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Biography
Dr. Louise Ewing joined UEA in 2015. She gained her undergraduate degree, Masters (Educational and Developmental Psychology) and PhD in the School of Psychology at the University of Western Australia. Upon completion of her studies she took up a postdoctoral fellowship in the Person Perception Node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders. In 2014 she moved to the UK to take up a postdoctoral fellowship at Birkbeck, University of London investigating face-processing strategies in neurotypical children, adults and individuals with Williams syndrome.
In her research she uses behavioural techniques and electroencephalography to investigate the mechanisms of face and person perception – with a particular interest in how these skills develop in neurodiverse populations.
Indicative Publications
Mares, I*., Ewing, L*., Farran, E. K., Smith, F. W., & Smith, M. L. (2020). Developmental changes in the processing of faces as revealed by EEG decoding. NeuroImage, 211, 116660
Ewing, L., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Farran, E. K., & Smith, M. L. (2017). Distinct profiles of information-use characterize identity judgments in children and low-expertise adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 43(12), 1937 – 1943.
Ewing, L., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Farran, E. K., & Smith, M. L. (2017). Developmental changes in the critical information used for facial expression processing. Cognition, 166, 56-66.
Ewing, L., Caulfield, F., Read, A., & Rhodes, G. (2015). Perceived trustworthiness of faces drives trust behaviour in children. Developmental Science. 18 (2), 327-334
Key Research Interests
Dr Louise Ewing’s research is primarily concerned with the mechanisms driving the development of face expertise in neurodiverse populations. Current research topics include: the impact of strategic information use during face judgments (i.e., what is the most critical information for decisions about things like identity, expression, gender); the emergence of face-related social attributions in early childhood (e.g., evaluations of trustworthiness, attractiveness); individual differences in social motivation and the development of person perception expertise; neural correlates of specialist face processing.
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Teaching Interests
Lecturer: Introduction to Psychology (1st Year)
Lecturer: Psychology: Neurodevelopmental Conditions (3rd Year)
Project Supervisor: Research Project (3rd Year)
Project Supervisor: Dissertation (Masters)
Key Responsibilities
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Director
Keywords
- Cognitive Development
- Face Perception
- Person Perception
- Social Cognition
- Neurodiversity
- Social Interactions
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
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The social side of face perception: insights from atypical development
7/06/17 → 31/07/20
Project: Research
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Breaking through suppression: Face expertise selectively modulates very early awareness of high level face properties
Papasavva, M., Ewing, L., Mares, I. & Smith, M. L., 3 May 2025, In: Neuropsychologia. 211, 109104.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Changes in interpersonal distance modulate social attention engagement: Evidence from EEG alpha band suppression
Veranic, K., Ewing, L., Sambrook, T., Watson, E. A. G., Zhao, M. & Bayliss, A. P., 2025, In: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 20, 1, nsaf008.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Close encounters: Interpersonal proximity amplifies social appraisals
Veranic, K., Bayliss, A. P., Zhao, M., Stephen, I. D. & Ewing, L., 21 Feb 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: British Journal of Psychology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Exploring the development of face recognition across childhood via logistic mixed-effects modelling of the standardised Cambridge Face Memory Test
Ewing, L., Althaus, N., Farran, E. K., Papasavva, M., Mares, I. & Smith, M. L., 10 Mar 2025, In: Behavior Research Methods. 57, 4, 113.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Exploring the development of face recognition across childhood via logistic mixed-effects modelling of the standardised Cambridge Face Memory Test
Ewing, L., Althaus, N., Farran, E. K., Papasavva, M., Mares, I. & Smith, M. L., 10 Mar 2025, In: Behavior Research Methods. 57, 4, 113.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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