Jeffrey Niehaus

Senior Instructor
Ph.D. 2009 (University of California Santa Barbara)
joined Department in 2010

My main interest is in undergraduate education, and I have a wonderful time interacting with students in my classes. I am, of course, especially excited when I can share information on topics close to my areas of expertise and research. My main focus is on evolutionary perspectives as they pertain to a wide range of cognitive function, and specifically the application of adaptationism to illuminate cognitive mechanisms. Specifically, I am interested in theory of mind, the evolution of cooperation and punishment, and visual attention to evolutionarily salient stimuli.

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New, J., Schultz, J., Wolf, J., Niehaus, J., Klin, A., German, T., and Scholl, B. (2009) The scope of social attention deficits in autism: Prioritized orienting to people and animals in static natural scenes. Neuropsychologia, 48, 51-59.

German, T., Niehaus, J., Roarty, M., Giesbrecht, M., and Miller, B. (2004). Neural Correlates of Detecting Pretense: Automatic Engagement of the Intentional Stance under Covert Conditions. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience: 16:10, pages 1805-1817