Veronica Dudarev is a research associate working with Dr. Daniela Palombo, Dr. Connor Kerns, and Dr. James Enns. Her research focuses on social cognition, mostly social perception and memory, in typical and neurodiverse children and adults.

Research interests include social cognition, social perception, joint action, ecologically valid research methods.

See Dr. Dudarev’s Google Scholar profile for a full list of publications.

Dudarev, V., Enns, J. T., Rho, K., Cocquyt, C., Mittertreiner, E. J., Madan, C. R., Kerns, C. M. & Palombo, D. J. (2025). Distinct signatures of social and emotional cues in memory and eye movements. Emotion.

Kravchenko, A., Bagrov, A. A., Katsnelson, M. I., & Dudarev, V. (accepted). Multi-scale structural complexity as a quantitative measure of visual complexity. Perception.

Dudarev, V., Barral, O., Radaeva, M., Davis, G., & Enns, J. T. (2024). Night time heart rate predicts next-day pain in fibromyalgia and primary back pain. Pain Reports, 9(2), e1119.

Dudarev, V., Barral, O., Zhang, C., Davis, G., & Enns, J. T. (2023). On the reliability of wearable technology: a tutorial on measuring heart rate and heart rate variability in the wild. Sensors, 23(13), 5863.

Dudarev, V., Liu, M., & Kingstone, A. (2022). De-evolving human eyes: The effect of eye camouflage on human attention. Cognition, 225, 105136.

Dudarev, V., Iarocci, G., & Enns, J. T. (2022). A Joint Simon effect in children diagnosed with ASD is expressed differently from neurotypical children and adults. Visual Cognition, 30(1-2), 29-41.

Dudarev, V., Hassin, R.R. (2016). Social task switching: On the automatic social engagement of executive functions. Cognition, 146, 223–228.

Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Grant. (2025 – 2027)