Staff profile
Overview
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Affiliation | Room number | Telephone |
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Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology | L64 | |
Member of the Centre for Vision and Visual Cognition | ||
Member of the Centre for Developmental Psychology | ||
Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing |
Biography
I am involved in the study of face perception from many different perspectives. Recently, I have become interested in the perception of facial expressions. I also work on hemispheric biases in face perception, the perception of different facial attributes (e.g. age, gender, health and attractiveness) and aspects of face perception related to evolutionary psychology.
Research interests
- Facial expression recognition
- Evolutionary psychology
Research groups
Related Links
Esteem Indicators
- 2005: The 11th European Conference on Facial Expression: Organiser of the The 11th European Conference on Facial Expression in Durham 2005.
- 2002: Invited talk: Perception of facial expressions: Burt, D. M. (2002). Perception of facial expressions: when is a face neutral? Invited talk presented to the Institute of Psychology, School of Medicine, Milan, Italy.
- 2002: Symposium chair “The development of emotional facial expression perception” at the BPS Developmental Section Conference, University of Sussex.:
- 2001: Burt, D. M., Frigerio, E., Montagne, B., Murray, L. K., & Perrett, D. I. (2001). Altered perception of dynamic facial expressions of emotion in alcoholism and depression.: Invited paper presented at a colloquium organised by Prof. Jacqueline Nadel at the Hopital de La Salpêtrière, Paris on behalf of the of the French Ministry of Research, Program for Cognitive Sciences.
Publications
Journal Article
- Ridley, E., Arnott, B., Riby, D. M., Burt, D. M., Hanley, M. & Leekam, S. (Accepted). The Quality of Everyday Eye Contact in Williams Syndrome: Insights from Cross Syndrome Comparisons. American Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
- Ridley, E., Arnott, B., Riby, D. M., Burt, M. D., Hanley, M. & Leekam, S. R. (2022). The Quality of Everyday Eye Contact in Williams Syndrome: Insights from Cross-syndrome Comparisons. American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities 127(4): 293-312.
- Smekal, V., Burt, D. M., Kentridge, R. W. & Hausmann, M. (2022). Emotion lateralization in a graduated emotional chimeric face task: An online study. Neuropsychology 36(5): 443-455.
- Burt, D.M. & Hausmann, M. (2019). Hemispheric Asymmetries in Categorical Facial Expression Perception. Emotion 19(4): 584-592.
- Jucker, J. L., Thornborrow, T., Beierholm, U., Burt, D. M., Barton, R. A., Evans, E. H., Jamieson, M. & Boothroyd, L. G. (2017). Nutritional status and the influence of TV consumption on female body size ideals in populations recently exposed to the media. Scientific Reports 7(1): 8438.
- Boothroyd, L.G., Jucker, J.L., Thornborrow, T., Jamieson, M.A., Burt, D.M., Barton, R.A., Evans, E.H. & Tovée, M. J. (2016). Television exposure predicts body size ideals in rural Nicaragua. British Journal of Psychology 107(4): 752-767.
- Innes, R. B., Burt, D. M., Birch, Y. K. & Hausmann, M. (2016). A leftward bias however you look at it: revisiting the emotional chimeric face task as a tool for measuring emotion lateralization. Laterality 21(4-6): 643-661.
- Robinson, L.J., Gray, J.M., Burt, M., Ferrier, I.N. & Gallagher, P. (2015). Processing of Facial Emotion in Bipolar Depression and Euthymia. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 21(09): 709-721.
- Wiedemann, D., Burt, D.M., Hill, R.A. & Barton, R.A. (2015). Red clothing increases perceived dominance, aggression and anger. Biology Letters 11(5): 20150166.
- Vukovic, J., Boothroyd, L.G., Meins, E. & Burt, D.M. (2015). Concurrent parent–child relationship quality is associated with an imprinting-like effect in children’s facial preferences. Evolution and Human Behavior 36(4): 331-336.
- Martínez-Castilla, P., Burt, M., Borgatti, R. & Gagliardi, C. (2015). Facial emotion recognition in Williams syndrome and Down syndrome: A matching and developmental study. Child Neuropsychology 21(5): 668-692.
- Boothroyd, L.G., Meins, E., Vukovic, J. & Burt, D.M. (2014). Developmental changes in children's facial preferences. Evolution and Human Behavior 35(5): 376-383.
