List of Cook Lab publications
Under Review
Connor T. Keating, Sophie Sowden, Holly O’Donoghue, Jennifer L. Cook. Mismatching expressions: Spatiotemporal and kinematic differences in autistic and non-autistic facial expressions — preprint
Connor T. Keating, Carmen Kraaijkamp, Jennifer L. Cook. The conceptualisation, experience and recognition of emotion in autism: Differences in the psychological mechanisms involved in autistic and non-autistic emotion recognition — preprint
Cuve, H., Sowden-Carvalho, S., Cook., J.L. (under review). Spatiotemporal structure and substates in facial expressions and speech movements — preprint
Lee., K., Rybicki., A., Cook., J.L., Catmur, C., & Bird., G. (under review). Stochastic Choices Following Learning of Emotion and Non-Emotion Concepts in Alexithymia are Associated with Co-Occurring Anxiety.
Keating & Cook. (under review). Facial movements as biomarkers for autism: A Bayesian prevalence and machine-learning proof-of-concept study. — preprint
Hickman, Fraser, Galea, Happé, & Cook. (under review). An Assessment of Autistic and Parkinsonian Movement Profiles to Inform Selective Classification Algorithms
Cook, J. L., Fraser, D. S., Hickman, L. J., Brewer, R., & Huh, D. (under review). Autistic kinematics diverge from the power laws that typically govern movement — preprint
Hickman, L. J., Keating, C. T., Cook, J. L., & Ludvig, E. A. (pre-print). No convincing evidence for differences between autistic and non-autistic adults in social influence on risky decision-making — data & analysis scripts — preprint
2025
Traniello, Avalos, Gachomba, Gernat, Chen, Cash-Ahmed, Hamilton, Cook & Robinson. (in press) Molecular analyses of individual variation in honey bee sociability. PLoS Biology — preprint
Hickman, L. J., & Cook, J. L. (2025). High rate of Parkinson’s disease diagnosis in the autistic population: True co-occurrence or a product of overlapping traits? Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews — link to paper
Fraser, D.S., Di Luca, M., & Cook, J.L. (2025). Biological kinematics: a detailed review of the velocity-curvature power law calculation. Experimental Brain Research. — link to paper
Schuster B.A., Okamoto, Y., Takahashi, T., Kurihara, Y., Keating, C., Cook, J.L., Kosaka H., Ide, M., Naruse, H., Kraaijkamp, C., Osu, R. (in press). A cross-cultural examination of bi-directional mentalising in autistic and non-autistic adults. Molecular Autism. — preprint
Keating, C., & Cook, J.L., (2025). Pathways to emotion recognition difficulties: Insights from the Inside Out Model of Emotion Recognition. BPS Cognitive Section Annual Paper Prize Award article. Cognitive Psychology Bulletin, 10, 6-9.
2024
Guerts, D.E.M., den Ouden, H.E.M., Swart, J.C., Froböse, M.I., Fallon, S.J., Cook, J. L., Cools, R. (2024). Methylphenidate enhances or impairs the cognitive control of Pavlovian bias depending on working memory capacity. eLife, 13:RP98917 — preprint
Hickman, L. J., Sowden, S. L., Fraser, D. S., Schuster, B. A., Rybicki, A. J., Galea, J. M., & Cook, J. L. (2024). Dopaminergic manipulations affect the modulation and meta-modulation of movement speed: evidence from two pharmacological interventions. Behavioural Brain Research, 474(1), 115213 — preprint — link to paper
Schuster, B., Sowden, S., Rybicki, A., Fraser, D., Press, C., Hickman, L., Holland, P., Cook, J.L. (2024). Disruption of dopamine D2/D3 system function impairs the human ability to understand the mental states of other people. PLoS Biology, 22(6), e3002652 — preprint — link to paper — discussion article in The Conversation
Keating, C. T., Hickman, L., Geelhand, P., Takahashi, T., Schuster, B., Rybicki, A., … & Sowden, S. (2024). Cross-cultural variation in experiences of acceptance, camouflaging and mental health difficulties in autism: A registered report. PLoS ONE, 19(3), e0299824 — preprint — link to paper
2023
Keating, C. T., & Cook, J. L. (2023). The inside out model of emotion recognition: How the shape of one’s internal emotional landscape influences the recognition of others’ emotions. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 21490 — link to paper
