Mechanisms and Consequences of Attributing Socialness to Artificial Agents

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (27)

Dissociating embodiment and emotional reactivity in motor responses to artworks

Author(s): Alessandra Finisguerra, Luca F. Ticini, Louise P. Kirsch, Emily S. Cross, Sonja A. Kotz, Cosimo Urgesi
Published in: Cognition, Issue 212, 2021, Page(s) 104663, ISSN 0010-0277
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104663

No evidence for enhanced likeability and social motivation towards robots after synchrony experience

Author(s): Anna Henschel, Emily S. Cross
Published in: Interaction Studies. Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, Issue 21/1, 2020, Page(s) 7-23, ISSN 1572-0373
DOI: 10.1075/is.19004.hen

What Makes a Robot Social? A Review of Social Robots from Science Fiction to a Home or Hospital Near You

Author(s): Anna Henschel, Guy Laban, Emily S. Cross
Published in: Current Robotics Reports, Issue 2/1, 2021, Page(s) 9-19, ISSN 2662-4087
DOI: 10.1007/s43154-020-00035-0

Tell me more! Assessing interactions with social robots from speech

Author(s): Guy Laban, Jean-Noël George, Val Morrison, Emily S. Cross
Published in: Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics, Issue 12/1, 2021, Page(s) 136-159, ISSN 2081-4836
DOI: 10.1515/pjbr-2021-0011

Social Robots on a Global Stage: Establishing a Role for Culture During Human–Robot Interaction

Author(s): Velvetina Lim, Maki Rooksby, Emily S. Cross
Published in: International Journal of Social Robotics, 2020, ISSN 1875-4791
DOI: 10.1007/s12369-020-00710-4

Timing is everything: Dance aesthetics depend on the complexity of movement kinematics

Author(s): Andrea Orlandi, Emily S. Cross, Guido Orgs
Published in: Cognition, Issue 205, 2020, Page(s) 104446, ISSN 0010-0277
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104446

“Hit the Robot on the Head With This Mallet” – Making a Case for Including More Open Questions in HRI Research

Author(s): Katie A. Riddoch, Emily. S. Cross
Published in: Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Issue 8, 2021, ISSN 2296-9144
DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2021.603510

Mind Meets Machine: Towards a Cognitive Science of Human–Machine Interactions

Author(s): Emily S. Cross, Richard Ramsey
Published in: Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Issue 25/3, 2021, Page(s) 200-212, ISSN 1364-6613
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2020.11.009

Social Cognition in the Age of Human–Robot Interaction

Author(s): Anna Henschel, Ruud Hortensius, Emily S. Cross
Published in: Trends in Neurosciences, Issue 43/6, 2020, Page(s) 373-384, ISSN 0166-2236
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2020.03.013

Decreased reward value of biological motion among individuals with autistic traits

Author(s): Elin H. Williams, Emily S. Cross
Published in: Cognition, Issue 171, 2018, Page(s) 1-9, ISSN 0010-0277
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2017.10.017

Learning to tie the knot: The acquisition of functional object representations by physical and observational experience

Author(s): Emily S. Cross, Antonia F. de C. Hamilton, Nichola Rice Cohen, Scott T. Grafton
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 12/10, 2017, Page(s) e0185044, ISSN 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0185044

Anodal tDCS over Primary Motor Cortex Provides No Advantage to Learning Motor Sequences via Observation

Author(s): Dace Apšvalka, Richard Ramsey, Emily S. Cross
Published in: Neural Plasticity, Issue 2018, 2018, Page(s) 1-14, ISSN 2090-5904
DOI: 10.1155/2018/1237962

Shaping and reshaping the aesthetic brain: Emerging perspectives on the neurobiology of embodied aesthetics

Author(s): Louise P. Kirsch, Cosimo Urgesi, Emily S. Cross
Published in: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Issue 62, 2016, Page(s) 56-68, ISSN 0149-7634
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2015.12.005

The Impact of Experience on Affective Responses during Action Observation

Author(s): Louise P. Kirsch, Arielle Snagg, Erin Heerey, Emily S. Cross
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 11/5, 2016, Page(s) e0154681, ISSN 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0154681

Using guitar learning to probe the Action Observation Network's response to visuomotor familiarity

Author(s): Tom Gardner, Aidas Aglinskas, Emily S. Cross
Published in: NeuroImage, Issue 156, 2017, Page(s) 174-189, ISSN 1053-8119
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.04.060

Have I grooved to this before? Discriminating practised and observed actions in a novel context

Author(s): Dilini K. Sumanapala, Laurel A. Fish, Alex L. Jones, Emily S. Cross
Published in: Acta Psychologica, Issue 175, 2017, Page(s) 42-49, ISSN 0001-6918
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2017.02.008

From automata to animate beings: the scope and limits of attributing socialness to artificial agents

