Rebecca Brewer

Lecturer
University of East London

Rebecca Brewer is a lecturer in psychological sciences at the University of East London.

From this contributor

Spectrum Microphone

People with autism can read emotions, feel empathy

By Rebecca Brewer, Jennifer Murphy
12 July 2016 | 6 min read

Explore more from The Transmitter

Illustration of distorted lines of different colors being pulled into a box where they are smoothed in a single multicolored line.
Top essays

The Transmitter’s favorite essays and columns of 2024

From sex differences in Alzheimer’s disease to enduring citation bias, experts weighed in on important scientific and practical issues in neuroscience.

By The Transmitter
23 December 2024 | 2 min read
A curly line connects two pencils that are hovering over overlapping speech bubbles.
Top quotes

Say what? The Transmitter’s top quotes of 2024

“We’ve cured mouse-heimer’s thousands of times...”—find out who said this to a Transmitter reporter, and read our other favorite quotes from the past year.

By The Transmitter
23 December 2024 | 2 min read
Four microphones on a table with speech bubbles above them.
Top multimedia

The Transmitter’s favorite podcasts of 2024

Our picks include a deep dive into dopamine, the role of PKMzeta in memory, and studying the stomatogastric ganglion.

By The Transmitter
23 December 2024 | 1 min read