- Sedda, A., Rivolta, D., Scarpa, P., Burt, M., Frigerio, E., Zanardi, G., Piazzini, A., Turner, K., Canevini, M. P., Francione, S., Lo Russo, G. & Bottini, G. (2013). Ambiguous emotion recognition in temporal lobe epilepsy: The role of expression intensity. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience 13(3): 452-463.
- Sutherland, Clare A. M., Oldmeadow, Julian A., Santos, Isabel M., Towler, John, Michael Burt, D. & Young, Andrew W. (2013). Social inferences from faces: Ambient images generate a three-dimensional model. Cognition 127(1): 105-118.
- Stets, M., Burt, M. & Reid, V. M. (2013). Infants Need More Variety - Increased Data Acquisition with Reduced Participant Attrition in Infant ERP Studies. Frontiers in Developmental Psychology 4: 117.
- West, J. T., Horning, S. M., Klebe, K. J., Foster, S. M., Cornwell, R. E., Perrett, D., Burt, D. M. & Davis, H. P. (2012). Age Effects on Emotion Recognition in Facial Displays: From 20 to 89 Years of Age. Experimental Aging Research 38(2): 146-168.
- Boothroyd, L.G., Vukovic, J., Meins, E.L. & Burt, D.M. (2012). Children’s facial preferences across development. Child Development
- Aljuhanay, A., Milne, E., Burt, D. M. & Pascalis, O. (2010). Asymmetry in face processing during childhood measured with chimeric faces. Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition 15(4): 439-450.
- Lau, J. Y. F., Burt, M., Leibenluft, E., Pine, D. S., Rijsdijk, F., Shiffrin, N. & Eley, T. C. (2009). Individual Differences in Children's Facial Expression Recognition Ability: The Role of Nature and Nurture. Developmental Neuropsychology 34(1): 37-51.
- Gagliardi, C., Maghini, C., Germiniasi, C., Stefanoni, G., Molteni, F., Burt, D. M. & Turconi, A. C. (2008). The Effect of Frequency of Cerebral Palsy Treatment: A Matched-Pair Pilot Study. Pediatric Neurology 39(5): 335-340.
- Gagliardi, Chiara., Martelli, Sara., Burt, D. Michael & Borgatti, Renato. (2007). Evolution of Neurologic Features in Williams Syndrome. Pediatric Neurology 36(5): 301-306.
- Little, A. C., Jones, B. C., Burt, D. M. & Perrett, D. I. (2007). Preferences for symmetry in faces change across the menstrual cycle. Biological Psychology 76: 209–216.
- Boothroyd, L.G., Jones, B.C., Burt, D.M. & Perrett, D.I. (2007). Partner characteristics associated with masculinity, health and maturity in male faces. Personality and Individual Differences 43(5): 1161-1173.
- Burt, D. M., Kentridge, R. W. Good, J. M. M., Perrett, D. I., Tiddeman, B. P. & Boothroyd, L. G. (2007). Q-cgi: new techniques to assess variation in perception applied to facial attractiveness. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B-Biological Sciences 274(1627): 2779–2784.
- Little, AC, Burt, DM & Perrett, DI (2006). Assortative mating for perceived facial personality traits. Personality and Individual Differences 40(5): 973-984.
- Frigerio, E., Burt, D. M., Gagliardi, C., Cioffi, G., Martelli, S., Perrett, D. I. & Borgatti, R. (2006). Is everybody always my friend? perception of approachability in Williams syndrome. Neuropsychologia 44(2): 254-259.
- Boothroyd, L.G., Jones, B.C., Burt, D. M., Cornwell, R. E., Little, A. C., Tiddeman, B.P. & Perrett, D.I. (2005). Facial masculinity is related to perceived age, but not perceived health. Evolution and Human Behavior 26(5): 417-431.
- Jones, B. C., Perrett, D. I., Little, A. C., Boothroyd, L., Cornwell, R. E., Feinberg, D. R., Tiddeman, B. P., Whiten, S., Pitman, R. M., Hillier, S. G., Burt, D. M., Stirrat, M. R., Smith, M. J. L. & Moore, F. R. (2005). Menstrual cycle, pregnancy and oral contraceptive use alter attraction to apparent health in faces. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 272(1561): 347-354.
- 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.
- Butler, S., Gilchrist, I. D., Burt, D. M., Perrett, D. I., Jones, E. & Harvey, M. (2005). Are the perceptual biases found in chimeric face processing reflected in eye-movement patterns? Neuropsychologia 43(1): 52-59.
