My current research interests lie in understanding the brain mechanisms underlying the processing of social signals like faces and eye gaze. In particular, I'm interested in how these mechanisms might differ in developmental disorders that affect social interactions, like Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC). I'm also interested in structural and functional connectivity changes in the brain networks subserving social cognition in ASC and how these may relate to observed behaviour.

My Cambridge Neuroscience profile can be found here.

PUBLICATIONS

von dem Hagen, E., Stoyanova, R.S., Rowe, J.B., Baron-Cohen, S., Calder, A.J. (In press) Direct gaze elicits atypical engagement of theory-of-mind regions in Autism Spectrum Conditions,  Cerebral Cortex. Epub ahead of print. pdf

von dem Hagen, E., Stoyanova, R.S., Baron-Cohen, S., Calder, A.J. (In press) Reduced functional connectivity within and between 'social' resting state networks in Autism Spectrum Conditions, Social Cogn Affect Neurosci. Epub ahead of print. pdf

Bridge, H., von dem Hagen, E., Davies, G., Chambers, C., Gouws, A., Hoffmann, M., Morland, A.B. (In press) Changes in brain morphology in albinism reflect reduced visual acuity, Cortex. Epub ahead of print.

Teufel, C., von dem Hagen, E., Plaisted-Grant, K.C., Edmonds, J.J., Ayorinde, J.O., Fletcher, P.C., Davis, G. (2012) What is social about social perception research? Frontiers Integ Neurosci. 6:128. pdf

Nummenmaa, L., Engell, A.D., von dem Hagen, E., Henson, R.N.A., Calder, A.J. (2012) Autism Spectrum traits predict the neural response to eye gaze in typical individuals, NeuroImage, 59(4):3356-63. pdf

Fairchild, G., Passamonti, L., Hurford, G., Hagan, C.C., von dem Hagen, E., van Goozen, S.H.M., Goodyer, I.M., Calder, A.J. (2011) Brain structure abnormalities in early-onset and adolescence-onset Conduct Disorder, American Journal of Psychiatry, 168(6):624-33.

von dem Hagen, E., Passamonti, L., Nutland, S., Sambrook, J., Calder, A.J. (2011) The serotonin transporter gene polymorphism and the effect of baseline on amygdala response to emotional faces, Neuropsychologia, 49:674-680. pdf (discussed in science writer Elaine Westwick's blog on genetics and genotyping)

von dem Hagen, E., Nummenmaa, L., Yu, R., Engell, A.D., Ewbank, M.P., & Calder, A.J. (2011) Autism Spectrum traits in the typical population predict structure and function in the posterior superior temporal sulcus, Cerebral Cortex, 21(3):493-500. pdf (profiled in the MRC Network Magazine (p.21, May/June 2010 issue) & reported in the Cambridge Evening News

von dem Hagen, E., Beaver, J.D., Ewbank, M.P., Keane, J., Passamonti, L., Lawrence, A.D. & Calder, A.J. (2009) Leaving a bad taste in your mouth but not in my insula, Social Cogn Affect Neurosci, 4(4):379-386. pdf

Passamonti, L., Rowe, J.B., Schwarzbauer, C., Ewbank, M.P., , von dem Hagen, E. & Calder, A.J. (2009) Personality predicts the brain's response to viewing appetizing foods: the neural basis of a risk factor for overeating, Journal of Neuroscience, 29(1):43-51. pdf

von dem Hagen, E., Hoffmann, M.B., Morland, A.B. (2008) Identifying human albinism: a comparison of VEP and fMRI, Invest Ophthal Vis Sci, 49(1):238-249. pdf

Crossland, M.D., Morland, A.B., Feely, M.P., von dem Hagen, E., Gubin, G.S. (2008) The effect of age and fixation instability on retinotopic mapping of primary visual cortex, Invest Ophthal Vis Sci, 49(8):3734-9. pdf

Neveu, M.M., von dem Hagen, E., Morland, A.B., Jeffery, G. (2008) The fovea regulates symmetrical development of the visual cortex, J Comp Neurol, 506(5):791-800.

von dem Hagen, E., Houston, G.C., Hoffmann, M.B., Morland, A.B. (2007) Pigmentation predicts the shift in the line of decussation in humans with albinism, Eur J Neurosci, 25:503-511.

von dem Hagen, E., Houston, G.C., Hoffmann, M.B., Jeffery, G., Morland, A.B. (2005) Retinal abnormalities in human albinism translate into a reduction of grey matter in occipital cortex, Eur J Neurosci, 22:2475-2480.

von dem Hagen, E., Henkelman, R.M. (2002) Orientational diffusion reflects fiber structure within a voxel, Magn Reson Med, 48(3):454-459.

RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

von dem Hagen, E., Stoyanova, R., Rowe, J.B., Baron-Cohen, S., Calder, A.J. (2012) Mutual and averted eye gaze elicit distinct cortical responses in Autism Spectrum Conditions, Organisation for Human Brain Mapping

von dem Hagen, E., Stoyanova, R., Baron-Cohen, S., Calder, A.J. (2011) Differences in cortical response to direct and averted dynamic eye gaze in Autism Spectrum Conditions, Society for Neuroscience

von dem Hagen, E., Stoyanova, R., Baron-Cohen, S., Calder, A.J. (2010) Reduced resting state activity is predicted by individual differences in Autism Spectrum traits across both the typical and ASD population, Society for Neuroscience

von dem Hagen, E., Passamonti, L., Calder, A.J. (2010) The serotonin transporter gene and the effect of baseline on amygdala response to emotional faces, Organisation for Human Brain Mapping

von dem Hagen, E., Nummenmaa, L., Yu, R., Ewbank, M. & Calder, A.J. (2009) Autism Spectrum traits in healthy adults predict changes in structure and BOLD response in superior temporal sulcus, Sixteenth Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting

von dem Hagen, E., Yu, R., Ewbank, M.P. & Calder, A.J. (2008) Autism quotient predicts variation in resting state brain activity in normal individuals, 10th International Conference in Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON X)

von dem Hagen, E., Beaver, J.D., Lawrence, A.D, Ewbank, M.P. & Calder, A.J. (2007) fMRI reveals two distinct neural substrates for the processing of facial expressions of 'core' and 'human' disgust, Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience