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  1. The Role of Art Knowledge Training on Aesthetic Judgements and Executive Functions

    Article • July 2023, Center for Open Science

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  2. Human–Robot Cooperation in Economic Games: People Show Strong Reciprocity but Conditional Prosociality Toward Robots

    Article • International Journal of Social Robotics, April 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  3. Investigating the effect of cardio-visual synchrony on prosocial behavior towards a social robot

    Article • Open Research Europe, February 2023, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  4. Coping with Emotional Distress via Self-Disclosure to Robots: Intervention with Caregivers

    Article • February 2023, Center for Open Science

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  5. Value attributed to text-based archives generated by artificial intelligence

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, February 2023, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  6. Body Form Modulates the Prediction of Human and Artificial Behaviour from Gaze Observation

    Article • International Journal of Social Robotics, January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emmanuele Tidoni, Professor Emily S. Cross

  7. The computer, A choreographer? Aesthetic responses to randomly-generated dance choreography by a computer

    Article • Heliyon, January 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  8. Autonomous social robots are real in the mind's eye of many

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  9. Dancing robots: Social interactions are performed, not depicted

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  10. Human-Robot Relationship: long-term effects on disclosure, perception and well-being

    Article • December 2022, Center for Open Science

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  11. Synchronised interactions with a peer observer increase self-monitoring during response inhibition: An fNIRS study

    Article • December 2022, Center for Open Science

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  12. Talk, Listen and Keep Me Company: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Children’s Perspectives Towards Robot Reading Companions

    Article • December 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  13. User experience of human-robot long-term interactions

    Article • December 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Guy Laban, Emily Cross, Professor Emily S. Cross

  14. Movement appreciation

    Article • October 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  15. Exploring behaviours perceived as important for human—Dog bonding and their translation to a robotic platform

    Article • PLOS One, September 2022, PLOS

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  16. Exploring perceptions of prosocial dog behaviors in a biomimetic robot

    Article • August 2022, Center for Open Science

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  17. Tracking human interactions with a commercially-available robot over multiple days

    Article • Open Research Europe, August 2022, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  18. The role of expertise and culture in visual art appreciation

    Article • Scientific Reports, June 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  19. Human but not robotic gaze facilitates action prediction

    Article • iScience, June 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Emmanuele Tidoni, Professor Emily S. Cross

  20. Co-existing With a Drone: Using Virtual Reality to Investigate the Effect of the Drone’s Height and Cover Story on Proxemic Behaviours

    Article • April 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Emily Cross, Dr Mohamed Khamis, Professor Emily S. Cross

  21. Informal Caregivers Disclose Increasingly More to a Social Robot Over Time

    Article • April 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Guy Laban, Emily Cross, Professor Emily S. Cross

  22. Resonance as a Design Strategy for AI and Social Robots

    Article • Frontiers in Neurorobotics, April 2022, Frontiers

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  23. Perceptions of Intelligence & Sentience Shape Children’s Interactions with Robot Reading Companions: A Mixed Methods Study

    Article • April 2022, Center for Open Science

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  24. People’s dispositional cooperative tendencies towards robots are unaffected by robots’ negative emotional displays in prisoner’s dilemma games

    Article • Cognition & Emotion, April 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  25. The McNorm library: creating and validating a new library of emotionally expressive whole body dance movements

    Article • Psychological Research, April 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  26. Is Deep Learning a Valid Approach for Inferring Subjective Self-Disclosure in Human-Robot Interactions?

    Article • March 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Guy Laban, Professor Emily S. Cross

  27. The Role of Empathic Traits in Emotion Recognition and Emotion Contagion of Cozmo Robots

    Article • March 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  28. Original or fake? Value attributed to text-based archives generated by artificial intelligence.

