Sarah Bate

Professor Sarah Bate

  • Interim Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor Research and Knowledge Exchange
  • Poole House P112, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
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Biography

I completed a BSc in Psychology at the University of Exeter in 2004, and stayed at Exeter to study a MSc in Psychological Research Methods (awarded in 2005). I also completed my PhD at Exeter in 2009, examining visual scanning patterns in developmental prosopagnosia. After completion of my PhD, I worked as a postdoctoral research fellow for Professor Janice Kay for one year, before moving to Bournemouth in January 2010.

Research

I am a lead researcher in the Centre for Face Processing Disorders at Bournemouth, and author of the book 'Face Recognition and its Disorders' (Palgrave-Macmillan). My current work examines the nature of face-processing impairments in adults and children with developmental or acquired forms of prosopagnosia (face blindness). Much of my existing research has used eye-movement technology to inform this issue. In addition to providing theoretical insights into the nature of prosopagnosia and its potential sub-classification, this work is aiding the development of potential remediation techniques that may be useful in a variety of acquired and neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by face-processing impairments.

Favourites

  • Bate, S., Cook, S.J., Duchaine, B., Tree, J.J., Burns, E.J. and Hodgson, T.L., 2014. Intranasal inhalation of oxytocin improves face processing in developmental prosopagnosia. Cortex, 50, 55-63.
  • Bennetts, R., Bate, S., Cook, S., Duchaine, B., Tree, J., Burns, E. and Hodgson, T., 2013. Intranasal Inhalation of Oxytocin Improves Face Processing in Developmental Prosopagnosia. PERCEPTION, 42, 78.
  • Bate, S., 2012. Face Recognition and its Disorders. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Bate, S., Parris, B., Haslam, C. and Kay, J., 2010. Socio-Emotional Functioning and Face Recognition Ability in the Normal Population. Personality and Individual Differences, 48, 239-242.
  • Bate, S., Haslam, C., Tree, J.J. and Hodgson, T.L., 2008. Evidence of an eye movement-based memory effect in congenital prosopagnosia. Cortex, 44, 806-819.