Author(s): Ruud Hortensius, Emily S. Cross
Published in: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2018, ISSN 0077-8923
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.13727

Justify your alpha

Author(s): Daniel Lakens, Federico G. Adolfi, Casper J. Albers, Farid Anvari, Matthew A. J. Apps, Shlomo E. Argamon, Thom Baguley, Raymond B. Becker, Stephen D. Benning, Daniel E. Bradford, Erin M. Buchanan, Aaron R. Caldwell, Ben Van Calster, Rickard Carlsson, Sau-Chin Chen, Bryan Chung, Lincoln J. Colling, Gary S. Collins, Zander Crook, Emily S. Cross, Sameera Daniels, Henrik Danielsson, Lisa DeBruine, Dan
Published in: Nature Human Behaviour, Issue 2/3, 2018, Page(s) 168-171, ISSN 2397-3374
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-018-0311-x

Dance Training Shapes Action Perception and Its Neural Implementation within the Young and Older Adult Brain

Author(s): Louise P. Kirsch, Nadine Diersch, Dilini K. Sumanapala, Emily S. Cross
Published in: Neural Plasticity, Issue 2018, 2018, Page(s) 1-20, ISSN 2090-5904
DOI: 10.1155/2018/5459106

Observing action sequences elicits sequence-specific neural representations in frontoparietal brain regions

Author(s): Dace Apšvalka Emily S. Cross Richard Ramsey
Published in: The Journal of Neurosci, 2018, ISSN 0270-6474
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci

Fluid intelligence and working memory support dissociable aspects of learning by physical but not observational practice

Author(s): Dace Apšvalka, Emily S. Cross, Richard Ramsey
Published in: Cognition, Issue 190, 2019, Page(s) 170-183, ISSN 0010-0277
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2019.04.015

From social brains to social robots: applying neurocognitive insights to human–robot interaction

Author(s): Emily S. Cross, Ruud Hortensius, Agnieszka Wykowska
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 374/1771, 2019, Page(s) 20180024, ISSN 0962-8436
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0024

A neurocognitive investigation of the impact of socializing with a robot on empathy for pain

Author(s): Emily S. Cross, Katie A. Riddoch, Jaydan Pratts, Simon Titone, Bishakha Chaudhury, Ruud Hortensius
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 374/1771, 2019, Page(s) 20180034, ISSN 0962-8436
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0034

The Perception of Emotion in Artificial Agents

Author(s): Ruud Hortensius, Felix Hekele, Emily S. Cross
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, Issue 10/4, 2018, Page(s) 852-864, ISSN 2379-8920
DOI: 10.1109/tcds.2018.2826921

Faces Do Not Attract More Attention Than Non-Social Distractors in the Stroop Task

Author(s): Anna Henschel, Hannah Bargel, Emily S. Cross
Published in: Collabra: Psychology, Issue 7/1, 2021, ISSN 2474-7394
DOI: 10.1525/collabra.18521

Watch and Learn: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning from Others’ Actions

Author(s): Richard Ramsey, David M. Kaplan, Emily S. Cross
Published in: Trends in Neurosciences, 2021, ISSN 0166-2236
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2021.01.007

Human body motion captures visual attention and elicits pupillary dilation

Author(s): Elin H. Williams, Fil Cristino, Emily S. Cross
Published in: Cognition, Issue 193, 2019, Page(s) 104029, ISSN 0010-0277
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104029

Conference proceedings (2)

Human-Robot Cooperation in Prisoner Dilemma Games - People Behave More Reciprocally than Prosocially Toward Robots

Author(s): Te-Yi Hsieh, Bishakha Chaudhury, Emily S. Cross
Published in: Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2020, Page(s) 257-259
DOI: 10.1145/3371382.3378309

Let's Talk About It! Subjective and Objective Disclosures to Social Robots

Author(s): Guy Laban, Val Morrison, Emily S. Cross
Published in: Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2020, Page(s) 328-330
DOI: 10.1145/3371382.3378252

Book chapters (3)

Neurodevelopmental perspectives on dance learning: Insights from early adolescence and young adulthood

Author(s): Dilini K. Sumanapala, Jon Walbrin, Louise P. Kirsch, Emily S. Cross
Published in: Progress in Brain Research, 2018, Page(s) 243-277
DOI: 10.1016/bs.pbr.2018.03.010

The influence of sensorimotor experience on the aesthetic evaluation of dance across the life span

Author(s): Louise P. Kirsch, Emily S. Cross
Published in: The influence of sensorimotor experience on the aesthetic evaluation of dance across the life span, Issue 237, 2018, Page(s) 291-316
DOI: 10.1016/bs.pbr.2018.03.012

Learning complex actions through physical vs. observational experience: Implications and applications for dance and other performing arts

Author(s): Dilini K. Sumanapala Emily S. Cross
Published in: Performing the Remembered Past: The Cognition of Memory in Dance, Theatre and Music, 2017