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Social gaze cueing elicits facilitatory and inhibitory effects on movement execution when the model might act on an object (2023)
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Michael Wang, X., Karlinsky, A., Constable, M., Gregory, S., & Welsh, T. (2023). Social gaze cueing elicits facilitatory and inhibitory effects on movement execution when the model might act on an object. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218231162546

Social cues, such as eye gaze and pointing fingers, can increase the prioritisation of specific locations for cognitive processing. A previous study using a manual reaching task showed that, although both gaze and pointing cues altered target priorit... Read More about Social gaze cueing elicits facilitatory and inhibitory effects on movement execution when the model might act on an object.

Social gaze cueing elicits facilitatory and inhibitory effects on movement execution when the model might act on an object (2023)
Journal Article
Wang, X. M., Karlinsky, A., Constable, M. D., Gregory, S. E., & Welsh, T. N. (in press). Social gaze cueing elicits facilitatory and inhibitory effects on movement execution when the model might act on an object. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77(2), 230-241. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218231162546

Social cues, such as eye gaze and pointing fingers, can increase the prioritisation of specific locations for cognitive processing. A previous study using a manual reaching task showed that, although both gaze and pointing cues altered target priorit... Read More about Social gaze cueing elicits facilitatory and inhibitory effects on movement execution when the model might act on an object.

Investigating age differences in the influence of joint attention on working memory (2022)
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Gregory, S., & Kessler, K. (2022). Investigating age differences in the influence of joint attention on working memory. Psychology and Aging, https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000694

Previous research has demonstrated that older adults make limited use of social cues as compared to younger adults. This has been investigated by testing the influence of gaze cues on attentional processes, with findings showing significantly small... Read More about Investigating age differences in the influence of joint attention on working memory.

A dataset of EEG recordings from 47 participants collected during a virtual reality working memory task where attention was cued by a social avatar and non-social stick cue (2022)
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Gregory, S., Wang, H., & Kessler, K. (2022). A dataset of EEG recordings from 47 participants collected during a virtual reality working memory task where attention was cued by a social avatar and non-social stick cue. Data in Brief, 41, 107827. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2022.107827

This data article describes electroencephalography (EEG) and behavioral data from 47 participants. Data was collected using a 64 channel eego™ sports mobile EEG system during a visual working memory task presented in virtual reality (VR) using Unity... Read More about A dataset of EEG recordings from 47 participants collected during a virtual reality working memory task where attention was cued by a social avatar and non-social stick cue.

EEG alpha and theta signatures of socially and non-socially cued working memory in virtual reality (2021)
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Gregory, S., Wang, H., & Kessler, K. (2021). EEG alpha and theta signatures of socially and non-socially cued working memory in virtual reality. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 17(6), 531-540. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsab123

In this preregistered study (https://osf.io/s4rm9) we investigated the behavioural and neurological (EEG; alpha (attention) and theta (effort)) effects of dynamic non-predictive social and non-social cues on working memory. In a virtual environment r... Read More about EEG alpha and theta signatures of socially and non-socially cued working memory in virtual reality.

Investigating facilitatory versus inhibitory effects of dynamic social and non-social cues on attention in a realistic space (2021)
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Gregory, S. (2021). Investigating facilitatory versus inhibitory effects of dynamic social and non-social cues on attention in a realistic space. Psychological Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01574-7

This study aimed to investigate the facilitatory versus inhibitory effects of dynamic non-predictive central cues presented in a realistic environment. Realistic human-avatars initiated eye contact and then dynamically looked to the left, right or ce... Read More about Investigating facilitatory versus inhibitory effects of dynamic social and non-social cues on attention in a realistic space.

Selective memory searching does not explain the poor recall of future-oriented feedback (2021)
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Nash, R., Winstone, N., & Gregory, S. (2021). Selective memory searching does not explain the poor recall of future-oriented feedback. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 10(3), 467-478. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2021.01.003

Feedback is invaluable for learning, yet people frequently fail to remember their feedback. Recent studies have demonstrated that people are better at recalling evaluative, past-oriented feedback than directive, future-oriented feedback. This paper t... Read More about Selective memory searching does not explain the poor recall of future-oriented feedback.

