All Stories

  1. Assessing and Addressing Ethical Risk from Anthropomorphism and Deception in Socially Assistive Robots

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

    Dr Ailie J Turton, Dr Ute Leonards

  2. Couch to 5km Robot Coach

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

    Dr Ute Leonards, Dr Ailie J Turton

  3. Neural mechanisms underlying visual attention to health warnings on branded and plain cigarette packs

    Article • Addiction, January 2017, Wiley

    Dr Ute Leonards, Professor Marcus R Munafo

  4. How visual perceptual grouping influences foot placement

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, July 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Ute Leonards

  5. Treacherous Pavements: Paving Slab Patterns Modify Intended Walking Directions

    Article • PLoS ONE, June 2015, PLOS

    Dr Ute Leonards

  6. Efficiency of speech and iconic gesture integration for robotic and human communicators - a direct comparison

    Article • May 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Ute Leonards

  7. A Computational Model of Human-Robot Spatial Interactions Based on a Qualitative Trajectory Calculus

    Article • Robotics, March 2015, MDPI AG

    Dr Ute Leonards

  8. Effects of first exposure to plain cigarette packaging on smoking behaviour and attitudes: a randomised controlled study

    Article • BMC Public Health, March 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Ute Leonards, Professor Marcus R Munafo

  9. HRSI 2015

    Article • March 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Ute Leonards

  10. Speech and Gesture Emphasis Effects for Robotic and Human Communicators

    Article • March 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Ute Leonards

  11. Conceptual spaces and language games for an artificial fingertip

    Article • November 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Ute Leonards

  12. Towards the safety of human-in-the-loop robotics: Challenges and opportunities for safety assurance of robotic co-workers'

    Article • August 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Ute Leonards

  13. Plain packaging of cigarettes and smoking behavior: study protocol for a randomized controlled study

    Article • Trials, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Ute Leonards, Professor Marcus R Munafo

  14. Avoidance of cigarette pack health warnings among regular cigarette smokers

    Article • Drug and Alcohol Dependence, March 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Ute Leonards, Professor Marcus R Munafo

  15. Perception of own and robot engagement in human–robot interactions and their dependence on robotics knowledge

    Article • Robotics and Autonomous Systems, March 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Ute Leonards

  16. Joint action understanding improves robot-to-human object handover

    Article • November 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Ute Leonards

  17. Line bisection by eye and by hand reveal opposite biases

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

    Dr Ute Leonards

  18. Interactions between visual spatial attention and the focus of attention in working memory

    Article • January 2013, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Ute Leonards

  19. Social Robotics

    Article • January 2013

    Dr Ute Leonards

  20. Visual attention to health warnings on plain tobacco packaging in adolescent smokers and non-smokers

    Article • Addiction, October 2012, Wiley

    Dr Ute Leonards, Professor Marcus R Munafo

  21. Dealing with Illumination in Visual Scenes: Effects of Ageing and Alzheimer's Disease

    Article • PLoS ONE, September 2012, PLOS

    Dr Ute Leonards

  22. Engaging with Robots While Giving Simple Instructions

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Ute Leonards

  23. I Trust You; Hence I Like the Things You Look at: Gaze Cueing and Sender Trustworthiness Influence Object Evaluation

    Article • Social Cognition, August 2011, Guilford Publications

    Dr Ute Leonards

  24. Plain packaging increases visual attention to health warnings on cigarette packs in non-smokers and weekly smokers but not daily smokers

    Article • Addiction, April 2011, Wiley

    Dr Ute Leonards, Professor Marcus R Munafo

  25. Toward a Science of Learning Games

    Article • Mind Brain and Education, February 2011, Wiley

    Dr Ute Leonards

  26. The neural mechanisms of learning from competitors

    Article • NeuroImage, November 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Ute Leonards

  27. New insights into feature and conjunction search: I. Evidence from pupil size, eye movements and ageing

    Article • Cortex, May 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Ute Leonards

  28. New insights into feature and conjunction search: II. Evidence from Alzheimer's disease

    Article • Cortex, May 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Ute Leonards

