Art, Cognition/Creativity and Emotion Research Group (ACErg)

• Research Group Head: Dr Fatima M Felisberti
• Dr Giulia Galli
• Dr Chris Hewer
• Dr Sabira Mannan
• Dr Maria Mencia (KSA)
• Dr Cristina Martinelli
• Dr Amanda Rotella
• Prof Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau
• Dr Nora Shaileshkumar Vyas
• Dr Mircea Zloteanu

• Beren Barklam
• Katharine Clifford
• Susan Cooper
• Lara Quartel
• Zoë McHayle

• Sarah Geisemeyer
• Angela Medvedeva
• Wendy Ross
• Rose Turner
• Jane Trueman

For details of each of the topics currently being investigated in our laboratories, check the individual pages of our members.

• Art and empirical aesthetics (e.g. visual art, music)
• Cognition (memory, vision, perception)
• Creativity, curiosity and serendipity
• Decision making and judgements
• Emotion and attachment (e.g. pet ownership)
• Empathy and Theory of Mind
• Face recognition (in deception and trust)
• Neurocognition (e.g. hemineglect, dementia, schizophrenia)

• British Academy Small Research Grant. G GAlli (PI)
• CResCID 2021 grant – "Individual differences affecting dynamic emotion authenticity perception". M Zloteanu (PI), F M Felisberti (co-PI).
• Covid-19 Research – "Recall of handwashing behaviour in hazardous scenarios". F M Felisberti (PI)
• Marie Skodowska-Curie Horizon 2020 grant – "Quality of experience management in emerging multimedia services". M. Martini (PI), F M Felisberti (co-PI)

• Felisberti, F M (2021). Experiences of ugliness in nature and urban environments. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374211001798
• Felisberti, F M (2018). Long-lasting effects of family-related factors on adults' ability to recognise brief facial expressions of emotion. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 17, 1512–1525.  https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021817742080
• Galli, G, Miniussi, C & Pellicciari, M C (2020). Transcranial electric stimulation as a neural interface to gain insight on human brain functions : current knowledge and future perspective. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaa099 
• Medvedeva, A., Materassi, M., Neacsu, V., Beresford-Webb, J., Hussin, A., Khan, N., Newton, F. and Galli, G. (2019). Effects of anodal transcranial direct current stimulation over the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex on episodic memory formation and retrieval. Cerebral Cortex, 29, 657-665. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhx347
• Kajtazi-Testa, L & Hewer, C J (2018) Ambiguous loss and incomplete abduction narratives in Kosovo. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 23(2), 333–345.
• Roberts, R & Hewer, C J  (2015) Memory, madness and conflict: a Laingian perspective. Memory Studies, 8(2), 169–182.
• Mannan, S.K., Pambakian AL, and Kennard C.J (2010) Compensatory strategies following visual search training in patients with homonymous hemianopia: an eye movement study. Journal of Neurology, 257,1812-1821. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-010-5615-3
• Mannan, S.K., Hodgson TL, Husain M, and Kennard, C. (2008). Eye movements in visual search indicate impaired saliency processing in Parkinson's disease. Progress in Brain Research, 171,559-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0079-6123(08)00679-1
• Rigoli, F., Martinelli, C. & Shergill, S S (2019) The role of expecting feedback during decision-making under risk. NeuroImage, 202, 116079.
• Martinelli, C, Rigoli, F, Averbeck, B & Shergill, S S. (2018) The value of novelty in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 192, 287–293.
• Rotella, A., Sparks, A. M., & Barclay, P. (2020). Feelings of obligation are valuations of signalling-mediated social payoffs. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43. doi:10.1017/S0140525X19002322
• Rotella, A. M., & Mishra, S. (2020). Personal relative deprivation negatively predicts engagement in group decision-making. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/6d35w
• Vallée-Tourangeau, F & March, P L. (2020) Insight out : making creativity visible. Journal of Creative Behavior, 54, 824–842. https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.409
• Vallée-Tourangeau, F & Vallée-Tourangeau, G (2020) Mapping systemic resources in problem solving. New Ideas in Psychology, 59, 100812. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2020.100812
• Vyas, N S., Buchsbaum, M S., Lehrer, D S., Merrill, B M., DeCastro, A, D, Nicholas A., Christian, B T. & Mukherjee, J (2018) D2/D3 dopamine receptor binding with [F-18]fallypride correlates of executive function in medication-naïve patients with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 192, 442–456. 
• Vyas, N S, Ahn, K, Stahl, D R, Caviston, P, Simic, M, Netherwood, S, Puri, B K, Lee, Y & Aitchison, K J (2014) Association of KIBRA rs17070145 polymorphism with episodic memory in the early stages of a human neurodevelopmental disorder. Psychiatry Research, 220(1-2), 37–43. 
• Zloteanu, M, Bull, P, Krumhuber, E & Richardson, D (2020) Veracity judgment, not accuracy : reconsidering the role of facial expressions, empathy, and emotion recognition training on deception detection. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820978851
• Zloteanu, M, Krumhuber, E G & Richardson, D C (2020) Acting surprised : comparing perceptions of different dynamic deliberate expressions. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/45852/

PhD publications

• Medvedeva, A., Saw, R., Silvestri, C., Sirota, M., Fuggetta, G. and Galli, G. (2021). Offset-related brain activity in the left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex promotes long-term memory formation of verbal events. Brain Stimulation, 14, 564-570. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2021.03.002
• Ross, W. & Vallee-Tourangeau, F. (2021). Catch that word : interactivity, serendipity and verbal fluency in a word production task. Psychological Research,85, 842-856. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-019-01279-y
• Turner, R. and Vallée-Tourangeau, F. (2020). Fiction effects on social cognition : varying narrative engagement with cognitive load. Scientific Study of Literature, 10, 94-127. https://doi.org/10.1075/ssol.19008.tur