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72
Citations
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World Ranking
2056
National Ranking
230

Overview

A. Mike Burton is affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields including Neuroscience, Psychology, and Computer Science, with a significant focus on subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their main research topics include:

  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Face recognition and analysis
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms

Burton's recent papers demonstrate engagement with face perception, matching abilities, and the perception of threat and intent from vocal and facial cues. Examples include:

  • Individual differences and the multidimensional nature of face perception, 2022, Nature Reviews Psychology
  • GFMT2: A psychometric measure of face matching ability, 2021, Behavior Research Methods
  • Perception of threat and intent to harm from vocal and facial cues, 2023, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Familiarity is familiarity is familiarity: Event-related brain potentials reveal qualitatively similar representations of personally familiar and famous faces., 2021, Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition
  • Multiple-image arrays in face matching tasks with and without memory, 2021, Cognition

Their frequent co-authors include Holger Wiese, Andrew W. Young, Mila Mileva, Matthew C. Fysh, and Cade McCall.

Burton has published regularly in journals such as:

  • Journal of Vision
  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Perception
  • Cognition
  • Behavior Research Methods

Their extensive publication record spans areas of cognitive neuroscience and computer vision, addressing issues related to face perception, recognition, and psychological aspects of human behavior. This work combines interdisciplinary approaches involving neural, behavioral, and computational methods.

Best Publications

  • Understanding face recognition with an interactive activation model.

    A. Mike Burton;Vicki Bruce;Robert A. Johnston

  • Recognition of unfamiliar faces

    Peter J.B. Hancock;Vicki Bruce;A.Mike Burton

  • Face Recognition in Poor-Quality Video: Evidence From Security Surveillance:

    A. Mike Burton;Stephen Wilson;Michelle Cowan;Vicki Bruce

  • Verification of face identities from images captured on video.

    Vicki Bruce;Zoë Henderson;Karen Greenwood;Peter J. B. Hancock

  • Variability in Photos of the Same Face.

    Rob Jenkins;David White;Xandra Van Montfort;A. Mike Burton

  • The Glasgow Face Matching Test.

    A. Mike Burton;David White;Allan McNeill

  • A principal component analysis of facial expressions

    Andrew J Calder;A.Mike Burton;Paul Miller;Andrew W Young

  • Event-related brain potential evidence for a response of inferior temporal cortex to familiar face repetitions

    Stefan R Schweinberger;Esther C Pickering;Ines Jentzsch;A.Mike Burton

  • Unfamiliar faces are not faces: Evidence from a matching task

    Ahmed M. Megreya;A. Mike Burton

  • Sex Discrimination: How Do We Tell the Difference between Male and Female Faces?:

    V Bruce;A M Burton;E Hanna;P Healey

  • Matching identities of familiar and unfamiliar faces caught on CCTV images

    Vicki Bruce;Zoë Henderson;Craig Newman;A. Mike Burton

  • Attention capture by faces.

    Stephen R.H. Langton;Anna S. Law;A. Mike Burton;Stefan R. Schweinberger

  • From Pixels to People: A Model of Familiar Face Recognition

    A Mike Burton;Vicki Bruce;Peter J B Hancock

  • FACE PROCESSING : HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS

    Peter J. B. Hancock;A. Mike Burton;Vicki Bruce

  • Robust Representations for Face Recognition: The Power of Averages

    A. Mike Burton;Rob Jenkins;Peter J.B. Hancock;David White

  • Passport officers' errors in face matching.

    David White;Richard I. Kemp;Rob Jenkins;Michael Matheson

  • N250r: a face-selective brain response to stimulus repetitions.

    Stefan R. Schweinberger;Vyv Huddy;A. Mike Burton

  • Why has research in face recognition progressed so slowly? : The importance of variability

    A. Mike Burton

  • Matching Faces to Photographs: Poor Performance in Eyewitness Memory (without the Memory).

    Ahmed M. Megreya;A. Mike Burton

  • Covert recognition and the neural system for face processing.

    Stefan R. Schweinberger;A. Mike Burton

Frequent Co-Authors

Rob Jenkins
Rob Jenkins University of York
Vicki Bruce
Vicki Bruce Newcastle University
Stefan R. Schweinberger
Stefan R. Schweinberger Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Markus Bindemann
Markus Bindemann University of Kent
Andrew W. Young
Andrew W. Young University of York
Peter J. B. Hancock
Peter J. B. Hancock University of Stirling
Andrew W. Ellis
Andrew W. Ellis University of York
Romina Palermo
Romina Palermo University of Western Australia
Timothy J. Andrews
Timothy J. Andrews University of York
Sally Andrews
Sally Andrews University of Sydney

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