A5080520497- Face Recognition and Perception
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Face recognition and analysis
- Facial Nerve Paralysis Treatment and Research
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Motor Control and Adaptation
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
University College London
2020-2024
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
2008-2017
Epistemic trust (ET) refers to in communicated knowledge. This paper describes the development and validation of a new self-report questionnaire, Trust, Mistrust Credulity Questionnaire (ETMCQ). We report on two studies (Study 1, n = 500; Study 2, 705) examining psychometric properties ETMCQ relationship between EMTCQ scores (i.e., an individual’s epistemic stance) exposure adverse childhood experiences, mental health symptoms, attachment, mentalizing general self-efficacy. The factor...
There is growing consensus that accurate and efficient face recognition mediated by a neural circuit composed of posterior "core" an anterior "extended" set regions. Here, we characterize the distributed network in human individuals with congenital prosopagnosia (CP)—a lifelong impairment processing—relative to matched controls. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, first uncover largely normal activation patterns core patches CP. We also document activity amygdala (emotion...
The idea that there are two distinct cortical visual pathways, a dorsal action stream and ventral perception stream, is supported by neuroimaging neuropsychological evidence. Yet an ongoing debate as to whether or not the system resistant pictorial illusions in healthy participants. In present study, we disentangled effects of real illusory object size on pitting against size. our task, objects differed slightly length were placed within version Ponzo illusion. Even though participants...
Using a novel, fMRI-based inter-subject functional correlation (ISFC) approach, which isolates stimulus-locked inter-regional patterns, we compared the cortical topology of neural circuit for face processing in participants with an impairment recognition, congenital prosopagnosia (CP), and matched controls. Whereas anterior temporal lobe served as major network hub controls, this was not case CPs. Instead, group evinced hyper-connectivity posterior regions visual cortex, mostly associated...
Dysregulations in interoception have been associated with mental health disorders including eating and somatic symptom disorders. The present study addresses the feasibility acceptability of a novel, behavioural intervention (InMe) healthy sample low, self-reported interoception. efficacy InMe against an active control arm was tested randomised controlled trial (RCT) reported elsewhere (1), while were assessed parallel are fully here. Participants randomly assigned to or stratified according...
Interoception, the awareness and processing of internal bodily-signals, plays a fundamental role in homeostasis emotion-regulation. Despite this, current evidence does not yet explain how interoceptive abilities develop. Some theories suggest that parent-child interactions play crucial role, however, direct related instruments are currently lacking. Therefore, this study aims to develop novel Parental Interoception Questionnaire (PIQ) assess parental interoception, defined as ability parents...
Abstract Externalizing behaviors (EBs) pertain to a diverse set of aggressive, antisocial, and potentially destructive directed toward the external environment. They range from nonclinical clinical in severity, associated with opposition, aggression, hyperactivity, or impulsivity, are considered risk factor for emergence psychopathology later adulthood. Focusing on community adolescents ( N = 102; 49 female 53 male adolescents; age 12–19 years), this study aimed explore relations between EBs...
Congenital prosopagnosia (CP), a lifelong impairment in face processing the absence of brain damage, is often ascribed to holistic processing. It still debated whether such difficulties are restricted faces or they can also be observed for nonfacial stimuli. Here, we investigate this issue by examining CP individuals and their controls on two variations Garner speeded classification task tailored assess In Experiment 1, participants were asked judge width visually presented rectangles while...
Abstract Aim Schizotypal trait expression and mentalizing impairments represent key factors associated with increased vulnerability for schizophrenia. In the current study, we analysed nature of associations linking specific schizotypal personality features to difficulties during adolescence. Furthermore, examined extent which mediate relationship between self‐reported thought problems. Methods One hundred five community adolescents ( M age = 15.72; SD 1.91) completed a recently developed...
Abstract Childhood neglect is the most common type of maltreatment, ranging from minor isolated incidents to consistent failures in emotional/physical caregiving. It has been associated with developmental impairments and considered a risk factor for emergence psychopathology, particularly internalizing disorders. This study aimed explore individual differences response continuum severity community adolescents, as well role specific cognitive emotion regulation strategies (CERSs) mediators...
