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Dr Paddy Ross' Outputs (15)

Virtual First Impressions: Zoom backgrounds affect judgements of trust and competence (2023)
Journal Article
Cook, A., Thompson, M., & Ross, P. (2023). Virtual First Impressions: Zoom backgrounds affect judgements of trust and competence. PLoS ONE, 18(9), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291444

Trait inferences from first impressions are drawn rapidly and spontaneously. However, the Covid-19 pandemic forced interactions online introducing differential influential factors on first impressions. As such, there is an absence of research investi... Read More about Virtual First Impressions: Zoom backgrounds affect judgements of trust and competence.

Turn that music down! Affective musical bursts cause an auditory dominance in children recognising bodily emotions (2023)
Journal Article
Ross, P., Williams, E., Herbert, G., Manning, L., & Lee, B. (2023). Turn that music down! Affective musical bursts cause an auditory dominance in children recognising bodily emotions. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 230, Article 105632. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2023.105632

Previous work has shown that different sensory channels are prioritized across the life course, with children preferentially responding to auditory information. The aim of the current study was to investigate whether the mechanism that drives this au... Read More about Turn that music down! Affective musical bursts cause an auditory dominance in children recognising bodily emotions.

Are Face Masks a Problem for Emotion Recognition? Not When the Whole Body Is Visible (2022)
Journal Article
Ross, P., & George, E. (2022). Are Face Masks a Problem for Emotion Recognition? Not When the Whole Body Is Visible. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 16, Article 915927. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.915927

The rise of the novel COVID-19 virus has made face masks commonplace items around the globe. Recent research found that face masks significantly impair emotion recognition on isolated faces. However, faces are rarely seen in isolation and the body is... Read More about Are Face Masks a Problem for Emotion Recognition? Not When the Whole Body Is Visible.

Building bonds: A pre-registered secondary data analysis examining linear and curvilinear relations between socio-economic status and communal attitudes (2022)
Journal Article
Weick, M., Couturier, L.-C., Vasiljevic, M., Ross, P., Cory, C., Crisp, R., Leite, A., Marcinko, A., Nguyen, T., & Van de Vyver, J. (2022). Building bonds: A pre-registered secondary data analysis examining linear and curvilinear relations between socio-economic status and communal attitudes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 102, Article 104353. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2022.104353

A large body of research points to differences in the communal orientation of people from a lower and higher socio-economic status (SES) background. However, direct evidence for differences in communal attitudes remains scant. In this pre-registered... Read More about Building bonds: A pre-registered secondary data analysis examining linear and curvilinear relations between socio-economic status and communal attitudes.

Children cannot ignore what they hear: Incongruent emotional information leads to an auditory dominance in children (2021)
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Ross, P., Atkins, B., Allison, L., Simpson, H., Duffell, C., Williams, M., & Ermolina, O. (2021). Children cannot ignore what they hear: Incongruent emotional information leads to an auditory dominance in children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 204, Article 105068. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2020.105068

Effective emotion recognition is imperative to successfully navigating social situations. Research suggests differing developmental trajectories for the recognition of bodily and vocal emotion, but emotions are usually studied in isolation and rarely... Read More about Children cannot ignore what they hear: Incongruent emotional information leads to an auditory dominance in children.

Expanding simulation models of emotional understanding: The case for different modalities, body-state simulation prominence and developmental trajectories (2020)
Journal Article
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.

A Dynamic Body-Selective Area Localizer for use in fMRI (2020)
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Ross, P., de Gelder, B., Crabbe, F., & Grosbras, M.-H. (2020). A Dynamic Body-Selective Area Localizer for use in fMRI. MethodsX, 7, Article 100801. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2020.100801

Functional localizers allow the definition of regions of interest in the human brain that cannot be delineated by anatomical markers alone. To date, when localizing the body-selective areas of the visual cortex using fMRI, researchers have used stati... Read More about A Dynamic Body-Selective Area Localizer for use in fMRI.

