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  1. A neurocognitive investigation of the impact of socializing with a robot on empathy for pain

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, March 2019, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  2. From social brains to social robots: applying neurocognitive insights to human–robot interaction

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, March 2019, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  3. The Perception of Emotion in Artificial Agents

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, December 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  4. Observing Action Sequences Elicits Sequence-Specific Neural Representations in Frontoparietal Brain Regions

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, October 2018, Society for Neuroscience

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  5. Dance Training Shapes Action Perception and Its Neural Implementation within the Young and Older Adult Brain

    Article • Neural Plasticity, July 2018, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Professor Emily S. Cross, Emily Cross

  6. Cognitive and Social Neuroscience Methods for HRI

    Article • March 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Cristina Becchio, Professor Emily S. Cross

  7. Decreased reward value of biological motion among individuals with autistic traits

    Article • Cognition, February 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  8. From automata to animate beings: The scope and limits of attributing socialness to artificial agents

    Article • January 2018, Center for Open Science

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  9. Anodal tDCS over Primary Motor Cortex Provides No Advantage to Learning Motor Sequences via Observation

    Article • Neural Plasticity, January 2018, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Professor Emily S. Cross, Emily Cross

  10. Learning to tie the knot: The acquisition of functional object representations by physical and observational experience

    Article • PLoS ONE, October 2017, PLOS

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  11. Using guitar learning to probe the Action Observation Network's response to visuomotor familiarity

    Article • NeuroImage, August 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  12. Have I grooved to this before? Discriminating practised and observed actions in a novel context

    Article • Acta Psychologica, April 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  13. The Impact of Experience on Affective Responses during Action Observation

    Article • PLoS ONE, May 2016, PLOS

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  14. Shaping and reshaping the aesthetic brain: Emerging perspectives on the neurobiology of embodied aesthetics

    Article • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, March 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  15. Shared Representations

    Article • January 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  16. The shaping of social perception by stimulus and knowledge cues to human animacy

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  17. Understanding self and others: from origins to disorders

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  18. The timing and precision of action prediction in the aging brain

    Article • Human Brain Mapping, October 2015, Wiley

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  19. There or not there? A multidisciplinary review and research agenda on the impact of transparent barriers on human perception, action, and social behavior

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, September 2015, Frontiers

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  20. Disentangling neural processes of egocentric and allocentric mental spatial transformations using whole-body photos of self and other

    Article • NeuroImage, August 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  21. Additive Routes to Action Learning: Layering Experience Shapes Engagement of the Action Observation Network

    Article • Cerebral Cortex, July 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  22. Dance experience sculpts aesthetic perception and related brain circuits

    Article • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, March 2015, Wiley

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  23. Dynamic Modulation of the Action Observation Network by Movement Familiarity

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, January 2015, Society for Neuroscience

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  24. Testing key predictions of the associative account of mirror neurons in humans using multivariate pattern analysis

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, April 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  25. Motor Control in Action: Using Dance to Explore the Intricate Choreography Between Action Perception and Production in the Human Brain

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  26. Supramodal and modality-sensitive representations of perceived action categories in the human brain

    Article • Experimental Brain Research, August 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  27. Action Prediction in Younger versus Older Adults: Neural Correlates of Motor Familiarity

    Article • PLoS ONE, May 2013, PLOS

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  28. Action observation in the infant brain: The role of body form and motion

    Article • Social Neuroscience, January 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  29. Physical experience leads to enhanced object perception in parietal cortex: Insights from knot tying

    Article • Neuropsychologia, December 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  30. Simulating and predicting others’ actions

    Article • Psychological Research, June 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  31. Neurocognitive control in dance perception and performance

    Article • Acta Psychologica, February 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  32. Representing others’ actions: the role of expertise in the aging mind

    Article • Psychological Research, December 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  33. Predicting others’ actions via grasp and gaze: evidence for distinct brain networks

    Article • Psychological Research, November 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  34. The influence of visual training on predicting complex action sequences

    Article • Human Brain Mapping, November 2011, Wiley

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  35. Robotic movement preferentially engages the action observation network

    Article • Human Brain Mapping, September 2011, Wiley

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  36. From dancing robots to action aesthetics: Re-examining mirror system activity as a function of the observer's experience

    Article • Neuroscience Research, September 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  37. No two are the same: Body shapeispart of identifying others

    Article • Cognitive Neuroscience, September 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  38. Neuroaesthetics and beyond: new horizons in applying the science of the brain to the art of dance

    Article • Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  39. The impact of aesthetic evaluation and physical ability on dance perception

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2011, Frontiers

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  40. Contorted and ordinary body postures in the human brain

    Article • Experimental Brain Research, November 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  41. Dissociable substrates for body motion and physical experience in the human action observation network

    Article • European Journal of Neuroscience, October 2009, Wiley

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  42. Transient disruption of M1 during response planning impairs subsequent offline consolidation

    Article • Experimental Brain Research, May 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  43. Ventral and dorsal stream contributions to the online control of immediate and delayed grasping: A TMS approach

    Article • Neuropsychologia, May 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  44. Sensitivity of the Action Observation Network to Physical and Observational Learning

    Article • Cerebral Cortex, May 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  45. Neural Substrates of Contextual Interference during Motor Learning Support a Model of Active Preparation

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, November 2007, The MIT Press

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  46. On-line grasp control is mediated by the contralateral hemisphere

    Article • Brain Research, October 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  47. Building a motor simulation de novo: Observation of dance by dancers

    Article • NeuroImage, July 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  48. Do alternative names block young and older adults’ retrieval of proper names?

    Article • Brain and Language, April 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  49. The Impact of Action Expertise on Shared Representations

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Emily S. Cross