Faculty:Faculty of Science and Engineering
School:Psychology and Sport Science
Location: Cambridge
Areas of Expertise: Mind and Behaviour
Research Supervision:Yes
Helen researches how cyclists and drivers process the road environment, how the brain processes faces, and how we can encourage higher education students to thrive.
Helen is a cognitive psychologist specialising in driving and cycling research and face perception research. She uses experimental psychology (psychophysics, EEG, questionnaires) to discover how to improve road safety. Helen has produced a body of research on how our own face is processed as 'special' in the brain.
As an educator, Helen uses experimental methods to discover how best to motivate students in Higher Education to succeed.
Helen is a member of our Societies Research Hub which forms part of our ARU Centre for Societies and Groups. Her research also comes under our Cognition Group, which is part of our ARU Centre for Mind and Behaviour.
Dr Keyes is happy to supervise research in most areas of visual and aural perception, particularly in the areas of:
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Helen is module leader for Research in Action: Statistical Thinking (Level 5 and Level 7), and delivers the Perception teaching for Learning, Memory and Perception (Level 5) and Mind, Body and Behaviour (Level 4).
Keyes, H., Green, F., Compton, C., & Staton, M., 2019. Short-term cognitive conspicuity training does not improve driver detection of motorcycles at road junctions: A reply to Crundall, Howard & Young (2017). Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour. doi: 10.1016/j.trf.2019.10.008.
Audio cues improve driver safety, The Naked Scientists podcast interview
Face Perception ResearchKeyes, H. and Zalicks, C., 2016. Socially Important Faces Are Processed Preferentially to Other Familiar and Unfamiliar Faces in a Priming Task across a Range of Viewpoints. PLoS ONE 11(5): e0156350. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0156350.
Keyes, H. and Dlugokencka, A., 2014. Do I Have My Attention? Speed of Processing Advantages for the Self-Face Are Not Driven by Automatic Attention Capture. PLoS ONE, 9(10), e110792. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0110792.
Keyes, H., 2012. Categorical perception effects for facial identity in robustly represented familiar and self-faces: The role of configural and featural information. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65(4), pp.760-762. doi:10.1080/17470218.2011.636822.
Rooney B., Keyes, H. and Brady, N., 2012. Shared or separate mechanisms for self-face and other-face processing? Evidence from adaptation. Frontiers in Perception Science, 3(66), doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00066.
Keyes, H. and Brady, N., 2010. Self-face recognition is characterised by faster, more accurate performance, which persists when faces are inverted. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63(5), 840-847, doi: 10.1080/17470211003611264.
Keyes, H., Brady, N., Reilly, R. B. and Foxe, J.J., 2010. My face or yours? Event-related potential correlates of self-face processing. Brain and Cognition, 72(2), pp.244-254, doi: 10.1016/jbandc.2009.09.006..
Education ResearchKeyes, H., Harvey, A., & Lee, E. (under review). Expecting better: Effectively conveying time allocation expectations to students. Submitted to Active Learning in Higher Education.
Harvey, A. J., & Keyes, H., 2019. How do I compare thee? An evidence-based approach to the presentation of class comparison information to students using Dashboard. Innovations in Education and Teaching International. Doi: 10.1080/14703297.2019.1593213.
Keyes, H., Staton, M., Green, F., & Compton, C., 2018. Look-but-fail-to-see errors. The National Road Safety Conference. Brighton, UK.
Keyes, H., & Ray, P., 2017. Fast friends: Speeded processing for personally familiar faces compared to other highly familiar and unfamiliar faces. British Psychological Society Cognitive Section Conference. Newcastle, UK.
Keyes, H. and Zalicks, C., 2016. The social importance of a face affects recognition speed across a range of viewpoints. British Psychological Society Annual Conference, Nottingham, UK.
Keyes, H., Whitmore, A. and Naneva, S., 2016. The use of visual and audio primes while driving. British Psychological Society Annual Conference, Nottingham, UK.
Keyes, H., Dlugokencka, A. and Tacel, G., 2013. Do I have my attention? Our own face may be special, but it does not grab our attention more than other faces. European Conference on Visual Perception, Bremen, Germany. Perception, 42, ECVP Abstract Supplement. doi:10.1068/v130176.
Keyes, H. and Dlugokencka, A., 2013. Don't mind me: Speed of processing advantages for self-referential material are not due to attention-grabbing properties of those stimuli. British Psychological Society Annual Conference, Harrogate, UK.
Keyes, H., 2010. Categorical perception effects for familiar face processing persist for inverted self-faces. British Psychological Society Annual Conference, Stratford-Upon-Avon, UK.
Keyes, H. and Brady, N., 2009. Self-face processing advantages persist when faces are inverted. British Psychological Society Annual Conference, Brighton, UK.
Keyes, H. and Brady, N., 2007. My face or yours? Early and late ERP correlates of self-face perception. European Conference on Visual Perception, Arezzo, Italy. Perception, 36, ECVP Abstract Supplement. doi:10.1068/v070367.
Keyes, H., Brady, N. & Rooney, B., 2007. 'Natural Categories' in self/other face perception? British Psychological Society: The XXIV Annual Cognitive Section Conference, University of Aberdeen, UK.
Keyes, H., Brady, N. and Reilly, R., 2006. Neurophysiological correlates of self-face recognition. British Psychological Society Annual Conference: Student Section, Cardiff, UK.
Keyes, H., Brady, N., Maguire, A. and Reilly, R., 2005. Neurophysiological correlates of self-face recognition. European Brain and Behaviour Society 37th Annual General Conference, Dublin, Ireland.