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Top Neuroscience Researchers at University of Sussex for 2026
At the University of Sussex, recent neuroscience research spans consciousness, cognition, perception, and the methods used to study them. The work highlighted below reflects a broad and active community, with publications that connect theory, experiment, and computational approaches.
Across the last year, researchers at Sussex have been asking how minds work, how artificial systems might be assessed, and how neural signals and everyday experience can be studied with care. The snapshots below offer a quick view into that range.
Featured Researchers
Anil K. Seth
Anil K. Seth, at the University of Sussex, has focused on cognitive neuroscience questions around consciousness, including <em>Conscious artificial intelligence and biological naturalism</em> and <em>A science of consciousness beyond pseudo-science and pseudo-consciousness</em>.
Activity over the last year: 10 indexed journal articles.
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Fernando E. Rosas
Fernando E. Rosas, also at the University of Sussex, has worked across cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, and electrical and electronic engineering, with recent papers including <em>Toward a unified taxonomy of information dynamics via Integrated Information Decomposition</em> and <em>Fast Möbius transform: An algebraic approach to information decomposition</em>.
Activity over the last year: 9 indexed journal articles.
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Andy Clark
Andy Clark’s recent University of Sussex work connects cognitive neuroscience with social and experimental psychology, especially in papers such as <em>Extending Minds with Generative AI</em> and <em>ChatGPT, extended: large language models and the extended mind</em>.
Activity over the last year: 6 indexed journal articles.
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Jenny M. Bosten
Jenny M. Bosten, at the University of Sussex, has been publishing on cognitive neuroscience and optics, including <em>A standardized nomenclature for the rods and cones of the vertebrate retina</em> and studies of cortical color tuning using steady-state visually evoked potentials.
Activity over the last year: 5 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- A standardized nomenclature for the rods and cones of the vertebrate retina (May 2025)
- Comparison of intermodulation and oddball methods for measuring human cortical color tuning functions using steady-state visually evoked potentials (Jan 2025)
- Tuning of cortical color mechanisms revealed using steady-state visually evoked potentials (Jan 2025)
Giulia Poerio
Giulia Poerio’s University of Sussex research spans cognitive neuroscience and experimental psychology, with recent work on ASMR, the default mode network, and experience-sampling in daily life.
Activity over the last year: 5 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- More relaxing than nature? The impact of ASMR content on psychological and physiological measures of parasympathetic activity (Jan 2025)
- The default mode network and the complex dynamics of ongoing experience: an attractor-state perspective (Jun 2025)
- Mapping cognition across lab and daily life using Experience-Sampling (Apr 2025)
Axel Constant
Axel Constant, at the University of Sussex, has recently published on cognitive neuroscience and social psychology, including <em>The Place ofNarrative inPsychiatric Theoryand Practice</em> and <em>Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems</em>.
Activity over the last year: 5 indexed journal articles.
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James C. Knight
James C. Knight’s University of Sussex publications bridge electrical and electronic engineering with cognitive and cellular neuroscience, from <em>Loss shaping enhances exact gradient learning with Eventprop in spiking neural networks</em> to <em>Building on models—a perspective for computational neuroscience</em>.
Activity over the last year: 4 indexed journal articles.
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Laura Desirèe Di Paolo
Laura Desirèe Di Paolo, at the University of Sussex, has explored education and cognitive neuroscience through work such as <em>Montessori, math, and materials: a case of extended cognition</em> and <em>Material culture both reflects and causes human cognitive evolution</em>.
Activity over the last year: 3 indexed journal articles.
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What University of Sussex's Neuroscience Community Is Working On
The strongest pattern across the featured University of Sussex researchers is cognitive neuroscience, which sits at the center of a wider conversation that also includes experimental and cognitive psychology, electrical and electronic engineering, social psychology, and clinical psychology. Together, these subfields suggest a community actively exploring consciousness, perception, extended cognition, and computational models of neural and mental processes, while also testing how those ideas apply in real-world and clinical settings.- Cognitive Neuroscience - seen across 8 of the featured researchers
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology - seen across 3 of the featured researchers
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering - seen across 2 of the featured researchers
- Social Psychology - seen across 2 of the featured researchers
- Clinical Psychology - seen across 1 of the featured researchers
These recent publications show a neuroscience community working across conceptual, experimental, and computational questions, with plenty of overlap between psychology, engineering, and consciousness studies. If you want to keep track of work like this, Resub can help streamline citation discovery, manuscript formatting, and submission prep for your own research workflow.
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