Epistemic trust ‐ defined as readiness to regard knowledge, communicated by another agent, significant, relevant the self, and generalizable other contexts–has recently been applied field of developmental psychopathology a potential risk factor for psychopathology. The work described here sought investigate how vulnerability engendered disruptions in epistemic may not only impact psychological resilience interpersonal processes but also aspects more general social functioning. We undertook...
The alarming spread of fake news and the breakdown collective trust in sources information is a major ongoing concern. Public mistrust conspiracy beliefs canchange behaviour way that profoundly alters society’s reaction to new information. However, we still lack broad psychological socio-evolutionary understanding ofthe transmission knowledge: concept epistemic (defined as communicated knowledge) could provide basis for such an integrated understanding. This study examined role determining...
The aim of the proposed theoretical model is to illuminate personal and interpersonal resilience by drawing from field emotional face perception. We suggest that perception/recognition facial expressions serves as a central link between subjective, self-related processes social context. Emotional perception constitutes salient cue underlying communication behavior. Because problems in behavior underlie most, if not all, forms psychopathology, it follows impacts psychopathology. ability...
Herein we examined the ability of perceived social support to modulate recognition facial expressions. Specifically, hypothesised that would serve as a “protective lens”, biasing individuals against angry faces and towards recognizing happy ones. Experimentally inducing failure success in performance task, both main interactive effects support. Under experimentally induced failure, was negatively associated with emotional face expression. Interestingly, also found trend toward positive...
The therapeutic effects of touch have been long reported. However, in the field psychotherapy is exception and talking therapies are norm. Critically, evidence on clients’ experiences perspectives during scarce reliant small samples. Moreover, despite converging associations between attachment, research attachment traits perceptions psychotherapeutic lacking. Here, we utilised largest-to-date, UK survey (N = 39254), identifying 6878 individuals reporting having received psychological therapy...
Abstract Using a novel fMRI-based inter-subject functional correlation (ISFC) approach, which isolates stimulus-locked inter-regional patterns, we compared the cortical topology of neural circuit for face processing in participants with congenital prosopagnosia (CP) and matched controls. Whereas anterior temporal lobe served as major network hub controls, this was not case CPs. Instead, group evinced hyper-connectivity posterior regions visual cortex, mostly associated lateral occipital...
Self-efficacy, pertaining to individuals' belief in their capabilities, epitomizes resilience. Drawing from the literature on cognitive-emotional processing of facial expression, we hypothesized that self-efficacious individuals, propelled by positive representations others, will show a bias towards happy expressions. In Study 1 (N = 70), general self-efficacy was distinctly associated with perception 2 92), self-efficacy, but neither domain-specific nor self-esteem, predicted toward...
Abstract There is growing concern about the impact of declining political trust on democracies. Psychological research has introduced concept epistemic (mis)trust as a stable disposition acquired through development, which may influence our sociopolitical engagement. Given trust’s prominence in current politics, we examined relationship between and people’s choices (un)trustworthy leaders. In two representative samples UK US ( N = 1096), tested whether predicts leader three dimensions:...
Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) is crucial for enhancing research quality, relevance, addressing health inequalities. PPI ensures that studies tackle relevant meaningful questions, have a design methodology are feasible acceptable, build trust engagement in among marginalised communities. However, the need to share specific instances of advance field encourage adoption such activities by community still remains. The aim this paper provide detailed report on undertaken co-design...
BackgroundInteroception, the sensing, awareness and regulation of physiological states, is crucial for wellbeing mental health. Behavioural interventions targeting interoception exist, but Randomised Control Trials (RCTs) testing efficacy remain limited. The present, preregistered (ISRCTN16762367) RCT tested novel Interoceptive iNsight Metacognitive Efficacy beliefs (InMe) intervention. InMe uses slow-breathing cardiac biofeedback during stress to train interoceptive self-efficacy improve...