Gina Rippon is Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Neuroimaging at the Aston Brain Centre, Birmingham. Her research involves state-of-the-art brain imaging techniques, investigating how the brain interacts with its world. She is an outspoken critic of outdated gender stereotypes in the field, and is the author of The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain and The Lost Girls of Autism: The Untold Story of Women on the Spectrum.