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Overview

Alan Slater is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields and subfields within psychology and medicine, with a focus on areas related to mental health, developmental psychology, and cognitive processes.

The main fields of study in Slater's work include:

  • Psychology
  • Medicine

Within these fields, their research covers several subfields:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Epidemiology
  • Pharmacology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology

Slater's research topics are diverse, addressing both clinical and developmental issues. Major topics in their body of work are:

  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Spatial Cognition and Navigation
  • Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
  • Aesthetic Perception and Analysis

Their recent publications demonstrate these interests with a range of research articles, including:

  • Critical Response IV: This Photo Does Not Exist: Generativity and the AI Gaze, 2024, Critical Inquiry
  • Pharmacological therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis of monotherapy, augmentation and head-to-head approaches, 2021, European Journal of Psychotraumatology
  • Pharmacological-assisted Psychotherapy for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2021, European Journal of Psychotraumatology
  • Orientation Effects in the Development of Linear Object Tracking in Early Infancy, 2020, Child Development
  • Eye tracking provides no evidence that young infants understand path obstruction, 2021, Infant Behavior and Development

Slater has published multiple papers in several prominent venues. The most frequent publication sources are:

  • European Journal of Psychotraumatology
  • Critical Inquiry
  • Child Development
  • Infant Behavior and Development
  • BJPsych Open

Their collaboration network includes frequent coauthors such as:

  • Mathew Hoskins
  • Robert Sinnerton
  • Anna Nakamura
  • Jack F. G. Underwood
  • Liam Clarke

Alan Slater's work reflects a multidisciplinary approach, combining clinical research with developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Their contributions cover both theoretical analyses and applied research, particularly in the understanding and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder and developmental cognitive functions.

Best Publications

  • The Other-Race Effect Develops During Infancy Evidence of Perceptual Narrowing

    David J. Kelly;Paul C. Quinn;Alan M. Slater;Kang Lee

  • Representation of the Gender of Human Faces by Infants: A Preference for Female

    Paul C Quinn;Joshua Yahr;Abbie Kuhn;Alan M Slater

  • Three-month-olds, but not newborns, prefer own-race faces

    David J. Kelly;Paul C. Quinn;Alan M. Slater;Kang Lee

  • Preverbal Infants’ Sensitivity to Synaesthetic Cross-Modality Correspondences

    Peter Walker;J. Gavin Bremner;Ursula Mason;Joanne Spring

  • Newborn infants prefer attractive faces

    Alan Slater;Charlotte Von der Schulenburg;Elizaabeth Brown;Marion Badenoch

  • Development of the other-race effect during infancy: Evidence toward universality?

    David J. Kelly;Shaoying Liu;Kang Lee;Paul C. Quinn

  • Cross-Race Preferences for Same-Race Faces Extend Beyond the African Versus Caucasian Contrast in 3-Month-Old Infants.

    David J. Kelly;Shaoying Liu;Liezhong Ge;Paul C. Quinn

  • Size constancy at birth: newborn infants' responses to retinal and real size

    Alan Slater;Anne Mattock;Elizabeth Brown

  • Newborn and older infants' perception of partly occluded objects☆

    Alan Slater;Victoria Morison;Marcia Somers;Anne Mattock

  • Assessing emotion recognition in 9-15-years olds: preliminary analysis of abilities in reading emotion from faces, voices and eyes.

    James Tonks;W Huw Williams;Ian Frampton;Phil Yates

  • Categorization, categorical perception, and asymmetry in infants' representation of face race.

    Gizelle Anzures;Paul C. Quinn;Olivier Pascalis;Alan M. Slater

  • Perceptual training prevents the emergence of the other race effect during infancy.

    Michelle Heron-Delaney;Gizelle Anzures;Jane S. Herbert;Paul C. Quinn

  • Developmental Origins of the Other-Race Effect:

    Gizelle Anzures;Paul C. Quinn;Olivier Pascalis;Alan M. Slater

  • Newborn Infants' Preference for Attractive Faces: The Role of Internal and External Facial Features

    Alan Slater;Gavin Bremner;Scott P. Johnson;Penny Sherwood

  • Two faces of the other-race effect: recognition and categorisation of Caucasian and Chinese faces.

    Liezhong Ge;Hongchuan Zhang;Zhe Wang;Paul C Quinn

  • Visual deficits in children born at less than 32 weeks' gestation with and without major ocular pathology and cerebral damage.

    H J Dowdeswell;A M Slater;J Broomhall;J Tripp

  • Shape constancy and slant perception at birth.

    Alan Slater;Victoria Morison

  • Dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) fail to show understanding of means-end connections in a string-pulling task.

    Britta Osthaus;Stephen E. G. Lea;Alan M. Slater

  • Intermodal perception at birth: Intersensory redundancy guides newborn infants’ learning of arbitrary auditory−visual pairings

    Alan Slater;Paul C. Quinn;Elizabeth Brown;Rachel Hayes

  • Brief daily exposures to Asian females reverses perceptual narrowing for Asian faces in Caucasian infants

    Gizelle Anzures;Andrea Wheeler;Paul C. Quinn;Olivier Pascalis

  • Infant preference for female faces occurs for same- but not other-race faces.

    Paul C. Quinn;Lesley Uttley;Kang Lee;Alan Gibson

  • Infant Development: Recent Advances

    J. Gavin Bremner;Alan Slater;George Butterworth

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul C. Quinn
Paul C. Quinn University of Delaware
Olivier Pascalis
Olivier Pascalis Grenoble Alpes University
Kang Lee
Kang Lee University of Toronto
Scott P. Johnson
Scott P. Johnson University of California, Los Angeles
James W. Tanaka
James W. Tanaka University of Victoria
Stephen E. G. Lea
Stephen E. G. Lea University of Exeter
John M. Findlay
John M. Findlay Durham University
Marc H. Bornstein
Marc H. Bornstein National Institutes of Health
David J. Lewkowicz
David J. Lewkowicz Northeastern University
Carroll E. Izard
Carroll E. Izard University of Delaware

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