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Clarissa Wagner


Biography

Recipient of Durham University's Transformative Humanities Doctoral Landscape Award

Thesis: "The newest technology meets the earliest art: using experimental psychology to understand the emergence of art in the Palaeolithic World."

My project combines methods in psychology, namely eye-tracking and functional neural imaging, to investigate how humans visually process some of the worlds oldest surviving art.

Research interests

  • European Upper Palaeolithic
  • Australian and South East Asian Palaeolithic
  • Upper Palaeolithic Art
  • Cave Paintings
  • Experimental Psychology
  • Functional Neural Imaging
  • Eye-tracking