespan, how these individual differences are driven by variations in environmental and genetic factors, and the relationship between cognitive functioning and psychiatric vulnerability.

Publications

  • Hooker, C., Germine, L., Knight, R.T., and D'Esposito, M. (2006). Amygdala response to facial expressions reflects emotional learning. Journal of Neuroscience, 26(35): 8915-8922
  • Duchaine, B., Germine L., & Nakayama, K. (2007). Family Resemblance: Ten Family Members with Prosopagnosia and Within-Class Object Agnosia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 24: 419-430.
  • Hooker, C., Verosky, S., Germine, L., Knight, R.T., and D'Esposito, M. (2008) Mentalizing about emotion and its relationship to empathy. Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience, 3: 204-217.
  • Duchaine, B., Jenkins, R., Germine, L., and Calder, A. (2009) Normal gaze discrimination and adaptation in seven prosopagnosics. Neuropsychologia, 47(10): 2029-2036.
  • Hooker, C., Verosky, S., Germine, L., Knight, R.T., and D'Esposito, M. (2010) Neural activity during social signal perception correlates with self-reported empathy. Brain Research, 1308: 100-113.
  • Wilmer, J., Germine, L., Chabris, C., Chatterjee, G., Williams., M., Loken, E., Nakayama, K., and Duchaine, B. (2010) Human face recognition ability is specific and highly heritable. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(11): 5238-5241.
  • Wilmer, J., Germine, L., Loken, E., Guo, X., Chatterjee, G., Nakayama, K., Williams, M., Chabris, C., and Duchaine, B. (2010) Response to Thomas: Is human face recognition ability entirely genetic? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(24): E101.
  • Germine, L., Cashdollar, N., Duzel, E., and Duchaine, B. (2011) A new selective developmental deficit: Impaired object recognition with normal face recognition. Cortex, 47: 598-607.
  • Germine, L. and Hooker, C. (2011) Face emotion recognition is related to individual differences in psychosis-proneness. Psychological Medicine, 41(5): 937-948.
  • Germine, L., Duchaine, B., and Nakayama, K. (2011) Where cognitive development and aging meet: Face learning ability peaks after age 30. Cognition, 118(2): 201-210
  • Germine, L., Garrido, L., Bruce, L., and Hooker, C. (2011) Social anhedonia is associated with neural abnormalities during face emotion processing. Neuroimage, 58(3): 935-945.
  • Halberda, J., Ly, R., Wilmer, J., Naiman, D., and Germine, L. (2012) Number sense across the lifespan as revealed by a massive internet-based sample. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(28): 11116-11120.
  • Germine, L., Nakayama, K., Duchaine, B., Chabris, C., Chatterjee, G., and Wilmer, J. (2012) Is the web as good as the lab? Comparable performance from web and lab in cognitive/perceptual experiments. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 19(5): 847-857.
  • Wilmer, J., Germine, L., Chabris, C., Chatterjee, G., Gerbasi, M., and Nakayama, K. (2012) Capturing specific abilities as a window into human individuality: the example of face recognition. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 29(5-6):360-392.
  • Germine, L., Benson, T., Cohen, F., and Hooker, C. (2013) Psychosis-proneness and the rubber hand illusion of body ownership. Psychiatry Research, 207(1-2):45-52.
  • Susilo, T., Germine, L., and Duchaine, B. (in press) Face recognition ability matures late: Evidence from individual differences in young adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

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Co-workers & collaborators

  • Ken Nakayama

  • Brad Duchaine

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