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Visual Attention to Dynamic Emotional Faces in Adults on the Autism Spectrum (2023)
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Macinska, S., Lindsay, S., & Jellema, T. (2023). Visual Attention to Dynamic Emotional Faces in Adults on the Autism Spectrum. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-023-05979-8

Using eye-tracking, we studied allocation of attention to faces where the emotional expression and eye-gaze dynamically changed in an ecologically-valid manner. We tested typically-developed (TD) adults low or high in autistic-like traits (Experiment... Read More about Visual Attention to Dynamic Emotional Faces in Adults on the Autism Spectrum.

Could direct and generative retrieval be two flips of the same coin? A dual-task paradigm study (2022)
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Gatti, D., Somos, E., Mazzoni, G., & Jellema, T. (2022). Could direct and generative retrieval be two flips of the same coin? A dual-task paradigm study. Cognitive processing, 23(3), 513-519. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-022-01095-0

Autobiographical memories are thought to be retrieved using two possible ways: a generative one, which is effortful and follows a general-to-specific pathway, and a direct one, which is automatic and relatively effortless. These two retrieve processe... Read More about Could direct and generative retrieval be two flips of the same coin? A dual-task paradigm study.

Sensorimotor representation of observed dyadic actions with varying agent involvement: an EEG mu study (2022)
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Krol, M. A., & Jellema, T. (2022). Sensorimotor representation of observed dyadic actions with varying agent involvement: an EEG mu study. Cognitive neuroscience, https://doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2022.2084605

Observation of others’ actions activates motor representations in sensorimotor cortex. Although action observation in the real-world often involves multiple agents displaying varying degrees of action involvement, most lab studies on action observati... Read More about Sensorimotor representation of observed dyadic actions with varying agent involvement: an EEG mu study.

Sensorimotor anticipation of others’ actions in real-world and video settings: Modulation by level of engagement? (2022)
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Krol, M. A., & Jellema, T. (2022). Sensorimotor anticipation of others’ actions in real-world and video settings: Modulation by level of engagement?. Social Neuroscience, 17(3), 293-304. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2022.2083229

Electroencephalography (EEG) studies investigating social cognition have used both video and real-world stimuli, often without a strong reasoning as to why one or the other was chosen. Video stimuli can be selected for practical reasons, while natura... Read More about Sensorimotor anticipation of others’ actions in real-world and video settings: Modulation by level of engagement?.

“Be careful what you recall”: Retrieval-induced forgetting of genuine real-life autobiographical memories (2022)
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Somos, E., Mazzoni, G., Gatti, D., & Jellema, T. (2022). “Be careful what you recall”: Retrieval-induced forgetting of genuine real-life autobiographical memories. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218221078499

Which episodes from our lives will be remembered and which will be forgotten, and why? This question has still not been answered satisfactorily by research into autobiographical memory. Previous work has shown that retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF)... Read More about “Be careful what you recall”: Retrieval-induced forgetting of genuine real-life autobiographical memories.

Memory for facial expressions on the autism spectrum: The influence of gaze direction and type of expression (2022)
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Macinska, S., & Jellema, T. (2022). Memory for facial expressions on the autism spectrum: The influence of gaze direction and type of expression. Autism Research, 15(5), 870-880. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2682

Face memory research in autism has largely neglected memory for facial expressions, in favor of memory for identity. This study in three experiments examined the role of gaze direction and type of expression on memory for facial expressions in relati... Read More about Memory for facial expressions on the autism spectrum: The influence of gaze direction and type of expression.

Are adaptation aftereffects for facial emotional expressions affected by prior knowledge about the emotion? (2022)
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Wincenciak, J., Palumbo, L., Epihova, G., Barraclough, N. E., & Jellema, T. (2022). Are adaptation aftereffects for facial emotional expressions affected by prior knowledge about the emotion?. Cognition and Emotion, 36(4), 602-615. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2022.2031907

Accurate perception of the emotional signals conveyed by others is crucial for successful social interaction. Such perception is influenced not only by sensory input, but also by knowledge we have about the others’ emotions. This study addresses the... Read More about Are adaptation aftereffects for facial emotional expressions affected by prior knowledge about the emotion?.

Sensorimotor cortex activation during anticipation of upcoming predictable but not unpredictable actions (2019)
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Krol, M. A., Schutter, D. J. L. G., & Jellema, T. (2020). Sensorimotor cortex activation during anticipation of upcoming predictable but not unpredictable actions. Social Neuroscience, 15(2), 214-226. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2019.1674688

The mirror neuron system (MNS) becomes active during action execution and action observation, which is presumably reflected by reductions in mu (8–13 Hz) activity in the electroencephalogram over the sensorimotor cortex. The function of the MNS is st... Read More about Sensorimotor cortex activation during anticipation of upcoming predictable but not unpredictable actions.

