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2026

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116
Citations
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304
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  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Andrew W. Young is affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom. Their research predominantly spans the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology, with focused work in subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Social Psychology, and Plant Science.

The scientist's work covers multiple main topics, including Face Recognition and Perception, Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Face Recognition and Analysis, Multisensory Perception and Integration, Deception Detection and Forensic Psychology, and Aesthetic Perception and Analysis.

Frequent publication venues for Andrew W. Young include the British Journal of Psychology with four publications, Cognition with three, Cognition & Emotion and Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology each with two, and Trends in Cognitive Sciences with one.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Andrew W. Young include:

  • Face and Voice Perception: Understanding Commonalities and Differences, 2020, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Understanding trait impressions from faces, 2022, British Journal of Psychology
  • Emotion recognition ability: Evidence for a supramodal factor and its links to social cognition, 2020, Cognition
  • 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
  • Detecting a viewer's familiarity with a face: Evidence from event-related brain potentials and classifier analyses, 2021, Psychophysiology

Frequent coauthors include A. Mike Burton, Holger Wiese, Clare Sutherland, Hannah L. Connolly, and Gary J. Lewis. Collaborative efforts with these researchers have contributed to multiple publications within the overlapping research domains.

Best Publications

  • Understanding face recognition

    Vicki Bruce;Andy Young

  • A differential neural response in the human amygdala to fearful and happy facial expressions

    J. S. Morris;C. D. Frith;D. I. Perrett;D. Rowland

  • A specific neural substrate for perceiving facial expressions of disgust

    Mary Phillips;A W Young;C Senior;Michael Brammer

  • Configurational Information in Face Perception

    Andrew W Young;Deborah Hellawell;Dennis C Hay

  • A neuromodulatory role for the human amygdala in processing emotional facial expressions

    J. S. Morris;K. J. Friston;C. Buchel;C. D. Frith

  • Neuropsychology of fear and loathing.

    Andrew J. Calder;Andrew David Lawrence;Andrew W. Young

  • Human Cognitive Neuropsychology

    Andrew W. Ellis;Andrew W. Young

  • Recognition of facial emotion in nine individuals with bilateral amygdala damage.

    R Adolphs;D Tranel;S Hamann;A.W Young

  • Understanding the recognition of facial identity and facial expression

    Andrew J. Calder;Andrew W. Young

  • Impaired recognition and experience of disgust following brain injury.

    Andrew J. Calder;Jill Keane;Facundo Manes;Nagui Antoun

  • Neural responses to facial and vocal expressions of fear and disgust

    Mary Phillips;A W Young;Sarah Scott;A J Calder

  • Emotion perception from dynamic and static body expressions in point-light and full-light displays.

    Anthony P Atkinson;Winand H Dittrich;Andrew J Gemmell;Andrew W Young

  • In the Eye of the Beholder: The Science of Face Perception

    Vicki Bruce;Andrew W. Young

  • Impaired auditory recognition of fear and anger following bilateral amygdala lesions

    Sophie K. Scott;Andrew W. Young;Andrew J. Calder;Deborah J. Hellawell

  • Configural information in facial expression perception.

    Andrew J. Calder;Andrew W. Young;Jill Keane;Michael Dean

  • A differential pattern of neural response toward sad versus happy facial expressions in major depressive disorder.

    Simon Surguladze;Michael J. Brammer;Paul Keedwell;Vincent Giampietro

  • Accounting for delusional misidentifications.

    Hadyn D. Ellis;Andrew W. Young

  • Facial expression megamix: Tests of dimensional and category accounts of emotion recognition

    Andrew W. Young;Duncan Rowland;Andrew J. Calder;Nancy L. Etcoff

  • Recognition accuracy and response bias to happy and sad facial expressions in patients with major depression.

    Simon A. Surguladze;Andrew W. Young;Carl Senior;Gildas Brébion

  • Loss of disgust. Perception of faces and emotions in Huntington's disease.

    Reiner Sprengelmeyer;Andrew W. Young;Andrew J. Calder;Anke Karnat

  • Aspects of face processing

    Hadyn D. Ellis;Malcolm A. Jeeves;Freda Newcombe;Andy Young

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew W. Ellis
Andrew W. Ellis University of York
Timothy J. Andrews
Timothy J. Andrews University of York
Andrew J. Calder
Andrew J. Calder University of Cambridge
A. Mike Burton
A. Mike Burton University of York
Hadyn D. Ellis
Hadyn D. Ellis Cardiff University
Mary L. Phillips
Mary L. Phillips University of Pittsburgh
Freda Newcombe
Freda Newcombe University of Oxford
Edward H.F. de Haan
Edward H.F. de Haan Radboud University
David I. Perrett
David I. Perrett University of St Andrews
Vicki Bruce
Vicki Bruce Newcastle University

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