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Biography
Will Penny is a Brain Imaging researcher with expertise in the analysis of fMRI, EEG and MEG data. He uses Bayesian Inference, Dynamical Systems, and Statistical Machine Learning both to develop new methods for neuroimaging data analysis and as models of human cognition. Will joined UEA in 2017. Click here for personal website.
Career
Will Penny has a BEng in Electrical Engineering from Nottingham University (1988), an MSc in Communication Engineering from Imperial College (1989) and a PhD in Artificial Neural Networks from Brunel University (1993). He then worked as a postdoc in the departments of Psychiatry at UCL (1994-1996), Electrical Enginnering at Imperial (1996-1999), and Information Engineering at Oxford (1999-2000) before working at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Neuroimaging at UCL as a statistician (2000), Senior Lecturer (2006), Reader (2011) and Professor (2014).
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
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University of East Anglia Brain Imaging Centre
Penny, W., Coventry, K., Hornberger, M., Pomeroy, V. & Spencer, J.
21/08/19 → 20/08/24
Project: Research
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Effects of a short-term Mediterranean diet on mental health, cognition and cerebral blood flow in UK adults: MediMood study protocol
Esgunoglu, L., Liaquat, M., Gillings, R., Lazar, A., Brooks, J., Penny, W., Hornberger, M., Jennings, A. & Minihane, A-M., 25 Dec 2023, In: Alzheimer's and Dementia. 19, S23, e074649.Research output: Contribution to journal › Abstract › peer-review
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The emergence of task-relevant representations in a nonlinear decision-making task
Menghi, N., Silvestrin, F., Pascolini, L. & Penny, W., Dec 2023, In: Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 206, 107860.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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An introduction to thermodynamic integration and application to dynamic causal models
Aponte, E. A., Yao, Y., Raman, S., Frässle, S., Heinzle, J., Penny, W. D. & Stephan, K. E., Feb 2022, In: Cognitive Neurodynamics. 16, p. 1–15 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Dynamics of cortical degeneration over a decade in Huntington’s disease
Johnson, E. B., Ziegler, G., Penny, W., Rees, G., Tabrizi, S. J., Scahill, R. I. & Gregory, S., 15 Apr 2021, In: Biological Psychiatry. 89, 8, p. 807-816 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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How do neural processes give rise to cognition? Simultaneously predicting brain and behavior with a dynamic model of visual working memory
Buss, A. T., Magnotta, V., Penny, W. D., Schöner, G., Huppert, T. & Spencer, J., Mar 2021, In: Psychological Review. 128, 2, p. 362–395 34 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile6 Citations (Scopus)32 Downloads (Pure)