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Overview

Emily S. Cross is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields with a primary focus on psychology and neuroscience, producing a body of work that intersects social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Cross's subfields of expertise are:

  • Social Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Sociology and Political Science

Their research themes incorporate a diverse range of topics, notably:

  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Social Robot Interaction and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • AI in Service Interactions
  • Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Cross include:

  • Kohinoor Monish Darda
  • Ryssa Moffat
  • Nathan Caruana
  • Guy Laban
  • Richard Ramsey

The scientist regularly publishes in a set of recurring venues which include:

  • Scientific Reports
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • International Journal of Social Robotics
  • Cognition
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Cross are:

  • "What Makes a Robot Social? A Review of Social Robots from Science Fiction to a Home or Hospital Near You" (2021) published in Current Robotics Reports
  • "Social Robots on a Global Stage: Establishing a Role for Culture During Human-Robot Interaction" (2020) published in International Journal of Social Robotics
  • "Social Cognition in the Age of Human-Robot Interaction" (2020) published in Trends in Neurosciences
  • "Mind Meets Machine: Towards a Cognitive Science of Human-Machine Interactions" (2020) published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • "Timing is everything: Dance aesthetics depend on the complexity of movement kinematics" (2020) published in Cognition

Best Publications

  • Building a motor simulation de novo: observation of dance by dancers.

    Emily S. Cross;Antonia F. de C. Hamilton;Scott T. Grafton

  • Sensitivity of the Action Observation Network to Physical and Observational Learning

    Emily S. Cross;Emily S. Cross;David J. M. Kraemer;David J. M. Kraemer;Antonia F. de C. Hamilton;William M. Kelley

  • Justify your alpha

    Daniel Lakens;Federico G. Adolfi;Federico G. Adolfi;Casper J. Albers;Farid Anvari

  • Neurocognitive control in dance perception and performance

    Bettina Bläsing;Beatriz Calvo-Merino;Emily S. Cross;Emily S. Cross;Corinne Jola

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

    Emily S. Cross;Emily S. Cross;Emily S. Cross;Louise Kirsch;Luca Francesco Ticini;Simone Schütz-Bosbach

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

    Anna Henschel;Guy Laban;Emily S. Cross;Emily S. Cross

  • Neural substrates of contextual interference during motor learning support a model of active preparation

    Emily S. Cross;Paul J. Schmitt;Scott T. Grafton

  • Robotic movement preferentially engages the action observation network

    Emily S. Cross;Emily S. Cross;Roman Liepelt;Antonia F. de C. Hamilton;Jim Parkinson

  • Social robots on a global stage: establishing a role for culture during human-robot interaction

    Velvetina Lim;Maki Rooksby;Emily S. Cross;Emily S. Cross

  • Dissociable substrates for body motion and physical experience in the human action observation network.

    Emily S. Cross;Emily S. Cross;Antonia F. de C. Hamilton;David J. M. Kraemer;David J. M. Kraemer;William M. Kelley

  • The Perception of Emotion in Artificial Agents

    Ruud Hortensius;Felix Hekele;Emily S. Cross

  • Ventral and dorsal stream contributions to the online control of immediate and delayed grasping: a TMS approach.

    Nichola Rice Cohen;Emily S. Cross;Eugene Tunik;Scott T. Grafton;Scott T. Grafton

  • Shaping and reshaping the aesthetic brain: Emerging perspectives on the neurobiology of embodied aesthetics.

    Louise P. Kirsch;Cosimo Urgesi;Emily S. Cross;Emily S. Cross

  • Social Cognition in the Age of Human-Robot Interaction.

    Anna Henschel;Ruud Hortensius;Emily S. Cross;Emily S. Cross

  • Neuroaesthetics and beyond: new horizons in applying the science of the brain to the art of dance

    Emily S. Cross;Emily S. Cross;Luca Francesco Ticini

  • From social brains to social robots: applying neurocognitive insights to human-robot interaction

    Emily S. Cross;Ruud Hortensius;Agnieszka Wykowska

  • Mind Meets Machine: Towards a Cognitive Science of Human-Machine Interactions.

    Emily S. Cross;Emily S. Cross;Richard Ramsey

  • Do alternative names block young and older adults retrieval of proper names

    Emily S Cross;Deborah M Burke

  • Dynamic modulation of the action observation network by movement familiarity

    Tom Gardner;Nia Goulden;Emily S. Cross

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

    Ruud Hortensius;Ruud Hortensius;Emily S. Cross;Emily S. Cross

  • The control of automatic imitation based on bottom—up and top—down cues to animacy: Insights from brain and behavior

    André Klapper;Richard Ramsey;Daniël Wigboldus;Emily S. Cross

Frequent Co-Authors

Sukhvinder S. Obhi
Sukhvinder S. Obhi McMaster University
Antonia F. de C. Hamilton
Antonia F. de C. Hamilton University College London
Scott T. Grafton
Scott T. Grafton University of California, Santa Barbara
Wolfgang Prinz
Wolfgang Prinz Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Simone Schütz-Bosbach
Simone Schütz-Bosbach Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Roman Liepelt
Roman Liepelt University of Hagen
Agnieszka Wykowska
Agnieszka Wykowska Italian Institute of Technology
Harriet Over
Harriet Over University of York
George L. Wolford
George L. Wolford Dartmouth College
William M. Kelley
William M. Kelley Dartmouth College

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