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Emotion perception from dynamic and static body expressions in point-light and full-light displays (2004)
Journal Article
Atkinson, A., Dittrich, W., Gemmell, A., & Young, A. (2004). Emotion perception from dynamic and static body expressions in point-light and full-light displays. Perception, 33(6), 717-746. https://doi.org/10.1068/p5096

Research on emotion recognition has been dominated by studies of photographs of facial expressions. A full understanding of emotion perception and its neural substrate will require investigations that employ dynamic displays and means of expression o... Read More about Emotion perception from dynamic and static body expressions in point-light and full-light displays.

The grain of domains: The evolutionary-psychological case against domain-general cognition (2004)
Journal Article
Atkinson, A., & Wheeler, M. (2004). The grain of domains: The evolutionary-psychological case against domain-general cognition. Mind and Language, 19(2), 147-176. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0017.2004.00252.x

Prominent evolutionary psychologists have argued that our innate psychological endowment consists of numerous domainspecific cognitive resources, rather than a few domaingeneral ones. In the light of some conceptual clarification, we examine the cent... Read More about The grain of domains: The evolutionary-psychological case against domain-general cognition.