Royal Holloway academic announced as new President-Elect for the British Neuroscience Association

03 May 2023

Professor Narender Ramnani has been named as the new President-Elect for the British Neuroscience Association (BNA).

Royal Holloway Data Visualization Competition: Exploring World Cup Data through R

19 Apr 2023

Welcome to the Royal Holloway Data Visualization Competition Showcase! In this workshop series, participants learnt to clean, analyse, and visualise their data in R.

Jurors could view defendants who don’t swear by God in court as more likely to be guilty

04 Apr 2023

Researchers have found that defendants who don’t “swear by Almighty God” when in court run a higher risk of being found guilty by jurors who themselves swear by God.

International Consortium Launches ManyFaces Project to Develop Diverse Face Image Database

30 Mar 2023

Dr Thora Bjornsdottir and collaborators have been awarded International Partnerships Funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council to collect face images in a reproducible wa

First of its kind study reveals how facial transplant recipient recognises new appearance as their own

28 Mar 2023

A team of researchers from the UK and USA conducted the first ever investigation into how a facial transplant recipient started to accept their new appearance as part of their own identity

How our hearts distort our perception of time

10 Mar 2023

A recent study by academics at Royal Holloway, published in Current Biology, shows how our heartbeats can lead to distortions in our perception of time.

Visual interaction with today's world

03 Feb 2023

Current research at Royal Holloway is helping us learn more about the connections between our eyes and our mental state.

Royal Holloway academic becomes one of the first members of The UK Young Academy

20 Jan 2023

Dr Saloni Krishnan from the Department of Psychology has been selected as one of 67 members of the newly established UK Young Academy.

People’s trust of ‘fake faces’ could make them more susceptible to fake news

08 Dec 2022

Research show that people’s biases in perceiving artificial faces as real can then make them more gullible to information conveyed by such artificial agents.

It’s not just your Ps and Qs you need to watch

08 Dec 2022

Researchers at Royal Holloway tested whether there is something special about the sound of swear words.