  29. Implicit Voodoo: Electrodermal Activity Reveals a Susceptibility to Sympathetic Magic

    Article • Journal of Cognition and Culture, January 2010, Brill

    Dr Ute Leonards

  30. Schizotypal personality traits influence idiosyncratic initiation of saccadic face exploration

    Article • Vision Research, September 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Ute Leonards

  31. Do we look at lights? Using mixture modelling to distinguish between low- and high-level factors in natural image viewing

    Article • Visual Cognition, August 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Ute Leonards

  32. Flexible target representations underlie repetition priming in visual search

    Article • Visual Cognition, July 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Ute Leonards

  33. Memorial Symposium for Ruxandra Sireteanu (1945–2008)

    Article • Perception, January 2009, SAGE Publications

    Dr Ute Leonards

  34. Attentional bias training and cue reactivity in cigarette smokers

    Article • Addiction, November 2008, Wiley

    Dr Ute Leonards, Professor Marcus R Munafo

  35. Ruxandra Sireteanu (1945–2008)

    Article • Vision Research, November 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Ute Leonards

  36. Seeing, but not thinking: Limiting the spread of spontaneous trait transference II

    Article • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, May 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Ute Leonards

  37. Ruxandra Sireteanu (1945–2008)

    Article • Strabismus, January 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Ute Leonards

  38. Mediaeval artists: Masters in directing the observers' gaze

    Article • Current Biology, January 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Ute Leonards

  39. Luminosity—A perceptual “feature” of light-emitting objects?

    Article • Vision Research, October 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Ute Leonards

  40. Idiosyncratic initiation of saccadic face exploration in humans

    Article • Vision Research, September 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Ute Leonards

  41. Does contextual information influence positive and negative schizotypy scores in healthy individuals? The answer is maybe

    Article • Psychiatry Research, September 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Ute Leonards

  42. Cortical distinction between the neural encoding of objects that appear to glow and those that do not

    Article • Cognitive Brain Research, June 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Ute Leonards

  43. Comparison of Early Cortical Networks in Efficient and Inefficient Visual Search: An Event-Related Potential Study

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, October 2003, The MIT Press

    Dr Ute Leonards

  44. A new electrophysiological index for working memory load in humans

    Article • Neuroreport, August 2003, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Ute Leonards

  45. Simulation of artificial vision: I. Eccentric reading of isolated words, and perceptual learning

    Article • Vision Research, February 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Ute Leonards

  46. Perceptual learning of highly demanding visual search tasks

    Article • Vision Research, August 2002, Elsevier

    Dr Ute Leonards

  47. Localization of human frontal eye fields: anatomical and functional findings of functional magnetic resonance imaging and intracerebral electrical stimulation

    Article • Journal of Neurosurgery, November 2001, Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group (JNSPG)

    Denis Le Bihan, Dr Ute Leonards

  48. Attention Mechanisms in Visual Search—An fMRI Study

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, November 2000, The MIT Press

    Dr Ute Leonards

  49. Conjunctions of colour, luminance and orientation: the role of colour and luminance contrast on saliency and proximity grouping in texture segregation

    Article • Spatial Vision, January 2000, Brill

    Dr Ute Leonards

  50. Parallel visual search is not always effortless

    Article • Cognitive Brain Research, October 1998, Elsevier

    Dr Ute Leonards

  51. Two segmentation mechanisms with differential sensitivity for colour and luminance contrast

    Article • Vision Research, January 1998, Elsevier

    Dr Ute Leonards

  52. Selective Temporal Interactions Between Processing Streams with Differential Sensitivity for Colour and Luminance Contrast

    Article • Vision Research, May 1997, Elsevier

    Dr Ute Leonards

  53. The Influence of Temporal Phase Differences on Texture Segmentation

    Article • Vision Research, September 1996, Elsevier

    Dr Ute Leonards

  54. Interocular suppression in normal and amblyopic subjects: The effect of unilateral attenuation with neutral density filters

    Article • Perception & Psychophysics, January 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Ute Leonards