- Montagne, B., van Honk, J., Kessels, R. P. C., Frigerio, E., Burt, M., van Zandvoort, M. J. E., Perrett, D. I. & de Haan, E. H. F. (2005). Reduced efficiency in recognising fear in subjects scoring high on psychopathic personality characteristics. Personality and Individual Differences 38: 5-11.
- Venn, H. R., Gray, J. M., Montagne, B., Murray, L. K., Burt, D. M., Frigerio, E, Perrett, D. I. & Young, A. H. (2004). Perception of facial expressions of emotion in bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disorders 6: 286-293.
- Jones, B. C., Little, A. C., Burt, D. M. & Perrett, D. I. (2004). When facial attractiveness is only skin deep. Perception 33: 569-576.
- Kovács, G., Gulyás, B., Savic, I., Perrett, D. I., Cornwell, R. E., Little, A. C., Jones, B. C., Burt, D. M., Gál, V. & Vidnyánszky, Z. (2004). Smelling human sex hormone-like compounds affects face gender judgment of men. NeuroReport 15: 1275–1277.
- Cornwell, R. E., Boothroyd, L., Burt, D. M., Feinberg, D. R., Jones, B. C., Little, A. C., Pitman, R., Whiten, S. & Perrett, D. I. (2004). Concordant preferences for opposite-sex signals? Human pheromones and facial characteristics. Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences 271(1539): 635-640.
- Burt, D.M., Payne, K.R. & Perrett, D.I. (2003). Perceptual judgements of others' tasting experiences: are they enjoying their food? Perceptual and Motor Skills 96: 445-454.
- Gagliardi, C., Figerio, E., Burt, D.M., Cazzaniga, I., Perrett, D.I. & Borgatti, R. (2003). Facial expression recognition in Williams Syndrome. Neuropsychologia 41(6): 733-738.
- Penton-Voak, I.S, Little, A.C., Jones, B.C., Burt, D.M., Tiddeman, B.P. & Perrett, D.I. (2003). Female condition influences preferences for sexual dimorphism in faces of male Homo sapiens. Journal of Comparative Psychology 117: 264-271.
- Perrett, D. I., Penton-Voak, I.S., Little, A.C., Tiddeman, B.P., Burt, D.M., Schmidt, N., Oxley, R., Kinlock, N. & Barrett, L. (2002). Facial attractiveness judgements reflect learning of parental age characteristics. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 269: 873-880.
- Frigerio, E., Burt, D.M., Montagne, B., Murray, L.K. & Perrett, D.I. (2002). Facial affect perception in alcoholics. Psychiatry Research 113(1-2): 161-171.
- Tiddeman, B, Burt, D. M. & Perrett, D. I. (2001). Computer graphics in facial perception research. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 21: 42-50.
- Little, A.C., Burt, D.M., Penton-Voak, I.S. & Perrett, D.I. (2001). Self-perceived attractiveness influences human female preferences for sexual dimorphism and symmetry in male faces. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 268(1462): 39-44.
- Jones, B. C., Little, A. C., Penton-Voak, I. S., Tiddeman, B. P., Burt, D. M. & Perrett, D. I. (2001). Facial symmetry and judgements of apparent health: Support for a 'good genes' explanation of the attractiveness-symmetry relationship. Evolution and Human Behavior 22: 417-429.
- Penton-Voak, I. S., Jones, B. C., Little, A. C., Baker, S., Tiddeman, B., Burt, D. M. & Perrett, D. I. (2001). Symmetry, sexual dimorphism in facial proportions and male facial attractiveness. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 268: 1617-1623.
- Perrett, D. I., Burt, D.M., Penton-Voak, I.S. Lee, K.J. Rowland, D.A. & Edwards, R. (1999). Symmetry and human facial attractiveness. Evolution and Human Behavior 20: 295-307.
- Penton-Voak, I. S., Perrett, D.I., Castles, D.L., Kobayashi, T., Burt, D.M., Murray, L.K. & Minamisawa, R. (1999). Menstrual cycle alters face preference. Nature 399: 741-742.
- Perrett, D. I., Lee, K.J., Penton-Voak, I., Rowland, D., Yoshikawa, S., Burt, D.M., Henzi, S.P., Castles, D. & Akamatsu, S. (1998). Effects of sexual dimorphism on facial attractiveness. Nature 394: 884-887.
- Burt, D. M. & Perrett, D. I. (1997). Perceptual asymmetries in judgements of facial attractiveness, age, gender, speech and expression. Neuropsychologia 35: 685-693.
- Burt D.M. & Perrett D.I. (1995). Perception of age in adult Caucasian male faces - computer graphic manipulation of shape and color information. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 259: 137-143.