Revealing the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying the visual perception of social interactions

Project Information

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Grant agreement ID: 715824

DOI 10.3030/715824

Project closed

EC signature date 2 June 2017

Start date 1 September 2017

End date 31 August 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 499 672,00

EU contribution € 1 499 672,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
United Kingdom

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (12)

Visual search for facing and non-facing people: The effect of actor inversion

Author(s): Tim Vestner, Katie L.H. Gray, Richard Cook
Published in: Cognition, Issue 108:104550, 2021, ISSN 0010-0277
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104550

How does the presence of a surgical face mask impair the perceived intensity of facial emotions?

Author(s): Maria Tsantani; Vita Podgajecka; Katie L. H. Gray; Richard Cook
Published in: PLoS One, Issue 17(1): e0262344, 2022, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0262344

Young children learn first impressions of faces through social referencing

Author(s): Adam Eggleston, Elena Geangu, Steven P. Tipper, Richard Cook & Harriet Over
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 11:14744, 2021, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-94204-6

Remembered together: Social interaction facilitates retrieval while reducing individuation of features within bound representations.

Author(s): Tim Vestner; Jonathan Charles Flavell; Richard J. Cook; Richard J. Cook; Steven P. Tipper
Published in: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2021, ISSN 1747-0218
Publisher: Psychology Press
DOI: 10.1177/17470218211056499

Ritual and the origins of first impressions

Author(s): Harriet Over, Adam Eggleston, Richard Cook
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 375/1805, 2020, Page(s) 20190435, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0435

Why are social interactions found quickly in visual search tasks?

Author(s): Tim Vestner, Katie L.H. Gray, Richard Cook
Published in: Cognition, Issue 200, 2020, Page(s) 104270, ISSN 0010-0277
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104270

The perception of interpersonal distance is distorted by the Müller-Lyer illusion.

Author(s): Carl Bunce; Katie L. H. Gray; Richard J. Cook
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 11:494, 2021, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-80073-y

Objects that direct visuospatial attention produce the search advantage for facing dyads

Author(s): Tim Vestner, Harriet Over, Katie. L. H. Gray, & Richard Cook
Published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Issue 151(1), 2021, Page(s) 161-171, ISSN 0096-3445
Publisher: American Psychological Association
DOI: 10.1037/xge0001067

Sensitivity to orientation is not unique to social attention cueing

Author(s): Tim Vestner, Katie Gray, Richard Cook
Published in: Scientific Reports, 2022, Page(s) 12:5059, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-09011-4

Are social interactions preferentially attended in real-world scenes? Evidence from change blindness

Author(s): Mahsa Barzy, Rachel Morgan, Richard Cook, Katie Gray
Published in: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2022, Page(s) e17470218231161044, ISSN 1747-0226
Publisher: SAGE
DOI: 10.1177/1747021823116104

Searching for people: Non-facing distractor pairs hinder the visual search of social scenes more than facing distractor pairs

Author(s): Tim Vestner; Harriet Over; Katie L. H. Gray; Steven P. Tipper; Richard J. Cook; Richard J. Cook
Published in: Cognition, Issue 214:104737, 2021, ISSN 0010-0277
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104737

Rapid detection of social interactions is the result of domain general attentional processes

Author(s): Jonathan C. Flavell , Harriet Over, Tim Vestner, Richard Cook, Steven P. Tipper
Published in: PLoS One, Issue 17(1): e0258832, 2022, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0258832

Other (3)

Autistic adults exhibit typical sensitivity to changes in interpersonal distance

Author(s): Carl Bunce, Bayparvah Kaur Gehdu, Clare Press, Katie Gray, Richard Cook
Published in: PsyArXiv, 2023
Publisher: Open Science Framework
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/jsngc

Sensitivity to changes in interpersonal distance: the effects of dyad arrangement and orientation

Author(s): Carl Bunce, Clare Press, Katie Gray, Richard Cook
Published in: PsyArXiv, 2023
Publisher: Open Science Framework
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/r64mp

Neural representations of observed interpersonal synchrony in the social perception network

Author(s): Maria Tsantani, Daniel Yon, Richard Cook
Published in: PsyArXiv, 2022
Publisher: Open Science Framework
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/pjvke