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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.

References

  • 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). 
  • Woolgar E, Yegang D, Errington S, Slater B, Ogawa T, Kikuchi Y. Behavioral Effects of AI-generated Synthetic Vocalizations in Free-Moving Marmosets. Proc. IEEE Conf. Cloud and Big Data Comp. (IEEE CBDCom) (2025).