Removing hand form information specifically impairs emotion recognition for fearful and angry body stimuli (2019)
Journal Article
Ross, P., & Flack, T. (2020). Removing hand form information specifically impairs emotion recognition for fearful and angry body stimuli. Emotion, 49(1), 98-112. https://doi.org/10.1177/0301006619893229

Emotion perception research has largely been dominated by work on facial expressions, but emotion is also strongly conveyed from the body. Research exploring emotion recognition from the body tends to refer to “the body” as a whole entity. However, t... Read More about Removing hand form information specifically impairs emotion recognition for fearful and angry body stimuli.

The Visual Word Form Area natively processes shape sequences: Implications for developmental dyslexia (2019)
Journal Article
Whitney, C., Ross, P., Zhou, Z., & Strother, L. The Visual Word Form Area natively processes shape sequences: Implications for developmental dyslexia. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/vr58g. Manuscript submitted for publication

The Visual Word Form Area (VWFA) is a cortical region that adapts to support fluent word recognition. Surprisingly, the region of ventrolateral occipitotemporal cortex that becomes VWFA is specialized for processing the motion of inanimate objects th... Read More about The Visual Word Form Area natively processes shape sequences: Implications for developmental dyslexia.

Emotion Modulation of Body-Selective Areas in the Developing Brain (2019)
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Ross, P., de Gelder, B., Crabbe, F., & Grosbras, M. (2019). Emotion Modulation of Body-Selective Areas in the Developing Brain. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 38, Article 100660. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100660

Emotions are strongly conveyed by the human body and the ability to recognize emotions from body posture or movement is still developing through childhood and adolescence. To date, very few studies have explored how these behavioural observations are... Read More about Emotion Modulation of Body-Selective Areas in the Developing Brain.

Categorical emotion recognition from voice improves during childhood and adolescence (2018)
Journal Article
Grosbras, M., Ross, P., & Belin, P. (2018). Categorical emotion recognition from voice improves during childhood and adolescence. Scientific Reports, 8(1), Article 14791. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-32868-3

Converging evidence demonstrates that emotion processing from facial expressions continues to improve throughout childhood and part of adolescence. Here we investigated whether this is also the case for emotions conveyed by non-linguistic vocal expre... Read More about Categorical emotion recognition from voice improves during childhood and adolescence.

Body-selective areas in the visual cortex are less active in children than in adults (2014)
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Ross, P., de Gelder, B., Crabbe, F., & Grosbras, M. (2014). Body-selective areas in the visual cortex are less active in children than in adults. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, Article 941. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00941

Our ability to read other people’s non-verbal signals gets refined throughout childhood and adolescence. How this is paralleled by brain development has been investigated mainly with regards to face perception, showing a protracted functional develop... Read More about Body-selective areas in the visual cortex are less active in children than in adults.

Developmental Changes in Emotion Recognition from Full-Light and Point-Light Displays of Body Movement (2012)
Journal Article
Ross, P., Polson, L., & Grosbras, M. (2012). Developmental Changes in Emotion Recognition from Full-Light and Point-Light Displays of Body Movement. PLoS ONE, 7(9), Article e44815. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0044815

To date, research on the development of emotion recognition has been dominated by studies on facial expression interpretation; very little is known about children's ability to recognize affective meaning from body movements. In the present study, we... Read More about Developmental Changes in Emotion Recognition from Full-Light and Point-Light Displays of Body Movement.

A novel hypothesis for the original functionality of the VisualWord Form Area: Processing shape sequences
Journal Article
Whitney, C., Ross, P., Zhou, Z., & Strother, L. (2019). A novel hypothesis for the original functionality of the VisualWord Form Area: Processing shape sequences. PsyArXiv (Preprint Server for Psychology), https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/g3n2m

There is ongoing debate about what characteristics of left ventral occipitotemporal cortex drive development of the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA). We offer a new hypothesis. A summary of occipitotemporal organization indicates that the VWFA falls in a... Read More about A novel hypothesis for the original functionality of the VisualWord Form Area: Processing shape sequences.