Staff profile

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.

• Facial expression recognition
• Evolutionary psychology

• Cognitive Neuroscience

• DUO portfolio

• 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.

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.