Eleanor Palser, PhD
Assistant Researcher
Neurology
School of Medicine

Eleanor Palser, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the UCSF Dyslexia Center. After undergraduate work at Royal Holloway, University of London, and a Masters degree from Durham University, she received her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London. She is a member of the Clinical Affective Neuroscience (CAN) Laboratory and the Dyslexia Center at UCSF.

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Her research focuses on laboratory measurement of emotion and social behavior in neurodevelopmental conditions such as dyslexia and autism.

Education & Training

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• PhD Cognitive Neuroscience University College London 11/2018
• MSc Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Durham Univeristy 09/2014
• BSc Psychology Royal Holloway, University of London 06/2013

Interests

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• Autonomic Nervous System
• Affective Neuroscience
• Development
• Emotion
• Anxiety
• Autism
• Interoception

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• @@EleanorPalser on Twitter (twitter.com)

Publications (12)

Top publication keywords:
Respiratory Sinus ArrhythmiaParasympathetic Nervous SystemAffective SymptomsEmotionsAutistic DisorderInteroceptionReadingPhoneticsNeurosciencesAutism Spectrum DisorderDyslexiaWhite MatterAnxietyDecelerationPeriodicals as Topic

• Expressive Prosody in Patients With Focal Anterior Temporal Neurodegeneration.
  Neurology 2023 Geraudie A, Pressman PS, Pariente J, Millanski C, Palser ER, Ratnasiri BM, Battistella G, Mandelli ML, Miller ZA, Miller BL, Sturm V, Rankin KP, Gorno-Tempini ML, Montembeault M
• Visual and social differences in dyslexia: deep phenotyping of four cases with spared phonology.
  Neurocase 2022 Palser ER, Miller ZA, Licata AE, Yabut NA, Sudarsan SP, Tee BL, Deleon JA, Mandelli ML, Caverzasi E, Sturm VE, Hendren R, Possin KL, Miller BL, Gorno Tempini ML, Watson Pereira C
• Gender and geographical disparity in editorial boards of journals in psychology and neuroscience.
  Nature neuroscience 2022 Palser ER, Lazerwitz M, Fotopoulou A
• Children with developmental dyslexia show elevated parasympathetic nervous system activity at rest and greater cardiac deceleration during an empathy task.
  Biological psychology 2021 Palser ER, Morris NA, Roy ARK, Holley SR, Veziris CR, Watson C, Deleon J, Miller ZA, Miller BL, Gorno-Tempini ML, Sturm VE
• Reduced differentiation of emotion-associated bodily sensations in autism.
  Autism : the international journal of research and practice 2021 Palser ER, Galvez-Pol A, Palmer CE, Hannah R, Fotopoulou A, Pellicano E, Kilner JM

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• Enhanced visceromotor emotional reactivity in dyslexia and its relation to salience network connectivity.
  Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior 2020 Sturm VE, Roy ARK, Datta S, Wang C, Sible IJ, Holley SR, Watson C, Palser ER, Morris NA, Battistella G, Rah E, Meyer M, Pakvasa M, Mandelli ML, Deleon J, Hoeft F, Caverzasi E, Miller ZA, Shapiro KA, …
• The Confidence Database.
  Nature human behaviour 2020 Rahnev D, Desender K, Lee ALF, Adler WT, Aguilar-Lleyda D, Akdogan B, Arbuzova P, Atlas LY, Balci F, Bang JW, Bègue I, Birney DP, Brady TF, Calder-Travis J, Chetverikov A, Clark TK, Davranche K, …
• Neural Processing and Production of Gesture in Children and Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorder.
  Frontiers in psychology 2020 Fourie E, Palser ER, Pokorny JJ, Neff M, Rivera SM
• The role of sensorimotor signals in cognition and its relevance to autism
  Digested Free 2018 E Palser
• Alexithymia mediates the relationship between interoceptive sensibility and anxiety.
  PloS one 2018 Palser ER, Palmer CE, Galvez-Pol A, Hannah R, Fotopoulou A, Kilner JM
• The link between interoceptive processing and anxiety in children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder: extending adult findings into a developmental sample
  Biological Psychology 2018 ER Palser, A Fotopoulou, E Pellicano, JM Kilner
• Altering movement parameters disrupts metacognitive accuracy
  Consciousness and Cognition 2018 ER Palser, A Fotopoulou, JM Kilner