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April 9, 2022 jencooklab

Dopaminergic modulation of dynamic emotion perception:

By controlling for interindividual differences in baseline dopamine function we revealed effects of haloperidol on emotion recognition in healthy individuals and investigated potential mechanistic pathways via which dopamine may modulate emotion recognition. Our findings suggest that dopamine may influence emotion recognition via its effects on temporal processing, providing new directions for future research on typical and atypical emotion recognition.

Schuster, B., Sowden, S., Rybicki, A., Fraser, D., Press, C., Cook, J.L. (in press). Dopaminergic modulation of dynamic emotion perception. Journal of Neuroscience — preprint — data & code

April 9, 2022 jencooklab

New paper out now in eLife: Haloperidol comparably affects learning from social and non-social sources when they are the primary source of information but does not affect learning from (social or non-social) secondary sources, providing evidence in support of domain-general neurochemical mechanisms underpinning social learning

Rybicki, A., Schuster, B., Sowden, S., Cook, J. L. (2022). Dopaminergic challenge dissociates learning from primary versus secondary sources of information. eLife. 11:e74893 — preprint — link

November 25, 2021 jencooklab

Congratulations to the newly minted Dr Bianca Schuster!!!

November 8, 2021November 8, 2021 jencooklab

Congratulations to Alicia and all co-authors on their new publication in Scientific Reports on ‘Intact predictive motor sequence learning in autism spectrum disorder’. Click here for the open access version

November 8, 2021November 8, 2021 jencooklab

Congratulations to Jen on being awarded a 2021 Philip Leverhulme Prize

November 8, 2021November 8, 2021 jencooklab

New paper ‘Kinematics and observer-animator kinematic similarity predict mental state attribution from Heider–Simmel style animations’ out now in Scientific Reports. Click here for open access.

Congratulations to Bianca and all co-authors!

November 8, 2021 jencooklab

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Description automatically generated with low confidence — How an understudied trait has skewed autism studies for decades

Great to see work on alexithymia from Lydia Hickman and Connor Keating mentioned in this article in Spectrum.

New paper on “Differences Between Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults in the Recognition of Anger from Facial Motion Remain after Controlling for Alexithymia”

July 27, 2021November 10, 2021 jencooklab

Congratulations to the team, especially first author Connor Keating, on their new paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34047905/ which was also mentioned in this article: https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/alexithymia-not-autism-may-drive-eye-gaze-patterns/

See here for a summary of the work: https://twitter.com/ConnorTKeating/status/1400119684557594626?s=20

Congratulations Bianca!

July 27, 2021November 8, 2021 jencooklab

Huge congratulations to Bianca who has won a JSPS postdoctoral fellowship to research mentalising in autism together with the amazing @AutismWaseda team in Tokyo!

Royal Society Open Science appointment

July 27, 2021November 10, 2021 jencooklab

Congratulations to Jen who has been made Associate Editor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience for Royal Society Open Science (https://royalsocietypublishing.org/journal/rsos)