Keating, C. T., Ichijo, E., & Cook, J. L. (2023). Autistic adults exhibit highly precise representations of others’ emotions but a reduced influence of emotion representations on emotion recognition accuracy. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 11875 — link to paper
Keating, C. T. & Cook, J. L., (2023) Sadness, sorrow or despair: Improving existing tasks assessing emotional granularity. PsyPAG Quarterly, (124) — preprint — link to paper
Van Schie, C., Cook, J., Elzinga, B., & Ly, V. (2023). A boost in self-esteem after positive social feedback predicts increased social learning. Royal Society Open Science, 10(5) — preprint — link to paper
Keating, C. T., & Cook, J. L. (2023). ExpressionMap: A novel method for indexing features of visual emotion representations. Cognitive Psychology Bulletin, 8, 47-50 — link to paper
Hickman, L. J., Fraser, D. S., & Cook, J. L. (2023). Parkinson’s medications do not affect movement smoothness in fine motor control: limitations of medication and importance of measurement. Cognitive Psychology Bulletin, 1(8), 40-42 — accepted version
Cook, J. L., & Robinson, G. E. (2023). Comparative genomics and the roots of human behavior. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 27(3), 230-232 — link to paper
Keating, C. T., & Cook, J. L. (2023). EmoMap: An emotional granularity task without labels Abstracts from the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Society for Affective Science_Health. Affective Science (2023), 4, 210-222 — link to paper
2022
Keating, C., & Cook, J. (2022). It’s all in the mind: linking internal representations of emotion with facial expression recognition. Cognitive Psychology Bulletin, (7), 61-63. — link to paper — open access version
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 to paper — Commentary in eLife Insight
Schuster, B., Sowden, S., Rybicki, A., Fraser, D., Holland, P., Press, C., Cook, J.L. (2022). Dopaminergic modulation of dynamic emotion perception. Journal of Neuroscience, 42(21), 4394-4400 — preprint — data & code — link to paper
Alabdulaali, L., Hickman, L. J., Punt, T. D., & Jenkinson, N. (2022). Effectiveness of transcranial direct current stimulation on hand dexterity in stroke patients: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ Open, 12(2), e056064 — link to paper
2021
Keating, C. T., Sowden, S., & Cook, J. L. (2021). Comparing internal representations of facial expression kinematics between autistic and non-autistic adults. Autism Research, 15(3), 493-506 —preprint — data & analysis scripts — link to paper
Keating, Hickman, Geelhand, Takahashi, Leung, Schuster, Rybicki, Girolamo, Clin, Papastamou, Belenger, Eigsti, Cook, Kosaka, Osu, Okamoto, & Sowden (2021). Global perspectives on autism acceptance, camouflaging behaviours and mental health in autism spectrum disorder: A registered report protocol. PLoS ONE, 16(12), e0261774 — link to paper
Rybicki, A., Galea, J., Schuster, B., Hiles, C., Fabian, C., Cook, J. L. (2021). Intact Predictive Motor Sequence Learning in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Scientific Reports, 11, 20693 — preprint — link to paper
Schuster, B., Fraser, D. S., van den Bosch, J., Sowden, S., Gordon, A., Hu, B., & Cook, J.L., (2021). Kinematics and observer-animator kinematic similarity predict mental state attribution from Heider-Simmel style animations. Scientific Reports, 11, 18266 — preprint — link to paper
Keating, C. T., Fraser, D. S., Sowden, S., & Cook, J. L. (2021). Differences between autistic and non-autistic individuals in the recognition of anger from facial motion remain after controlling for alexithymia. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 52, 1855-1871 — preprint — pdf — link to paper
Kandroodi, M. R., Cook, J.L., Swart, J., Froböse, M., Geurts, D., Vahabie, A., Ahmadabadi, M.N., Cools, R., den Ouden, H.E.M. (2021). Effects of methylphenidate on reinforcement learning depend on working memory capacity. Psychopharmacology, 283(12), 3569-3584 — preprint — link to paper