The role of pattern extrapolation in the perception of dynamic facial expressions in Autism Spectrum Disorder (2018)
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Palumbo, L., Macinska, S. T., & Jellema, T. (2018). The role of pattern extrapolation in the perception of dynamic facial expressions in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, Article 1918. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01918

Changes in the intensity and type of facial expressions reflect alterations in the emotional state of the agent. Such "direct" access to the other's affective state might, top-down, influence the perception of the facial expressions that gave rise to... Read More about The role of pattern extrapolation in the perception of dynamic facial expressions in Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Action adaptation during natural unfolding social scenes influences action recognition and inferences made about actor beliefs (2016)
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Keefe, B. D., Wincenciak, J., Jellema, T., Ward, J. W., & Barraclough, N. E. (2016). Action adaptation during natural unfolding social scenes influences action recognition and inferences made about actor beliefs. Journal of Vision, 16(9), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1167/16.9.9

When observing another individual's actions, we can both recognize their actions and infer their beliefs concerning the physical and social environment. The extent to which visual adaptation influences action recognition and conceptually later stages... Read More about Action adaptation during natural unfolding social scenes influences action recognition and inferences made about actor beliefs.

Emotional actions are coded via two mechanisms : with and without identity representation (2016)
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Wincenciak, J., Ingham, J., Jellema, T., & Barraclough, N. E. (2016). Emotional actions are coded via two mechanisms : with and without identity representation. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 693-1-693-13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00693

Accurate perception of an individual’s identity and emotion derived from their actions and behavior is essential for successful social functioning. Here we determined the role of identity in the representation of emotional whole-body actions using vi... Read More about Emotional actions are coded via two mechanisms : with and without identity representation.

Atypical emotional anticipation in high-functioning autism (2015)
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Jellema, T., Burnett, H. G., & Palumbo, L. (2015). Atypical emotional anticipation in high-functioning autism. Molecular Autism, 6(1), 47-1-47-17. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13229-015-0039-7

Background Understanding and anticipating others’ mental or emotional states relies on the processing of social cues, such as dynamic facial expressions. Individuals with high-functioning autism (HFA) may process these cues differently from individua... Read More about Atypical emotional anticipation in high-functioning autism.

Impaired identification of impoverished animate but not inanimate objects in adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (2014)
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Burnett, H. G., Panis, S., Wagemans, J., & Jellema, T. (2015). Impaired identification of impoverished animate but not inanimate objects in adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder. Autism Research, 8(1), 52-60. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.1412

The ability to identify animate and inanimate objects from impoverished images was investigated in adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (HFA) and in matched typically developed (TD) adults, using a newly developed task. Consecutive f... Read More about Impaired identification of impoverished animate but not inanimate objects in adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder.

Involuntary social cue integration in patients with obsessive compulsive disorder (2013)
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Tumkaya, S., Karadag, F., Jellema, T., Oguzhanoglu, N. K., Ozdel, O., Atesci, F. C., & Varma, G. (2014). Involuntary social cue integration in patients with obsessive compulsive disorder. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 55(1), 137-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2013.08.007

Objective Patients with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) have inferior social functioning compared to healthy controls, but the exact nature of these social deficits, and the underpinning mechanisms, are unknown. We sought to investigate social fu... Read More about Involuntary social cue integration in patients with obsessive compulsive disorder.

Beyond Face Value: Does Involuntary Emotional Anticipation Shape the Perception of Dynamic Facial Expressions? (2013)
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Palumbo, L., & Jellema, T. (2013). Beyond Face Value: Does Involuntary Emotional Anticipation Shape the Perception of Dynamic Facial Expressions?. PLoS ONE, 8(2), Article e56003. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0056003

Emotional facial expressions are immediate indicators of the affective dispositions of others. Recently it has been shown thatearly stages of social perception can already be influenced by (implicit) attributions made by the observer about the agent'... Read More about Beyond Face Value: Does Involuntary Emotional Anticipation Shape the Perception of Dynamic Facial Expressions?.

Linguistic Alignment in Adults with and Without Asperger's Syndrome (2012)
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Slocombe, K., Alavrez, I., Branigan, H., Jellema, T., Burnett, H., Fischer, A., …Levita, L. (2013). Linguistic Alignment in Adults with and Without Asperger's Syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 43(6), 1423 - 1436. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-012-1698-2

Individuals with Asperger's Syndrome (AS)often have difficulties with social interactions and conversations.We investigated if these difficulties could beattributable to a deficit in the ability to linguistically convergewith an interlocutor, which i... Read More about Linguistic Alignment in Adults with and Without Asperger's Syndrome.

