Anthony Atkinson
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
Durham University
United Kingdom
Biography
Anthony Atkinson is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, Member of the Centre for Vision and Visual Cognition, Member of the Cognitive Neuroscience Research Unit, Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing.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 Interest
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.
Publications
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Missana, M., Rajhans, P., Atkinson, A.P. & Grossmann, T. (2014). Discrimination of fearful and happy body postures in 8-month-old infants: an event-related potential study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 8: 531.
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Missana, M., Atkinson, A.P. & Grossmann, T. (2015). Tuning the developing brain to emotional body expressions. Developmental Science 18(2): 243-253.
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Insch, P.M., Slessor, G., Phillips, L.H., Atkinson, A. & Warrington, J. (2015). The Impact of Aging and Alzheimers Disease on Decoding Emotion Cues from Bodily Motion. AIMS Neuroscience 2(3): 139-159.