Hickman, L. J., Keating, C. T., Ferrari, A., & Cook, J. L. (2021). Skin conductance responses as an index of alexithymic traits in the general population. Psychological Reports, 125(3) — data & analysis scripts — link to paper
Sowden, S., Schuster, B. A., Fraser, D.S., Keating, C., & Cook, J. L. (2021). The role of movement kinematics in facial emotion expression production and recognition. Emotion, 21(5), 1041-1061 — data & stimuli — pdf— link to paper
Hickman, L. J., Seyedsalehi, A., Cook, J. L, Bird, G., Murphy, J. (2021). The relationship between Heartbeat Counting and Heartbeat Discrimination: a meta-analysis. Biological Psychology, 156, 107949 — pdf — code — link to paper
2020
Lambrechts, A., Cook, J., Anns, S., Taylor, M., Alonso, E., Ludvig, E., & Gaigg, S. (2020). Reward devaluation in autistic children and adolescents with complex needs: a feasibility study. Autism Research, 13(11), 1915-1928 — pdf — link to paper
Keating, C. T., & Cook, J. L., (2020). Facial Expression Production and Recognition in Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Shifting Landscape. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics, 29(3), 557-571 — Epub ahead of print — pdf — ‘The Conversation’ jargon-free explainer — Video — link to paper
2019
Cook, J., Swart, J., Froböse, M., Diaconescu, A., Geurts, D., den Ouden, H. & Cools, R. (2019) Catecholaminergic modulation of meta-learning. eLife, 8, e51439 — data & analysis scripts — link to paper
Hickman, L. J. (2019). The importance of assessing alexithymia in psychological research. PsychPAG Quarterly, 111, 29-32 — link to paper— accessible link
Schuster, B. A., Sowden, S., Karim, D., Wing, A.M., & Cook, J. L. (2019) Acting is not the same as feeling: emotion expression in gait is different for posed and induced emotions. Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience. Conference Abstract: 4th International Conference on Educational Neuroscience — pdf
Sowden, S., Schuster, B. A., & Cook, J. L. (2019) The role of movement kinematics in facial emotion expression. Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience. Conference Abstract: 4th International Conference on Educational Neuroscience — pdf
Cook, J. L. (2019) Autism, kinematics and social cognition. Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience. Conference Abstract: 4th International Conference on Educational Neuroscience — pdf
Edey, R., Cook, J., Brewer, R., Bird, G., & Press, C. (2019). Adults with autism spectrum disorder are sensitive to the kinematic features defining natural human motion. Autism Research, 12(2), 284-294 — pdf
2018
Cook, J.L., Swart, J.C., Froböse, M.I., Diaconescu, A., Geurts, D.E.M., den Ouden, H.E.M., Cools, R. (2018). Catecholamine Challenge Uncovers Distinct Mechanisms For Direct Versus Indirect, But Not Social Versus Non-Social, Learning — preprint — link to paper
Eddy, C. & Cook, J.L. (2018) Emotions in action: The relationship between motor function and social cognition across multiple clinical populations. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry, 86, 229-244 — link — preprint pdf
Froböse, M.I., Swart, J.C., Cook, J.L., Geurts, D.E.M., den Ouden, H.E.M., Cools, R. (2018). Catecholaminergic modulation of the avoidance of cognitive control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(12), 1763-1781 — preprint — link to paper
2017
Swart, J., Froböse, M., Cook, J., Geurts, D., Frank, M., Cools, R., den Ouden, H. (2017) Catecholaminergic challenge uncovers distinct Pavlovian and instrumental mechanisms of motivated (in)action. eLIFE, 6:e22169 — pdf — link to paper
Edey, R., Yon, D., Cook, J., Dumontheil, I., & Press, C. (2017) Our own action kinematics determine the perceived affective states of others. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43(7), 1263-1268 — pdf — link to paper
Happé, F., Cook, J., & Bird, G. (2017). The structure of social cognition: In(ter)dependence of Sociocognitive Processes. Annual Review of Psychology, 68, 243-267 — pdf — link to paper
2016
