Anthony Atkinson
@SocialVisionLab
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Experimental psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist. I research the mechanisms that allow us to perceive social information from faces and bodies.
Durham, England
Joined May 2019
A new article from my lab: Distinct contributions of foveal and extrafoveal visual information to emotion judgments and gaze behavior for faces
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Researchers including Prof Rob Barton of @AnthDurham1 used innovative approaches to provide the most comprehensive view yet of how human brain size evolved over time 🧠👉 https://t.co/ZjwHBB9DeU
@howbrainsevolve @LeverhulmeTrust #DUresearch #DUinspire
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🚨 How do faces and hands move in socio-emotional scenarios? In our study w/ @zannaclay @MariskaKret @SocialVisionLab and co we used automated face tracking and gesture analyses to study nuanced audience effects on emotion expressions in human adults 1/3 https://t.co/atLpkVS6bu
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My inaugural lecture of last week "Visual Cognitive Neuroscience: Exploring the fuzzy boundary between seeing and thinking" is now online:
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Awarded @The_RPS Award for Scientific Imaging for our work supporting global aviation security .... now coming (or already at) an airport near you! Thanks - collabs and team @comp_sci_durham who worked on this from 'crazy' (2007) to reality (~2020+) ... https://t.co/uX1gp43UwE
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New review paper with @gkovacs1965 @VoiceSRS on familiar face recognition out now! We review recent advances in EEG/ERP research and present a refined theoretical approach. @DurhamPsych @DROdurham
https://t.co/t3rqbKY6On
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Stop cuts on Dutch higher education! - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/aLFIpJD9ip via @UKChange
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Stop cuts on Dutch higher education!
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Excited to share our latest work! We found that preparatory neural activity (the “attentional template”) flexibly represents target-associated objects, guiding eye movements toward likely target locations. @MaelleLerebourg @DondersInst @ScienceAdvances
https://t.co/KVJcdYaxwT
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Preparatory biases in visual cortex reflect attention-guiding objects, supporting search in structured scenes.
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Huge opportunity to work in a beautiful campus with a fabulous PI and exciting projects
Postdoc positions for place and memory research, please share, closing date October 6:
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New in QJEP - Perceptual sensitivity to changes in interpersonal distance when observing social interactions: The effects of dyad arrangement and orientation. Work led by @c_bunce in collaboration with @DrKatieGray and @ClarePress
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In recent years, there has been growing interest in how we perceive dyadic interactions between people. It has been proposed that pairs of individuals shown upr...
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A very nice study and finding, this: Presaccadic preview shapes postsaccadic processing more where perception is poor | PNAS
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I'm thrilled to be starting as Leverhulme International Professor: more info on our new Centre coming soon. We also need a 60% Centre Manager: https://t.co/NZkAS1dzxt closing 23 September)
stir.ac.uk
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Apply now for a 3-year postdoc position in the lab! Please retweet and share with potential candidates. If you're interested in #vision, #EEG, #fMRI, and working with a fun team at the @jlugiessen, feel free to get in touch before applying. Link:
We will soon advertise a 3-year postdoc position in the lab. We're looking for a person that's interested in understanding natural vision, has experience with EEG/fMRI and experience with state-of-the-art analysis methods. Please share and get in touch if you're interested! 🧠💜
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Very excited that the UCLA Social area is hiring. The search is broad (social influence to social cognition to morality) and open-rank (a rarity for UCLA). The search is being led by our newest member of the team, @JaimieKrems. Please spread the word or apply yourself!
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Two new tenure-track jobs at #Dartmouth in Cognitive Science and Social Neuroscience!! And hopefully a 3rd senior TT position this year. Please help spread the word. Here's the posting for the Cog Sci position: https://t.co/hO9ilavSt3
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Fantastic opportunity to work with Daniel and join the amazing Giessen community! 🧠
Apply now for a 3-year postdoc position in the lab! Please retweet and share with potential candidates. If you're interested in #vision, #EEG, #fMRI, and working with a fun team at the @jlugiessen, feel free to get in touch before applying. Link:
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.@sheinalewfrom from @DurhamPsych has been awarded a prestigious €1.5 million @ERC_Research Starting Grant, supporting her innovative research over the next 5 years. Learn more: https://t.co/wlgPclqiAK
#DUextraordinary #ERCStG
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We reached a major milestone this summer when @Alchev_ hit the recrutiment target for our @DunhillMedical project on attention & memory in people with PSP. Thanks to our colleagues at @PSPAssociation and in the #NHS trusts!
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The PSP project reached a major milestone this summer when Alexis reached our recruitment target of 27 participants with PSP and 27 with Parkinson’s disease. We are tremedously grateful to al…
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Thanks @ecvp_ for a brilliant week of science ! I am also grateful to J. Billino and J. Randerath for the idea of a symposium dedicated to recent advances in neurospychology, providing me the opportunity to present my work on PSP & Parkinson's disease with inspiring feedbacks!
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I’m recruiting a research assistant to help collect data in Durham (UK), for a cross-cultural ESRC New Investigator grant aimed at developing culturally grounded tool innovation measures in children across different cultural contexts - please share https://t.co/CFjDKp1ygf
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