Professor Anthony Atkinson's Outputs (46)

Impact of social context on human facial and gestural emotion expressions (2024)
Journal Article
Heesen, R., Szenteczki, M. A., Kim, Y., Kret, M. E., Atkinson, A. P., Upton, Z., & Clay, Z. (2024). Impact of social context on human facial and gestural emotion expressions. iScience, 27(11), Article 110663. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.110663

Humans flexibly adapt expressions of emotional messages when interacting with others. However, detailed information on how specific parts of the face and hands move in socio-emotional contexts is missing. We identified individual gesture and facial m... Read More about Impact of social context on human facial and gestural emotion expressions.

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, 1, 1–25. 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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
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.

The development of visually guided stepping (2019)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Bodily expressions of emotion: Visual cues and neural mechanisms (2013)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, A. (2013). Bodily expressions of emotion: Visual cues and neural mechanisms. In J. Armony, & P. Vuilleumier (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Human Affective Neuroscience (198-222). Cambridge University Press

Emotion regulation through execution, observation, and imagery of emotional movements (2013)
Journal Article
Shafir, T., Taylor, S., Atkinson, A., Langenecker, S., & Zubieta, J.-K. (2013). Emotion regulation through execution, observation, and imagery of emotional movements. Brain and Cognition, 82(2), 219-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2013.03.001

According to Damasio’s somatic marker hypothesis, emotions are generated by conveying the current state of the body to the brain through interoceptive and proprioceptive afferent input. The resulting brain activation patterns represent unconscious em... Read More about Emotion regulation through execution, observation, and imagery of emotional movements.

Distinct contributions to facial emotion perception of foveated vs nonfoveated facial features (2013)
Journal Article
Atkinson, A., & Smithson, H. (2013). Distinct contributions to facial emotion perception of foveated vs nonfoveated facial features. Emotion Review, 5(1), 30-35. https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073912457226

Foveated stimuli receive visual processing that is quantitatively and qualitatively different from non-foveated stimuli. At normal interpersonal distances, people move their eyes around another’s face so that certain features receive foveal processin... Read More about Distinct contributions to facial emotion perception of foveated vs nonfoveated facial features.

First impressions: Gait cues drive reliable trait judgments (2012)
Journal Article
Thoresen, J., Vuong, Q., & Atkinson, A. (2012). First impressions: Gait cues drive reliable trait judgments. Cognition, 124(3), 261-271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2012.05.018

Personality trait attribution can underpin important social decisions and yet requires little effort; even a brief exposure to a photograph can generate lasting impressions. Body movement is a channel readily available to observers and allows judgeme... Read More about First impressions: Gait cues drive reliable trait judgments.

Modulation of the face- and body-selective visual regions by the motion and emotion of point-light face and body stimuli (2012)
Journal Article
Atkinson, A., Vuong, Q., & Smithson, H. (2012). Modulation of the face- and body-selective visual regions by the motion and emotion of point-light face and body stimuli. NeuroImage, 59(2), 1700-1712. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.08.073

Neural regions selective for facial or bodily form also respond to facial or bodily motion in highly form-degraded point-light displays. Yet it is unknown whether these face-selective and body-selective regions are sensitive to human motion regardles... Read More about Modulation of the face- and body-selective visual regions by the motion and emotion of point-light face and body stimuli.

Event-related repetitive TMS reveals distinct, critical roles for right OFA and bilateral posterior STS in judging the sex and trustworthiness of faces (2011)
Journal Article
Dzhelyova, M., Ellison, A., & Atkinson, A. (2011). Event-related repetitive TMS reveals distinct, critical roles for right OFA and bilateral posterior STS in judging the sex and trustworthiness of faces. The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(10), 2782-2796. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2011.21604

Judging the sex of faces relies on cues related to facial morphology and spatial relations between features, whereas judging the trustworthiness of faces relies on both structural and expressive cues that signal affective valence. Right occipital fac... Read More about Event-related repetitive TMS reveals distinct, critical roles for right OFA and bilateral posterior STS in judging the sex and trustworthiness of faces.

The neuropsychology of face perception: Beyond simple dissociations and functional selectivity (2011)
Journal Article
Atkinson, A., & Adolphs, R. (2011). The neuropsychology of face perception: Beyond simple dissociations and functional selectivity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 366(1571), 1726-1738. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0349

Face processing relies on a distributed, patchy network of cortical regions in the temporal and frontal lobes that respond disproportionately to face stimuli, other cortical regions that are not even primarily visual (such as somatosensory cortex), a... Read More about The neuropsychology of face perception: Beyond simple dissociations and functional selectivity.

Are people special? A brain’s eye view. (2010)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, A., Heberlein, A., & Adolphs, R. (2010). Are people special? A brain’s eye view. In R. Adams Jr., N. Ambady, K. Nakayama, & S. Shimojo (Eds.), The science of social vision (363-392). Oxford University Press

Introduction: In this chapter our focus will be on people as visual stimuli, that is, objects that have a certain appearance and that move in a certain way, and whose said visual properties we can use as the basis for attributing the states and trait... Read More about Are people special? A brain’s eye view..

Deficits in facial, body movement and vocal emotional processing in autism spectrum disorders (2010)
Journal Article
Philip, R., Whalley, H., Stanfield, A., Sprengelmeyer, R., Santos, I., Young, A., …Hall, J. (2010). Deficits in facial, body movement and vocal emotional processing in autism spectrum disorders. Psychological Medicine, 40(11), 1919-1929. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291709992364

Background: Previous behavioural and neuroimaging studies of emotion processing in Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have focussed on the use of facial stimuli. To date, however, no studies have examined emotion processing in autism across a broad ran... Read More about Deficits in facial, body movement and vocal emotional processing in autism spectrum disorders.