Fayme Yeates

School: College of Life and Environmental Sciences
Department: School of Psychology
Research Centre/Unit: Cognitive Control and Associative Learning (CCAL)

I began my University life here at Exeter, where I discovered the computational modelling of cognitive processes. I conducted my first project at undergraduate level, which involved the creation of an auto-associative connectionist model that could learn and recall patterns in real-time. Using this model I investigated the effect an epileptic seizure had on this stored information. After graduating with a first class honours degree, I remained to train for a Masters in psychological research methods. Not content with just four years in the same department, I am now fully underway on a PhD. Moving away from a clinical application to my research, my interest in modelling remains unchanged and I have been investigating a more sophisticated model to simulate human sequence learning as part of my PhD.

My other loves are quite the opposite of sequences and computers: the arts, music and fashion. I care deeply for the natural world and ecological issues, and have a special place in my heart in particular for the English countryside, British wildlife, trees, woods, goats, squirrels and bats. I love the University of Exeter campus. I am the Captain of a local netball team, and I was awarded the our division's Player of the Year award for 2011. I also play for the University, competing within British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) representing Exeter on the 6th team. I was awarded Most Improved Player award for the 2011-2012 season. I completed my first half-marathon in the Great West Run 2012 and received a bronze standard. I love books, science, animals and my family more than all other things, but the very handsome other half of my academic power couple most of all.