    Article • February 2022, Center for Open Science

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  29. Social Robots for Supporting Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Diagnosis and Treatment

    Article • Frontiers in Psychiatry, February 2022, Frontiers

    Dr. Ziv Ben-Zion, Dr Guy Laban, Professor Emily S. Cross

  30. The Computer, A Choreographer? Aesthetic Responses to Computer-Generated Dance Choreography

    Article • January 2022, Center for Open Science

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  31. Commentary: Embodied learning within embodied communities

    Article • January 2022, Bloomsbury Academic

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  32. Human but not robotic gaze facilitates action prediction

    Article • September 2021, Center for Open Science

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  33. Exploring behaviours perceived as important for human—dog bonding and their translation to a robotic platform

    Article • September 2021, Center for Open Science

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  34. The role of expertise and culture in visual art appreciation

    Article • September 2021, Center for Open Science

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  35. Empathy and Schadenfreude in Human–Robot Teams

    Article • Journal of Cognition, August 2021, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  36. Social Robots for Supporting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Diagnosis and Treatment

    Article • August 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Ziv Ben-Zion, Professor Emily S. Cross

  37. The McNorm Library: Creating and Validating a New Library of Emotionally Expressive Dance Movement

    Article • July 2021, Center for Open Science

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  38. Protocol for a Mediated Long-Term Experiment with a Social Robot

    Article • July 2021, Center for Open Science

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  39. Exploring the relationship between anthropomorphism and theory‐of‐mind in brain and behaviour

    Article • Human Brain Mapping, July 2021, Wiley

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  40. Dissociating embodiment and emotional reactivity in motor responses to artworks

    Article • Cognition, July 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  41. Assessing Children’s First Impressions of “WallBo” - A Robotic Handwashing Buddy

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Emily Cross, Professor Emily S. Cross

  42. Watch and Learn: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning from Others’ Actions

    Article • Trends in Neurosciences, June 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  43. Individuals expend more effort to compete against robots than humans after observing competitive human-robot interactions

    Article • April 2021, Center for Open Science

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  44. Mind Meets Machine: Towards a Cognitive Science of Human–Machine Interactions

    Article • Trends in Cognitive Sciences, March 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  45. “Hit the Robot on the Head With This Mallet” – Making a Case for Including More Open Questions in HRI Research

    Article • Frontiers in Robotics and AI, February 2021, Frontiers

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  46. What Makes a Robot Social? A Review of Social Robots from Science Fiction to a Home or Hospital Near You

    Article • Current Robotics Reports, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guy Laban, Professor Emily S. Cross

  47. Faces Do Not Attract More Attention Than Non-Social Distractors in the Stroop Task

    Article • Collabra Psychology, January 2021, University of California Press

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  48. Individuals Expend More Effort to Compete Against Robots Than Humans After Observing Competitive Human–Robot Interactions

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  49. Exploring the relationship between anthropomorphism and Theory-of-Mind in brain and behaviour

    Article • December 2020, Center for Open Science

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  50. Tell me more! Assessing interactions with social robots from speech

    Article • Paladyn, December 2020, De Gruyter

    Dr Guy Laban, Emily Cross, Professor Emily S. Cross

  51. Empathy and schadenfreude in human–robot teams

    Article • December 2020, Center for Open Science

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  52. Timing is everything: Dance aesthetics depend on the complexity of movement kinematics

    Article • Cognition, December 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  53. What Makes a Robot Social? A Review of Social Robots from Fiction to a Home or Hospital Near You

    Article • November 2020, Center for Open Science

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  54. Social Robots on a Global Stage: Establishing a Role for Culture During Human–Robot Interaction

    Article • International Journal of Social Robotics, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  55. Examining the value of body gestures in social reward contexts

    Article • NeuroImage, November 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  56. “Hit the Robot on the Head… with this Mallet” – Making a Case for Including More Open Questions in HRI Research

    Article • September 2020, Center for Open Science

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  57. Embodying Expertise as a Performer and Perceiver

    Article • August 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  58. Tracking Human Interactions with a Commercially-available Robot over Multiple Days: A Tutorial

    Article • July 2020, Center for Open Science

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  59. Human-robot cooperation in economic games: People show strong reciprocity but conditional prosociality toward robots

    Article • July 2020, Center for Open Science

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  60. Social Cognition in the Age of Human–Robot Interaction

    Article • Trends in Neurosciences, June 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  61. Investigating the effect of heartrate synchrony on prosocial behaviour towards a robot

    Article • May 2020, Center for Open Science

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  62. Tell me more! Assessing interactions with social robots from speech

    Article • May 2020, Center for Open Science

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  63. Social robots on a global stage: Establishing a role for culture during human-robot interaction

