Eleanor Palser, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow
[email protected]
Fields of Interest: 
Language
Emotions

Dr. Palser joined the Clinical Affective Neuroscience (CAN) Lab in December 2018. Eleanor works with the UCSF Dyslexia Center, studying social and emotional processing in neurodevelopmental conditions, such as dyslexia and autism. To do this, she combines self-report, physiological and neuroimaging methods. Previously, she received a PhD degree in cognitive neuroscience from University College London. During her doctoral studies, she investigated the role of afferent bodily signals or "interoception" in several aspects of cognition and emotion, applying this to the clinical features of autism and anxiety. 

Publications: 

Elevated unanticipated acoustic startle reactivity in dyslexia.

Dyslexia (Chichester, England)

Palser ER, Veziris CR, Morris NA, Roy ARK, Watson-Pereira C, Holley SR, Miller BL, Gorno-Tempini ML, Sturm VE

Expressive Prosody in Patients With Focal Anterior Temporal Neurodegeneration.

Neurology

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

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

Children with developmental dyslexia show elevated parasympathetic nervous system activity at rest and greater cardiac deceleration during an empathy task.

Biological Psychology

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

Palser ER, Galvez-Pol A, Palmer CE, Hannah R, Fotopoulou A, Pellicano E, Kilner JM

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

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, Hendren R, Miller BL, Gorno-Tempini ML

The Confidence Database.

Nature human behaviour

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, Denison RN, Dildine TC, Double KS, Duyan YA, Faivre N, Fallow K, Filevich E, Gajdos T, Gallagher RM, de Gardelle V, Gherman S, Haddara N, Hainguerlot M, Hsu TY, Hu X, Iturrate I, Jaquiery M, Kantner J, Koculak M, Konishi M, Koß C, Kvam PD, Kwok SC, Lebreton M, Lempert KM, Ming Lo C, Luo L, Maniscalco B, Martin A, Massoni S, Matthews J, Mazancieux A, Merfeld DM, O'Hora D, Palser ER, Paulewicz B, Pereira M, Peters C, Philiastides MG, Pfuhl G, Prieto F, Rausch M, Recht S, Reyes G, Rouault M, Sackur J, Sadeghi S, Samaha J, Seow TXF, Shekhar M, Sherman MT, Siedlecka M, Skóra Z, Song C, Soto D, Sun S, van Boxtel JJA, Wang S, Weidemann CT, Weindel G, Wierzchon M, Xu X, Ye Q, Yeon J, Zou F, Zylberberg A

Neural Processing and Production of Gesture in Children and Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Frontiers in psychology

Fourie E, Palser ER, Pokorny JJ, Neff M, Rivera SM

Alexithymia mediates the relationship between interoceptive sensibility and anxiety.

PloS one

Palser ER, Palmer CE, Galvez-Pol A, Hannah R, Fotopoulou A, Kilner JM

Altering movement parameters disrupts metacognitive accuracy

Consciousness and Cognition

ER Palser, A Fotopoulou, JM Kilner