Cook, J., Murphy, J., & Bird, G. (2016). Judging the Ability of Friends and Foes. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 20(10), 717-719 — pdf — link to paper
Edey, R., Cook, J., Brewer, R., Johnson, M., Bird, G., & Press, C. (2016). Interaction takes two: typical adults exhibit mind-blindness towards those with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 125(7), 879-885 — pdf — link to paper
Cook, J. L. (2016). From movement kinematics to social cognition: the case of autism. ‘Perceiving and neglecting other people’ special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 20150372 — pdf — link to paper
Cook, J. L. (2016) Disorders of social processing (invited book chapter). In Shared Representations: Sensorimotor Foundations of Social Life. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge — uncorrected proof
2015
Sahakian, B., Bruhl, A., Cook, J., Killikelly, C., Savulich, G., Piercy, T., Hafizi, S., Perez, J., Fernandez-Agea, E., Suckling, J., Jones, P. (2015). The impact of neuroscience on society: cognitive enhancement in neuropsychiatric disorders and in healthy people. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 370(1677) – pdf — link to paper
2014
Cook, J.L., den Ouden, H., Heyes, C. & Cools, R. (2014). The social dominance paradox. Current Biology, 24(23), 2812-2816 — pdf — link to paper
Cook, J. L. (2014). Task-relevance dependent gradients in medial prefrontal and temporoparietal cortices suggest solutions to paradoxes concerning self/other control. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 42C, 298-302 — pdf — link to paper
Cook, J.L., Swapp, D., Pan, X., Bianchi-Berthouze, N. & Blakemore, S-J. (2014). Atypical interference effect of action observation in autism spectrum conditions. Psychological Medicine, 44(4), 731-40 — pdf — link to paper
2013
Cook, J. L., Blakemore, S-J. & Press, C. (2013). Atypical basic movement kinematics in autism spectrum conditions. Brain. 136(9):2816-24 — pdf — link to paper
2012
Cook, J.L., & Black, J. (2012). The influence of social interaction on cognitive remediation for schizophrenia. Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience special issue ‘Neurobiology of Social Learning’. 6:140, pdf — link to paper
Cook, J.L., Barbalat, G. & Blakemore, S-J. (2012). Top-down modulation of the perception of other people in schizophrenia and autism. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience special issue ‘Towards a Neuroscience of Social Interaction’. 6, 175 — pdf — link to paper
Cook, J. & Bird, G. (2012) Atypical social modulation of imitation in autism spectrum conditions. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 42(6), 1045-51 — pdf — link to paper
Santiesteban, I., White, S., Cook, J., Gilbert, S., Heyes, C. & Bird, G. (2012) Training social cognition: from imitation to theory of mind. Cognition. 122(2), 228-3 –. pdf — link to paper
2011
Cook, J. & Bird, G. (2011) Social attitudes differentially modulate imitation in adolescents and adults. Experimental Brain Research: special issue on joint action. 211(3-4), 601-12. pdf — link to paper
Press, C., Cook, J., Blakemore, S-J. & Kilner, J. (2011) Dynamic modulation of human motor activity when observing actions. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(8), 2792-2800 — pdf — link to paper
2010
Saygin, A.P., Cook, J. & Blakemore, S-J. (2010) Unaffected perceptual thresholds for biological and non-biological form-from-motion perception in autism spectrum conditions. PLoS ONE. 5(10), e13491 — pdf — link to paper
Campbell-Meiklejohn, D.K., Wakeley, J., Herbert, V., Cook, J., Scollo, P., Kar Ray, M., Selvaraj, S., Passingham, R.E., Cowen, P. & Rogers, R.D. (2010). Serotonin and dopamine play complementary roles in gambling to recover losses. Neuropsychopharmacology. 36(2), 402-10 — pdf — link to paper
2009
Cook, J., Saygin, A. P., Swain, R. & Blakemore, S-J. (2009) Reduced sensitivity to minimum-jerk biological motion in autism spectrum conditions. Neuropsychologia. 47(14), 3275-8 — pdf — link to paper
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