Revealing the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying the visual perception of social interactions

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Peer reviewed articles (10)

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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 151(1), 2021, Page(s) 161-171, ISSN 0096-3445
Publisher: American Psychological Association
DOI: 10.1037/xge0001067

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, 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, 17(1): e0258832, 2022, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0258832