    Article • April 2020, Center for Open Science

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  64. Let's Talk About It! Subjective and Objective Disclosures to Social Robots

    Article • March 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Guy Laban, Emily Cross, Professor Emily S. Cross

  65. Human-Robot Cooperation in Prisoner Dilemma Games

    Article • March 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Emily Cross, Professor Emily S. Cross

  66. Examining the Value of Body Gestures in Social Reward Contexts

    Article • February 2020, Center for Open Science

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  67. Human body motion captures visual attention and elicits pupillary dilation

    Article • Cognition, December 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  68. Timing is everything: Aesthetic perception of movement kinematics in dance

    Article • November 2019, Center for Open Science

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  69. Fluid intelligence and working memory support dissociable aspects of learning by physical but not observational practice

    Article • Cognition, September 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  70. 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

  71. 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

  72. 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

  73. Human body motion captures visual attention and elicits pupillary arousal

    Article • November 2018, Center for Open Science

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  74. The effect of interpersonal synchrony with a robot on likeability and social motivation

    Article • November 2018, Center for Open Science

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  75. 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

  76. Apshvalka_ind_diffs_preprint

    Article • September 2018, Center for Open Science

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  77. 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

  78. From automata to animate beings: the scope and limits of attributing socialness to artificial agents

    Article • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, May 2018, Wiley

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  79. Cognitive and Social Neuroscience Methods for HRI

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

    Cristina Becchio, Professor Emily S. Cross

  80. Justify your alpha

    Article • Nature Human Behaviour, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Ahmed Khalil, Professor Andrew P Grieve, Dr. Amanda Friesen, Professor Emily S. Cross

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

    Article • Cognition, February 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  82. 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

  83. 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

  84. Neurodevelopmental perspectives on dance learning: Insights from early adolescence and young adulthood

    Article • January 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  85. Observing and Learning Complex Actions: On the Example of Guitar Playing

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  86. The influence of sensorimotor experience on the aesthetic evaluation of dance across the life span

    Article • January 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  87. 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

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

    Article • NeuroImage, August 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  89. The perception of emotion in artificial agents

    Article • August 2017, Center for Open Science

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  90. 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

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

    Article • PLOS One, May 2016, PLOS

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  92. 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

  93. Shared Representations

    Article • January 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  94. 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

  95. 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

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

    Article • Human Brain Mapping, October 2015, Wiley

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  97. 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

  98. 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

  99. 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

  100. 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

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

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

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  102. The Control of Automatic Imitation Based on Bottom–Up and Top–Down Cues to Animacy: Insights from Brain and Behavior

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, November 2014, The MIT Press

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  103. 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

  104. 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

  105. A review and critical analysis of how cognitive neuroscientific investigations using dance can contribute to sport psychology

    Article • International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, December 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  106. 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

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

    Article • PLOS One, May 2013, PLOS

    Professor Emily S. Cross

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

    Article • Social Neuroscience, January 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  109. The impact of sensorimotor experience on affective evaluation of dance

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2013, Frontiers

    Professor Emily S. Cross

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

    Article • Neuropsychologia, December 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  111. Simulating and predicting others’ actions

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

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  112. Neurocognitive control in dance perception and performance

    Article • Acta Psychologica, February 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  113. Neurophysiological Correlates of Learning to Dance

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Emily S. Cross

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

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

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  115. 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

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

    Article • Human Brain Mapping, November 2011, Wiley

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  117. Eye Can See What You Want: Posterior Intraparietal Sulcus Encodes the Object of an Actor's Gaze

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, November 2011, The MIT Press

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  118. Robotic movement preferentially engages the action observation network

    Article • Human Brain Mapping, September 2011, Wiley

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  119. 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

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

    Article • Cognitive Neuroscience, September 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  121. 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

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

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2011, Frontiers

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  123. The Neurocognition of Dance

    Article • July 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  124. Contorted and ordinary body postures in the human brain

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

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  125. 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

  126. 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

  127. 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

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

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

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  129. 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

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

    Article • Brain Research, October 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Emily S. Cross

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

    Article • NeuroImage, July 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Emily S. Cross

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

    Article • Brain and Language, April 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Emily S. Cross

  133. The Impact of Action Expertise on Shared Representations

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Emily S. Cross