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Emma Woolgar

Emma is a faculty-funded PhD student. Her PhD project focuses on "Auditory Circuits for Social Cognition in Non-Human Primates". She develops primate models of social cognitive disorders such as anxiety and autism spectrum disorders by quantitatively assessing phenotypic traits associated with the disorders, and developing viral vector approaches to understand the auditory-amygdala circuits. Emma's project also has a strong emphasis on advancing the 3Rs (Replacement, Reduction, and Refinement) and animal welfare.

Awards

  • 2024 British Council Mobility Grant
  • 2025 The IEEE Distinguished Workshop Paper Award

Publications & Presentations

  • Woolgar E, Errington S, Slater S, Morris C, Vuong Q, Constandinou TG, Jackson A, Kikuchi Y. Decoding behavioural responses to emotionally salient acoustic stimuli in free-moving marmosets. Neuroethology of Nonhuman Primates Abstract (2026). 
  • Woolgar, E, Du, Y, Errington, S, Slater, B, Ogawa, T, & Kikuchi, Y. (2025). Behavioral Effects of AI-generated Synthetic Vocalizations in Free-Moving Marmosets. 2025 IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech), 800–805. 
  • Woolgar E, Yegang D, Errington S, Slater B, Ogawa T, Kikuchi Y. Behavioral Effects of AI-generated Synthetic Vocalizations in Free-Moving Marmosets. The 11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud and BigData Computing (2025). (This work was awarded the IEEE Distinguished Workshop Paper Award). 
  • Woolgar E, Errington S, Slater S, Morris C, Vuong Q, Constandinou TG, Jackson A, Kikuchi Y. Modulation of behavioural states in free-moving marmosets using emotionally salient acoustic stimuli. International Conference on Auditory Cortex (2025).