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Heiða María Sigurðardóttir - Associate Professor

Heiða María Sigurðardóttir

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School of Health Sciences

Heiða María Sigurðardóttir

Associate Professor

Location
Nýi Garður / Ng-208
Phone
5255428 7800485
Email
heidasi [at] hi.is

Unit
Faculty of Psychology
Website
https://notendur.hi.is/heidasi/

Consultation hours
Office hours: By appointment (please send an email)
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4248-0992
Research portal – Heiða María Sigurðardóttir
Under construction throughout the autumn semester 2023

Published works

2022

The role of visual factors in dyslexia
Using representational similarity analysis to reveal category and process specificity in visual object recognition

2021

Reading problems and their connection with visual search and attention: The search for a cause continues
Words as Visual Objects: Neural and Behavioral Evidence for High-Level Visual Impairments in DyslexiaBrain Sciences
Featural and configural processing of faces and houses in matched dyslexic and typical readersNeuropsychologia

2020

Featural and Configural Processing of Faces and Houses in Matched Dyslexic and Typical Readers
The Architect Who Lost the Ability to Imagine: The Cerebral Basis of Visual ImageryBrain Sciences

2019

Own-race and other-race face recognition problems without visual expertise problems in dyslexic readersVision Research
Faces and words are both associated and dissociated as evidenced by visual problems in dyslexia
Laterality Effect (Face Perception)Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior

2018

Specific problems in visual cognition of dyslexic readers: Face discrimination deficits predict dyslexia over and above discrimination of scrambled faces and novel objectsCognition
Backlash in gender equality? Fathers’ parental leave during a time of economic crisisJournal of European Social Policy

2017

Problems with visual statistical learning in developmental dyslexiaScientific Reports
Lateral Intraparietal Region (LIP)

2015

Expertise and Object RecognitionBrain Mapping: An Encyclopedic Reference
Impaired recognition of faces and objects in dyslexia: Evidence for ventral stream dysfunction?Neuropsychology
The effects of short-term and long-term learning on the responses of lateral intraparietal neurons to visually presented objectsJournal of Cognitive Neuroscience

2014

Shape beyond recognition: form-derived directionality and its effects on visual attention and motion perception.
The neurophysiology of attention and object recognition in visual scenesScene Vision: Making Sense of What We See

2008

On the benefits of transient attention across the visual fieldPerception
Repetition streaks increase perceptual sensitivity in visual search of brief displays.

Keywords for Specialisation:

Science communication

Visual attention

High level vision

Visual cognition

Visual perception

Cognitive neuroscience