(Re-)conceptualisation in asperger's syndrome and typical individuals with varying degrees of autistic-like traits (2012)
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Burnett, H., & Jellema, T. (2013). (Re-)conceptualisation in asperger's syndrome and typical individuals with varying degrees of autistic-like traits. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 43(1), 211 - 223. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-012-1567-z

The abilities to form new concepts from scratch(conceptualisation), and to flexibly switch from one conceptto another (re-conceptualisation), were investigated inadults with Asperger's Syndrome and in typically-developedadults with low and high autis... Read More about (Re-)conceptualisation in asperger's syndrome and typical individuals with varying degrees of autistic-like traits.

Implicit social learning in relation to autistic-like traits (2012)
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Hudson, M., Nijboer, T. C. W., & Jellema, T. (2012). Implicit social learning in relation to autistic-like traits. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 42(12), 2534-2545. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-012-1510-3

We investigated if variation in autistic traits inthe typically-developed population (using the AutismspectrumQuotient, AQ) influenced implicit learning ofsocial information. In the learning phase, participantsrepeatedly observed two identities whose... Read More about Implicit social learning in relation to autistic-like traits.

Anticipation of action intentions in autism spectrum disorder (2011)
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Hudson, M., Burnett, H. G., & Jellema, T. (2012). Anticipation of action intentions in autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 42(8), 1684-1693. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-011-1410-y

We investigated whether individuals with a mild form of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are influenced by an actor’s gaze direction when anticipating how an observed action will continue in the immediate future. Participants observed a head rotate tow... Read More about Anticipation of action intentions in autism spectrum disorder.

Unequal impairment in the recognition of positive and negative emotions after right hemisphere lesions: A left hemisphere bias for happy faces (2011)
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Nijboer, T. C. W., & Jellema, T. (2012). Unequal impairment in the recognition of positive and negative emotions after right hemisphere lesions: A left hemisphere bias for happy faces. Journal of neuropsychology, 6(1), 79-93. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-6653.2011.02007.x

The processing of several important aspects of a human face was investigated in a single patient (LZ), who had a large infarct of the right hemisphere involving the parietal, and temporal lobes with extensions into the frontal region. LZ showed selec... Read More about Unequal impairment in the recognition of positive and negative emotions after right hemisphere lesions: A left hemisphere bias for happy faces.

Resolving ambiguous behavioral intentions by means of involuntary prioritization of gaze processing (2011)
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Jellema, T., & Hudson, M. (2011). Resolving ambiguous behavioral intentions by means of involuntary prioritization of gaze processing. Emotion, 11(3), 681-686. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0023264

Anticipation of others' actions is of paramount importance in social interactions. Cues such as gaze direction and facial expressions can be informative, but can also produce ambiguity with respect to others' intentions. We investigated the combined... Read More about Resolving ambiguous behavioral intentions by means of involuntary prioritization of gaze processing.

Biases in the perception and affective valence of neutral facial expressions induced by the immediate perceptual history (2011)
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Pecchinenda, A., Palumbo, L., Tan, E. G., & Jellema, T. (2011). Biases in the perception and affective valence of neutral facial expressions induced by the immediate perceptual history. Visual Cognition, 19(5), 616-634. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2011.569775

We report a new perceptual distortion of neutral facial expressions induced by the immediate dynamic perceptual history. In Experiment 1, participants evaluated the facial expression on the last frame of videoclips showing morphs from a happy or angr... Read More about Biases in the perception and affective valence of neutral facial expressions induced by the immediate perceptual history.

Implied Motion Activation in Cortical Area MT Can Be Explained by Visual Low-level Features (2011)
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Lorteije, J. A., Jellema, T., Raemaekers, M., Duijnhouwer, J., Barraclough, N. E., Xiao, D., …van Wezel, R. J. (2011). Implied Motion Activation in Cortical Area MT Can Be Explained by Visual Low-level Features. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 23(6), 1533-1548. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2010.21533

To investigate form-related activity inmotion-sensitive cortical areas, we recorded cell responses to animate implied motion in macaque middle temporal (MT) and medial superior temporal (MST) cortex and investigated these areas using fMRI in humans.... Read More about Implied Motion Activation in Cortical Area MT Can Be Explained by Visual Low-level Features.

Facial expressions and emotional anticipation (2010)
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Palumbo, L., & Jellema, T. (2010). Facial expressions and emotional anticipation. Perception, 39(ECVP Abstract Supplement), 94 - 94

Emotional facial expressions are immediate indicators of a ective dispositions. We investigated towhat extent judgments of others' dynamic emotional facial expressions are influenced by (1) emotionalanticipation, ie the involuntary anticipation of th... Read More about Facial expressions and emotional anticipation.

