Staff profile

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.

• 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

• Cognitive Neuroscience

• 2019: Can cognitive tests differentiate Progressive Supranuclear Palsy from Parkinson's disease?(£148494.43 from The Dunhill Medical Trust)
• 2019: Production and Perception of facial expressions of emotion in humans and their closest relatives(£476427.00 from ESRC Centre for Social and Economic Research on Innovation in Genomics (INNOGEN))
• 2009: Travel grant to attend Society for Neuroscience 39th Annual Conference, Chicago, USA(£1386.00 from The Royal Society)
• 2008: EMOTIONS AND FEELINGS(£48123.00 from Arts and Humanities Research Council)
• 2006: NEUROSCIENCE 2006: 36TH ANNUAL MEETING(£975.00 from The Royal Society)
• 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)

• 2023: Associate Editor: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance (APA) - from January 2023
• 2022: Faculty Member of Faculty Opinions: for the section Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuropsychology & Experimental Psychology - 2022 to present
• 2019: Associate Editor: Frontiers in Psychology: Emotion Science, 2019-present
• 2012: Consulting Editor, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance: January 2012-December 2022
• 2012: Guest Associate Editor for the journal Emotion Review: 2011-2012.

Chapter in book

• 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. Over, David E. Hove: Psychology Press. 61-99.
• Wheeler, M. & Atkinson, A. (2001). Domains, brains, and evolution. In Naturalism, evolution and mind. (Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 49.). Walsh, D.M. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 239-266.

Journal Article

• Duran, Nazire & Atkinson, Anthony P. (2021). Foveal processing of emotion-informative facial features. PLOS ONE 16(12): e0260814.
• Atkinson, A.P. & Smithson, H.E. (2020). The Impact on Emotion Classification Performance and Gaze Behavior of Foveal versus Extrafoveal Processing of Facial Features. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 46(3): 292-312.
• Ross, P. & Atkinson, A.P. (2020). Expanding simulation models of emotional understanding: The case for different modalities, body-state simulation prominence and developmental trajectories. Frontiers in Psychology 11: 309.
• Mowbray, R., Gottwald, J.M, Zhao, M., Atkinson, A.P. & Cowie, D. (2019). The development of visually guided stepping. Experimental Brain Research 237(11): 2875-2883.
• Siqi-Liu, Audrey, Harris, Alison M., Atkinson, Anthony P. & Reed, Catherine L. (2018). Dissociable Processing of Emotional and Neutral Body Movements Revealed by μ-Alpha and Beta Rhythms. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 12(4): 1269-1279.
• 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.
• Missana, M., Atkinson, A.P. & Grossmann, T. (2015). Tuning the developing brain to emotional body expressions. Developmental Science 18(2): 243-253.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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. & 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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., 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. & Wheeler, M. (2004). The grain of domains: The evolutionary-psychological case against domain-general cognition. Mind & Language 19(2): 147-176.
• 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. (2002). Emotion-specific clues to the neural substrate of empathy. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25(1): 22.
• Tipples, J., Atkinson, A. P. & Young, A. W. (2002). The eyebrow frown: a salient social signal. Emotion 2(3): 288-296.
• Atkinson, A.P. (2001). Review article: Pathological beliefs, damaged brains (Pathologies of belief, M. Coltheart & M. Davies, Eds. Blackwells, 2000). Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology 8(2-3): 225-229.
• Atkinson, A.P (2000). Review of 'The descent of mind: Psychological perspectives on hominid evolution.'. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, B: Comparative and Physiological Psychology 53(4): 375-378.
• Atkinson, A. P., Thomas, M. S. C. & Cleeremans, A. (2000). Consciousness: mapping the theoretical landscape. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 4(10): 372-382.
• Atkinson, A. P. & Thomas, M. S. C. (1999). What makes us conscious? Journal of Intelligent Systems 9(5-6): 307-354.
• Thomas, M. S. C. & Atkinson, A. P. (1999). Quantities of qualia. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22(1): 169.
• Atkinson, A.P. (1998). Persons, systems and subsystems: The explanatory scope of cognitive psychology. Acta Analytica 20: 43-60.
• Atkinson, A. P. & Davies, M. (1995). Consciousness without conflation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18(2): 248-249.
• Rhodes, G., Brake, S. & Atkinson, A. P. (1993). What's lost in inverted faces? Cognition 47(1): 25-57.