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Dr Anthony Atkinson, B.Sc., M.Sc., D.Phil.

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Member of the Cognitive Neuroscience Research Unit

Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology

Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 43234

Room number: L55

Member of the Centre for Vision and Visual Cognition

Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing

Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 43234

(email at a.p.atkinson@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

B.Sc. & M.Sc. (Psychology), University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
D.Phil. (Psychology), University of Oxford, England, 1993 - 1997.
Lecturer in Psychology, King Alfred's College Winchester (now University of Winchester), England, 1996 - 2003.

Research Groups

Department of Psychology

Research Interests

Social cognitive neuroscience
The emotions
The perception of faces, emotions, and biological motion
The scientific study of consciousness
Conceptual issues in evolutionary & cognitive psychological explanation

Selected Publications

Books: sections

Atkinson, A.P. (2013). Bodily expressions of emotion: Visual cues and neural mechanisms. In The Cambridge Handbook of Human Affective Neuroscience. Armony, J. & Vuilleumier, P. New York: Cambridge University Press. 198-222.
Atkinson, A.P., Heberlein, A.S. & Adolphs, R. (2010). Are people special? A brain’s eye view. In The science of social vision. Adams, Jr., R.B., Ambady, N., Nakayama, K. & Shimojo, S. (Eds.) New York: Oxford University Press. 363-392.
Dittrich, W.H. & Atkinson, A.P. (2008). The perception of bodily expressions of emotion and the implications for computing. In Affective Computing: Focus on Emotion Expression, Synthesis and Recognition. Or, J. (Ed.) Vienna, Austria: I-Tech Education and Publishing. pp.157-184.
Atkinson, A.P. (2007). Face processing and empathy. In Empathy in mental illness. T.F.D. Farrow, & P.W.R.Woodruff (Eds.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 360-385.
Atkinson, A. P. & Adolphs, A. (2005). Visual emotion perception: Mechanisms and processes. In Emotion and consciousness. L.F. Barrett, P.M. Niedenthal & P. Winkielman (Eds.) New York: Guilford Press. pp. 150-182.
Atkinson, A. P. & Wheeler, M. (2003). Evolutionary psychology's grain problem and the cognitive neuroscience of reasoning. In Evolution and the psychology of thinking: The debate. D. Over (Ed.) Hove: Psychology Press. pp. 61-99.
Wheeler, M. & Atkinson, A. (2001). Domains, brains, and evolution. In Naturalism, evolution and mind. (Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 49.). D.M. Walsh (Ed.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 239-266.

Journal papers: academic

Atkinson, A.P. & Smithson, H.E. (2013). Distinct contributions to facial emotion perception of foveated vs nonfoveated facial features. Emotion Review 5(1): 30-35.
Shafir, T., Taylor, S.F., Atkinson, A.P., Langenecker, S.A. & Zubieta, J-K. (2013). Emotion regulation through execution, observation, and imagery of emotional movements. Brain and Cognition
Thoresen, J.C., Vuong, Q.C. & Atkinson, A.P. (2012). First impressions: Gait cues drive reliable trait judgments. Cognition 124(3): 261-271.
Atkinson, A. P., Vuong, Q. C. & Smithson, H. E. (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.
Dzhelyova, M.P., Ellison, A. & Atkinson, A.P. (2011). Event-related repetitive TMS reveals distinct, critical roles for right OFA and bilateral posterior STS in judging the sex and trustworthiness of faces. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 23(10): 2782-2796.
Atkinson, A.P. & 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.
Philip, R.C.M., Whalley, H.C, Stanfield, A.C., Sprengelmeyer, R., Santos, I.M., Young, A.W., Atkinson, A.P., Calder, A.J., Johnstone, E.C., Lawrie, S.M. & Hall, J. (2010). Deficits in facial, body movement and vocal emotional processing in autism spectrum disorders. Psychological Medicine 40(11): 1919-1929.
Sprengelmeyer,, R., Atkinson, A.P., Sprengelmeyer, A., Mair-Walther, J., Jacobi, C., Wildemann, B., Dittrich, W.H. & Hacke, W. (2010). Disgust and fear recognition in paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis. Cortex 46(5): 650-657.
Peelen, M.V., Atkinson, A.P. & Vuilleumier, P. (2010). Supramodal representations of perceived emotions in the human brain. The Journal of Neuroscience 30(30): 10127-10134.
Atkinson, A.P. (2009). Impaired recognition of emotions from body movements is associated with elevated motion coherence thresholds in autism spectrum disorders. Neuropsychologia 47(13): 3023-3029.
Heberlein, A.S. & Atkinson, A.P. (2009). Neuroscientific evidence for simulation and shared substrates in emotion recognition: beyond faces. Emotion Review 1(2): 162-177.
Peelen, M. V., Atkinson, A.P., Andersson, F. & Vuilleumier, P. (2007). Emotional modulation of body-selective visual areas. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 2(4): 274-283.
Atkinson, A.P., Tunstall, M.L. & Dittrich, W.H. (2007). Evidence for distinct contributions of form and motion information to the recognition of emotions from body gestures. Cognition 104(1): 59-72.
Atkinson, A.P., Heberlein, A.S. & Adolphs, R. (2007). Spared ability to recognise fear from static and moving whole-body cues following bilateral amygdala damage. Neuropsychologia 45(12): 2772-2782.
Atkinson, A. P., Tipples, J., Burt, D. M. & Young, A. W. (2005). Asymmetric interference between sex and emotion in face perception. Perception & Psychophysics 67(7): 1199-1213.
Atkinson, A.P. (2005). Staring at the back of someone's head is no signal, and a sense of being stared at is no sense. Journal of Consciousness Studies 12(6): 50-56.
Atkinson, A. P., Dittrich, W. H., Gemmell, A. J. & Young, A. W. (2004). Emotion perception from dynamic and static body expressions in point-light and full-light displays. Perception 33(6): 717-746.
Atkinson, A. P. & Wheeler, M. (2004). The grain of domains: The evolutionary-psychological case against domain-general cognition. Mind & Language 19(2): 147-176.
Tipples, J., Atkinson, A. P. & Young, A. W. (2002). The eyebrow frown: a salient social signal. Emotion 2(3): 288-296.
Atkinson, A. P., Thomas, M. S. C. & Cleeremans, A. (2000). Consciousness: mapping the theoretical landscape. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 4(10): 372-382.
Rhodes, G., Brake, S. & Atkinson, A. P. (1993). What's lost in inverted faces?. Cognition 47(1): 25-57.

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Grants Awarded

2008: EMOTIONS AND FEELINGS (£48123.00 from Arts and Humanities Research Council)
2004: NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTION PERCEPTION (£3900.00 from Human Frontier Science Program)
2003: THE MCDONNELL PROJECT IN PHILOSOPHY (£7202.36 from James S. McDonnell Foundation)