Personal profile
Personal profile
I am a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL) in the United Kingdom. My lab studies social perception and decision making, with an emphasis on face perception and brain imaging analysis techniques.
I studied undergraduate Psychology at the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign, obtained a Ph.D. in Cognition and Neuroscience from UT Dallas and did postdoctoral work at University College London (The FIL and Computer Science) and at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Before RHUL, I was appointed at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, UK.
More information at http://pc.rhul.ac.uk/sites/FurlLab/
Follow the lab on Twitter at @FurlLab
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Posterior parietal cortex modulates perceptual decisions depending on psychotic phenotype
Scaramozzino, F., McKay, R. & Furl, N., 15 Feb 2026, In: Neuropsychologia. 222, 109348.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Signal discrimination in the psychotic phenotype: increased sensory precision and reduced decision threshold associated with psychotic-like experiences
Scaramozzino, F., McKay, R. & Furl, N., 12 Nov 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Cognitive Neuropsychiatry. 30, 4, p. 273-294 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Stochastic decisions support optimal foraging of volatile environments, and are disrupted by anxiety
Lloyd, A., McKay, R. & Furl, N., 9 Jan 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience. 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Biased expectations about future choice options predict sequential economic decisions
van de Wouw, D. S., McKay, R. T. & Furl, N., 18 Dec 2024, In: Communications Psychology. 2, 18 p., 119.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The paradox of delusions: Are deluded individuals resistant to evidence?
Furl, N., Coltheart, M. & McKay, R., 18 Jan 2024, Belief, Imagination, and Delusion. Sullivan-Bissett, E. (ed.). Oxford: Oxford Univerity Press; Oxford, p. 240-265Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Open Access
Projects
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What mechanisms and computations does the brain use to solve complex decision problems?
Furl, N. (PI)
1/07/21 → 30/06/23
Project: Research
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How do brains encode the distinctive movements of facial expressions?
Furl, N. (PI)
1/06/17 → 31/03/18
Project: Research
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Neural Representation of the Identities and Expressions of Human Faces
Furl, N. (PI)
Economic & Social Res Coun ESRC
2/06/14 → 1/12/15
Project: Research
Datasets
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Animated caricatures fMRI study
Furl, N. (Creator), Royal Holloway, University of London, 2020
https://openneuro.org/datasets/ds002509
Dataset