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Incidental visual processing of spatiotemporal cues in communicative interactions: An fMRI investigation (2023)
Journal Article
Atkinson, A. P., & Vuong, Q. C. (2023). Incidental visual processing of spatiotemporal cues in communicative interactions: An fMRI investigation. Imaging Neuroscience, https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00048

The interpretation of social interactions between people is important in many daily situations. The coordination of the relative body movements between them may provide visual cues that observers use without attention to discriminate such social inte... Read More about Incidental visual processing of spatiotemporal cues in communicative interactions: An fMRI investigation.

Friendship habits questionnaire: A measure of group- versus dyadic-oriented socializing styles (2023)
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Howlett, P., Baysu, G., Atkinson, A. P., Jungert, T., & Rychlowska, M. (2023). Friendship habits questionnaire: A measure of group- versus dyadic-oriented socializing styles. PLoS ONE, 18(6), Article e0285767. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0285767

Friendships are central to our social lives, yet little is known about individual differences associated with the number of friends people enjoy spending time with. Here we present the Friendship Habits Questionnaire (FHQ), a new scale of group versu... Read More about Friendship habits questionnaire: A measure of group- versus dyadic-oriented socializing styles.

Foveal processing of emotion-informative facial features (2021)
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Duran, N., & Atkinson, A. P. (2021). Foveal processing of emotion-informative facial features. PLoS ONE, 16(12), Article e0260814. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260814

Certain facial features provide useful information for recognition of facial expressions. In two experiments, we investigated whether foveating informative features of briefly presented expressions improves recognition accuracy and whether these feat... Read More about Foveal processing of emotion-informative facial features.

The Impact on Emotion Classification Performance and Gaze Behavior of Foveal versus Extrafoveal Processing of Facial Features (2020)
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Atkinson, A., & Smithson, H. (2020). The Impact on Emotion Classification Performance and Gaze Behavior of Foveal versus Extrafoveal Processing of Facial Features. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 46(3), 292-312. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000712

At normal interpersonal distances all features of a face cannot fall within one’s fovea simultaneously. Given that certain facial features are differentially informative of different emotions, does the ability to identify facially expressed emotions... Read More about The Impact on Emotion Classification Performance and Gaze Behavior of Foveal versus Extrafoveal Processing of Facial Features.

Expanding simulation models of emotional understanding: The case for different modalities, body-state simulation prominence and developmental trajectories (2020)
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Ross, P., & Atkinson, A. (2020). Expanding simulation models of emotional understanding: The case for different modalities, body-state simulation prominence and developmental trajectories. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00309

Recent models of emotion recognition suggest that when people perceive an emotional expression, they partially activate the respective emotion in themselves, providing a basis for the recognition of that emotion. Much of the focus of these models and... Read More about Expanding simulation models of emotional understanding: The case for different modalities, body-state simulation prominence and developmental trajectories.

The development of visually guided stepping (2019)
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Mowbray, R., Gottwald, J., Zhao, M., Atkinson, A., & Cowie, D. (2019). The development of visually guided stepping. Experimental Brain Research, 237(11), 2875-2883. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-019-05629-5

Adults use vision during stepping and walking to fine-tune foot placement. However, the developmental profile of visually guided stepping is unclear. We asked (1) whether children use online vision to fine-tune precise steps and (2) whether preci- si... Read More about The development of visually guided stepping.

Dissociable Processing of Emotional and Neutral Body Movements Revealed by μ-Alpha and Beta Rhythms (2018)
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Siqi-Liu, A., Harris, A. M., Atkinson, A. P., & Reed, C. L. (2018). Dissociable Processing of Emotional and Neutral Body Movements Revealed by μ-Alpha and Beta Rhythms. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12(4), 1269-1279. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsy094

Both when actions are executed and observed, electroencephalography (EEG) has shown reduced alpha-band (8–12 Hz) oscillations over sensorimotor cortex. This ‘μ-alpha’ suppression is thought to reflect mental simulation of action, which has been argue... Read More about Dissociable Processing of Emotional and Neutral Body Movements Revealed by μ-Alpha and Beta Rhythms.

The Impact of Aging and Alzheimers Disease on Decoding Emotion Cues from Bodily Motion (2015)
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Insch, P., Slessor, G., Phillips, L., Atkinson, A., & Warrington, J. (2015). The Impact of Aging and Alzheimers Disease on Decoding Emotion Cues from Bodily Motion. AIMS Neuroscience, 2(3), 139-159. https://doi.org/10.3934/neuroscience.2015.3.139

Both healthy aging and dementia cause problems with emotion perception, and the impairment is generally greater for specific emotions (anger, sadness and fear). Most studies to date have focused on static facial photographs of emotions. The current s... Read More about The Impact of Aging and Alzheimers Disease on Decoding Emotion Cues from Bodily Motion.

Discrimination of fearful and happy body postures in 8-month-old infants: an event-related potential study (2014)
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Missana, M., Rajhans, P., Atkinson, A., & Grossmann, T. (2014). Discrimination of fearful and happy body postures in 8-month-old infants: an event-related potential study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00531

Responding to others’ emotional body expressions is an essential social skill in humans. Adults readily detect emotions from body postures, but it is unclear whether infants are sensitive to emotional body postures. We examined 8-month-old infants’ b... Read More about Discrimination of fearful and happy body postures in 8-month-old infants: an event-related potential study.

Tuning the developing brain to emotional body expressions (2014)
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Missana, M., Atkinson, A., & Grossmann, T. (2015). Tuning the developing brain to emotional body expressions. Developmental Science, 18(2), 243-253. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12209

Reading others’ emotional body expressions is an essential social skill. Adults readily recognize emotions from body movements. However, it is unclear when in development infants become sensitive to bodily expressed emotions. We examined event-relate... Read More about Tuning the developing brain to emotional body expressions.