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Frank E. Pollick is a researcher affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Their work spans primarily the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with a substantial focus on cognitive neuroscience and social psychology as key subfields. The scope of their research encompasses experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, and artificial intelligence, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach.

The main topics investigated by Frank E. Pollick include action observation and synchronization, face recognition and perception, neural and behavioral psychology studies, visual perception and processing mechanisms, aesthetic perception and analysis, multisensory perception and integration, as well as autism spectrum disorder research.

Pollick has contributed to numerous academic venues, frequently publishing in:

  • Journal of Vision
  • PLoS ONE
  • Neuropsychologia
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience

Their recent papers highlight varied interests and collaborations, including studies such as:

  • "Brain circuits signaling the absence of emotion in body language" (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Upregulation of Supplementary Motor Area Activation with fMRI Neurofeedback during Motor Imagery" (2020, eNeuro)
  • "Understanding and supporting law enforcement professionals working with distressing material: Findings from a qualitative study" (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • "Multimodal Biosensing for Vestibular Network-Based Cybersickness Detection" (2021, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics)
  • "Hyperalignment of motor cortical areas based on motor imagery during action observation" (2020, Scientific Reports)

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Stephen Brewster
  • Greta K. Todorova
  • Gang Li
  • Mark McGill
  • Hongjing Lu

Best Publications

  • Vision in autism spectrum disorders

    David R. Simmons;Ashley E. Robertson;Lawrie S. McKay;Erin Toal

  • Perceiving affect from arm movement

    Frank E Pollick;Helena M Paterson;Armin Bruderlin;Anthony J Sanford

  • Using humanoid robots to study human behavior

    C.G. Atkeson;J.G. Hale;F. Pollick;M. Riley

  • Gender recognition from point-light walkers.

    Frank E. Pollick;Jim W. Kay;Katrin Heim;Rebecca Stringer

  • A motion capture library for the study of identity, gender, and emotion perception from biological motion.

    Yingliang Ma;Helena M. Paterson;Frank E. Pollick

  • Language-based multimodal displays for the handover of control in autonomous cars

    Ioannis Politis;Stephen Brewster;Frank Pollick

  • Exaggerating Temporal Differences Enhances Recognition of Individuals from Point Light Displays

    Harold Hill;Frank E. Pollick

  • Motor Simulation without Motor Expertise: Enhanced Corticospinal Excitability in Visually Experienced Dance Spectators

    Corinne Jola;Ali Abedian-Amiri;Annapoorna Kuppuswamy;Frank E. Pollick

  • Estimating the efficiency of recognizing gender and affect from biological motion.

    Frank E. Pollick;Vaia Lestou;Jungwon Ryu;Sung Bae Cho

  • A meta-analysis of working memory in individuals with autism spectrum disorders.

    Abdullah Habib;Leanne Harris;Frank Pollick;Craig Melville

  • Multisensory integration of drumming actions: musical expertise affects perceived audiovisual asynchrony

    Karin Petrini;Sofia Dahl;Davide Rocchesso;Carl Haakon Waadeland

  • Empirical evaluation of the uncanny valley hypothesis fails to confirm the predicted effect of motion

    Lukasz Piwek;Lawrie S. McKay;Frank E. Pollick

  • Discriminating rigid from nonrigid motion: minimum points and views.

    Myron L. Braunstein;Donald D. Hoffman;Frank E. Pollick

  • Recognising the style of spatially exaggerated tennis serves.

    Frank E. Pollick;Cali Fidopiastis;Vic Braden

  • Functional Differentiation of Macaque Visual Temporal Cortical Neurons Using a Parametric Action Space

    Joris Vangeneugden;Frank Pollick;Rufin Vogels

  • A psychophysical investigation of differences between synchrony and temporal order judgments.

    Scott A. Love;Scott A. Love;Karin Petrini;Adam Cheng;Frank E. Pollick

  • Evaluating multimodal driver displays under varying situational urgency

    Ioannis Politis;Stephen A. Brewster;Frank Pollick

  • Constant affine velocity predicts the 1/3 power law of planar motion perception and generation.

    Frank E. Pollick;Guillermo Sapiro

  • Neural substrates for action understanding at different description levels in the human brain

    Vaia Lestou;Frank E. Pollick;Zoe Kourtzi

  • Biological motion perception in autism spectrum disorder: a meta-analysis.

    Greta Krasimirova Todorova;Rosalind Elizabeth Mcbean Hatton;Frank Earl Pollick

  • Recognising facial expression from spatially and temporally modified movements.

    Frank E Pollick;Harold C Hill;Andrew Calder;Helena Paterson

Frequent Co-Authors

Marina Pavlova
Marina Pavlova University of Tübingen
Christopher G. Atkeson
Christopher G. Atkeson Carnegie Mellon University
Anthony J. Sanford
Anthony J. Sanford University of Glasgow
Kerri L. Johnson
Kerri L. Johnson University of California, Los Angeles
Simon Garrod
Simon Garrod University of Glasgow
Heinrich H. Bülthoff
Heinrich H. Bülthoff Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Kim A. Bard
Kim A. Bard University of Portsmouth
Pascal Mamassian
Pascal Mamassian École Normale Supérieure
Nikolaus F. Troje
Nikolaus F. Troje York University
Eran Zaidel
Eran Zaidel University of California, Los Angeles

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