Dynamic emotional expressions do not modulate responses to gestures (2020)
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Farmer, H., Mahmood, R., Gregory, S., Tishina, P., & Hamilton, A. (2021). Dynamic emotional expressions do not modulate responses to gestures. Acta psychologica, 212, 103226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103226

The tendency to imitate the actions of others appears to be a fundamental aspect of human social interaction. Emotional expressions are a particularly salient form of social stimuli (Vuilleumier & Schwartz, 2001) but their relationship to imitati... Read More about Dynamic emotional expressions do not modulate responses to gestures.

Increased perceptual distraction and task demand enhances gaze and non-biological cuing effects (2020)
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Gregory, S., & Jackson, M. (2021). Increased perceptual distraction and task demand enhances gaze and non-biological cuing effects. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74(2), 221-240. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820959633

This study aims to improve understanding of how distracting information and target task demands influence the strength of gaze and non-biological (arrow and moving line) cuing effects. Using known non-predictive central cues, we manipulated the degre... Read More about Increased perceptual distraction and task demand enhances gaze and non-biological cuing effects.

A cross-cultural investigation into the influence of eye gaze on working memory for happy and angry faces (2020)
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Gregory, S., Langton, S., Yoshikawa, S., & Jackson, M. (2020). A cross-cultural investigation into the influence of eye gaze on working memory for happy and angry faces. Cognition and Emotion, 34(8), 1561-1572. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2020.1782353

Previous long-term memory (LTM) research found that angry faces were more poorly recognised when encoded with averted vs. direct gaze, while memory for happy faces was unaffected by gaze. Contrastingly, working memory (WM) accuracy for angry faces wa... Read More about A cross-cultural investigation into the influence of eye gaze on working memory for happy and angry faces.

Weak memory for future-oriented feedback : investigating the roles of attention and improvement focus (2019)
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Gregory, S., Winstone, N., Ridout, N., & Nash, R. (2020). Weak memory for future-oriented feedback : investigating the roles of attention and improvement focus. Memory, 28(2), 216-236. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2019.1709507

Recent research showed that people recall past-oriented, evaluative feedback more fully and accurately than future-oriented, directive feedback. Here we investigated whether these memory biases arise from preferential attention toward evaluative feed... Read More about Weak memory for future-oriented feedback : investigating the roles of attention and improvement focus.

Barriers block the effect of joint attention on working memory : perspective taking matters (2018)
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Gregory, S., & Jackson, M. (2019). Barriers block the effect of joint attention on working memory : perspective taking matters. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 45(5), 795-806. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000622

Joint focus of attention between two individuals can influence the way that observers attend, encode, and value items. Using a nonpredictive gaze cuing task we previously found that working memory (WM) was better for jointly attended (validly cued) v... Read More about Barriers block the effect of joint attention on working memory : perspective taking matters.

A memory advantage for past-oriented over future-oriented performance feedback (2018)
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Nash, R., Winstone, N., Gregory, S., & Papps, E. (2018). A memory advantage for past-oriented over future-oriented performance feedback. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 44(12), 1864-1879. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000549

People frequently receive performance feedback that describes how well they achieved in the past, and how they could improve in future. In educational contexts, future-oriented (directive) feedback is often argued to be more valuable to learners than... Read More about A memory advantage for past-oriented over future-oriented performance feedback.

Joint attention enhances visual working memory (2016)
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Gregory, S., & Jackson, M. (2017). Joint attention enhances visual working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 43(2), 237-249. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000294

Joint attention—the mutual focus of 2 individuals on an item—speeds detection and discrimination of target information. However, what happens to that information beyond the initial perceptual episode? To fully comprehend and engage with our immediate... Read More about Joint attention enhances visual working memory.

Understanding the impact of visual arts interventions for people living with dementia : a realist review protocol (2014)
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Windle, G., Gregory, S., Newman, A., Goulding, A., O'Brien, D., & Parkinson, C. (2014). Understanding the impact of visual arts interventions for people living with dementia : a realist review protocol. Systematic Reviews, 3, 91. https://doi.org/10.1186/2046-4053-3-91

Background Arts-based activities are being increasingly suggested as a valuable activity for people living with dementia in terms of countering the negative aspects of their condition. The potential for such programmes to improve a broad range of ps... Read More about Understanding the impact of visual arts interventions for people living with dementia : a realist review protocol.

Lost in art too : challenging perceptions of dementia (2013)
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Gregory, S., & Windle, G. (2013). Lost in art too : challenging perceptions of dementia

Samantha Gregory and Gill Windle report on their evaluation of an innovative project that brought together schoolchildren to work alongside people with dementia on an art project – and changed perceptions along the way