Dr. Wheatley completed her doctoral training in social psychology with Timothy Wilson and Daniel Wegner at the University of Virginia. After graduating, she received neuroimaging training as a postdoctoral NIH research fellow with Alex Martin, Ph.D. in the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition directed by Leslie Ungerleider. She now has more than eight years of experience conducting functional imaging studies and has published several behavioral and neuroimaging studies on the feeling of will, morality, animacy and emotion. Her current research investigates how the brain infers minds and mental states from biological form (faces) and biological dynamics (voices, music, and movement).