Dr Carina De Klerk
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Email
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Location
2.726, Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
I completed my undergraduate and research master degrees in Developmental Psychology at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. In 2010 I moved to London to start a PhD at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College. With my PhD research I investigated how action experience influences the strength of perceptual-motor couplings in the infant brain, and the role these couplings play in the infant鈥檚 ability to predict other鈥檚 actions. My subsequent postdoctoral research investigated the development of mimicry from infancy to toddlerhood. I joined the Department of Psychology at 糖心Vlog University as a lecturer in January 2019.
Qualifications
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PhD in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Birkbeck College, University of London,
Research and professional activities
Research interests
imitation; facial mimicry; action processing; development of the mirror neuron system;
I am interested in the (a)typical development of social cognition, action understanding, and imitation and the brain mechanisms that underlie these abilities.
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Growing in the World (PS102)
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Psychology Project (PS300)
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Research Project (MSc) (PS934)
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Numerical Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience (PS948)
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Theory and Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology (PS949)
Current supervision
Previous supervision
Degree subject: Psychology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 18/6/2024
Publications
Journal articles (21)
Camara, CF., Sel, A., de Klerk, CCJM. and Hanel, PHP., (2025). . Personality and Individual Differences. 232, 112836-112836
Putnam, SP., Sehic, E., French, BF., Gartstein, MA., Lira Luttges, B., De Klerk, C. and et al, (2024). . Developmental Psychology. 60 (5), 916-941
Viswanathan, NK., de Klerk, CCJM., Wass, SV. and Goupil, L., (2024). Learning to imitate facial expressions through sound. Developmental Review. 73, 101137-101137
Filippetti, ML., Andreu-Perez, J., De Klerk, C. and Rigato, S., (2023). . NeuroImage. 265, 119756-119756
Rigato, S., Filippetti, ML. and De Klerk, CJM., (2023). . Scientific Reports. 13 (1), 14091-
Fiske, A., de Klerk, C., Lui, KYK., Collins-Jones, L., Hendry, A., Greenhalgh, I., Hall, A., Scerif, G., Dvergsdal, H. and Holmboe, K., (2022). . NeuroImage. 257, 119241-119241
de Klerk, CCJM., Filippetti, ML. and Rigato, S., (2021). . Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 288 (1949), 20210070-
Holmboe, K., Larkman, C., de Klerk, C., Simpson, A., Bell, MA., Patton, L., Christodoulou, C. and Dvergsdal, H., (2021). . PLoS One. 16 (12), e0260695-e0260695
de Klerk, CCJM. and Kampis, D., (2021). . NeuroImage. 234, 117848-117848
de Klerk, C., Albiston, H., Bulgarelli, C., Southgate, V. and Hamilton, A., (2020). Observing third-party ostracism enhances facial mimicry in 30-month-olds. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 196, 104862-104862
Bulgarelli, C., de Klerk, CCJM., Richards, JE., Southgate, V., Hamilton, A. and Blasi, A., (2020). The developmental trajectory of fronto鈥恡emporoparietal connectivity as a proxy of the default mode network: a longitudinal fNIRS investigation. Human Brain Mapping. 41 (10), 2717-2740
De Klerk, C., (2020). . International Journal of Birth and Parent Education. 7 (4), 33-37
de Klerk, CCJM., Lamy-Yang, I. and Southgate, V., (2019). . Developmental Science. 22 (3), e12771-
de Klerk, CCJM., Bulgarelli, C., Hamilton, A. and Southgate, V., (2019). . Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 183, 33-47
Bulgarelli, C., Blasi, A., de Klerk, CCJM., Richards, JE., Hamilton, A. and Southgate, V., (2019). . Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 38, 100676-100676
de Klerk, CCJM., Hamilton, AFDC. and Southgate, V., (2018). . Cortex. 106, 93-103
Bulgarelli, C., Blasi, A., Arridge, S., Powell, S., de Klerk, CCJM., Southgate, V., Brigadoi, S., Penny, W., Tak, S. and Hamilton, A., (2018). Dynamic causal modelling on infant fNIRS data: A validation study on a simultaneously recorded fNIRS-fMRI dataset. NeuroImage. 175, 413-424
de Klerk, CCJM., Southgate, V. and Csibra, G., (2016). . Brain and Cognition. 109, 131-139
de Klerk, CCJM., Johnson, MH. and Southgate, V., (2015). . Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 15, 1-10
de Klerk, CCJM., Johnson, MH., Heyes, CM. and Southgate, V., (2015). . Developmental Science. 18 (2), 270-280
de Klerk, CCJM., Gliga, T., Charman, T. and Johnson, MH., (2014). . Developmental Science. 17 (4), 596-611
Grants and funding
2023
Public Engagement Evidence & Search Support BabyLab
糖心Vlog (QR Impact Fund)
The role of multisensory experience in the development of body representations
Economic and Social Research Council
2022
Enhancing BabyBrains锟� programme with 糖心Vlog Babylab research to improve parent-baby relationships
糖心Vlog (ESRC IAA)
2021
Copy me, copy you: Investigating the development of facial mimicry in infancy
Bial Foundation
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