Visual aftereffects for walking actions reveal underlying neural mechanisms for action recognition (2010)
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Barraclough, N., & Jellema, T. (2011). Visual aftereffects for walking actions reveal underlying neural mechanisms for action recognition. Psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society / APS, 22(1), 87-94. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797610391910

The results of this study illustrate a new high-level visual aftereffect: Observing actors walking forward, without horizontal translation, makes subsequent actors appear to walk backward, and the opposite effect is obtained after observing backward... Read More about Visual aftereffects for walking actions reveal underlying neural mechanisms for action recognition.

Categorical perception of morphed objects using a free-naming experiment (2010)
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Hartendorp, M. O., Van der Stigchel, S., Burnett, H. G., Jellema, T., Eilers, P. H., & Postma, A. (2010). Categorical perception of morphed objects using a free-naming experiment. Visual Cognition, 18(9), 1320-1347. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2010.482774

Morphed figures entail a dominant and nondominant interpretation. Testing perception of morphed objects using forced-choice methods demonstrates that morphed figures are perceived as their dominant interpretation ("categorical perception", or CP). Us... Read More about Categorical perception of morphed objects using a free-naming experiment.

Anticipating intentional actions: the effect of eye gaze direction on the judgment of head rotation (2009)
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Hudson, M., Liu, C. H., & Jellema, T. (2009). Anticipating intentional actions: the effect of eye gaze direction on the judgment of head rotation. Cognition, 112(3), 423-434. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2009.06.011

Using a representational momentum paradigm, this study investigated the hypothesis that judgments of how far another agent's head has rotated are influenced by the perceived gaze direction of the head. Participants observed a video-clip of a face rot... Read More about Anticipating intentional actions: the effect of eye gaze direction on the judgment of head rotation.

Involuntary interpretation of social cues is compromised in autism spectrum disorders (2009)
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Jellema, T., Lorteije, J., van Rijn, S., van t' Wout, M., de Haan, E., van Engeland, H., & Kemner, C. (2009). Involuntary interpretation of social cues is compromised in autism spectrum disorders. Autism Research, 2(4), 192-204. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.83

A new social distance judgment task was used to measure quantitatively the extent to which social cues are immediately and involuntary interpreted by typically developing (TD) individuals and by individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The t... Read More about Involuntary interpretation of social cues is compromised in autism spectrum disorders.

Deficits in implicit attention to social signals in schizophrenia and high risk groups: Behavioural evidence from a new illusion (2009)
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van 't Wout, M., van Rijn, S., Jellema, T., Kahn, R. S., & Aleman, A. (2009). Deficits in implicit attention to social signals in schizophrenia and high risk groups: Behavioural evidence from a new illusion. PLoS ONE, 4(5), e5581. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005581

Background An increasing body of evidence suggests that the apparent social impairments observed in schizophrenia may arise from deficits in social cognitive processing capacities. The ability to process basic social cues, such as gaze direction and... Read More about Deficits in implicit attention to social signals in schizophrenia and high risk groups: Behavioural evidence from a new illusion.

Delayed response to animate implied motion in human motion processing areas (2006)
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Lorteije, J. A., Kenemans, J. L., Jellema, T., van der Lubbe, R. H., de Heer, F., & van Wezel, R. J. (2006). Delayed response to animate implied motion in human motion processing areas. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 18(2), 158-168. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2006.18.2.158

Viewing static photographs of objects in motion evokes higher fMRI activation in the human medial temporal complex ( MT+) than looking at similar photographs without this implied motion. As MT+ is traditionally thought to be involved in motion percep... Read More about Delayed response to animate implied motion in human motion processing areas.

Temporal characteristics of neuronal sources for implied motion perception (2004)
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Lorteije, J., & Jellema, T. (2004). Temporal characteristics of neuronal sources for implied motion perception. Perception, 33(ECVP Abstract Supplement), 100 - 100

Viewing photographs of objects in motion evokes higher fMRI activation in human MT+ than similar photographs without this implied motion. MT+ is traditionally considered to be involved in motion perception. Therefore, this finding suggests feedback f... Read More about Temporal characteristics of neuronal sources for implied motion perception.

Sequential activation of microcircuits underlying somatosensory-evoked potentials in rat neocortex (2004)
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Jellema, T., Brunia, C. H. M., & Wadman, W. J. (2004). Sequential activation of microcircuits underlying somatosensory-evoked potentials in rat neocortex. Neuroscience, 129(2), 283-295. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2004.07.046

Evoked cortical field potentials are widely used in neurophysiological studies into cortical functioning, but insight in the underlying neural mechanisms is severely hampered by ambiguities in the interpretation of the field potentials. The present s... Read More about Sequential activation of microcircuits underlying somatosensory-evoked potentials in rat neocortex.