Christine Falter

Ph.D. student

Christine received a Diploma in Psychology in 2004 from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich for her work on the temporal characteristics of residual visual capacities in patients with cortical blindness. Subsequently she became a PhD student at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, funded by the German National Academic Foundation, a Nightingale Bursary and a Cambridge European Trust Bursary.

Her postgraduate research, carried out under the supervision of Dr Greg Davis and Dr Kate Plaisted, focuses on the influence of testosterone on cognitive abilities in normal development and in children with an autism spectrum disorder. Her interest lies at questions of the brain-organizational and activational aspects of androgens on cognitive sex differences and on the autistic cognitive profile.

Christine is also a member of the Volkswagen founded European Platform for Life Sciences, Mind Sciences and the Humanities, working in an interdisciplinary group on questions concerning time and consciousness. Christine is active as a peer supporter, trained by the University of Cambridge Counselling Service and enjoys Yoga and painting in her free time.

Publications

Falter, C.M., Arroyo, M., & Davis, G.J. (2006). Testosterone: Activation or organization of spatial cognition? Biological Psychology, 73(2), 132-140.

Falter, C.M., Plaisted, K., & Davis, G. (in press). Visuo-spatial Processing in Autism – Testing the Predictions of Extreme Male Brain Theory. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.