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Overview

Glyn W. Humphreys was affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and contributed extensively to the fields of neuroscience and psychology. Their work mainly focused on cognitive neuroscience and social psychology, investigating neural and behavioral psychology studies, social and intergroup psychology, and various aspects related to moral, emotional judgment, and decision-making.

Humphreys' research output includes multiple recent papers published across several notable venues. The following are key publications along with their year of publication and venues:

  • Attentional saliency and ingroup biases: From society to the brain (2020), Social Neuroscience
  • A process-specific approach in the study of normal aging deficits in cognitive control: What deteriorates with age? (2022), Acta Psychologica
  • Handgrip Based Action Information Modulates Attentional Selection: An ERP Study (2021), Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Intermediate, Wholistic Shape Representation in Object Recognition: A Pre-Attentive Stage of Processing? (2021), Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Their scholarly collaboration network included frequent co-authors such as Vicki Bruce, Rob Ellis, M. Jane Riddoch, Zahra Moradi, and Abdolrahman Najlerahim, indicating an interdisciplinary approach to research with multiple joint publications.

Humphreys published several book titles with Psychology Press eBooks, including:

  • Connectionist psychology: A text with readings (2020)
  • Visual Cognition (2021)

The scientist contributed to journals that include Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Social Neuroscience, and Acta Psychologica, reflecting a range of interests within cognitive and social scientific disciplines.

Their research topics consistently covered diverse subjects such as behavioral health and interventions, cultural differences and values, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, social and intergroup psychology, and decision-making and behavioral economics. These areas highlight a focus on understanding neural mechanisms underlying behavior, cognition, and social processes.

Best Publications

  • Visual search and stimulus similarity.

    John Duncan;Glyn W. Humphreys

  • Basic processes in reading : visual word recognition

    Derek Besner;Glyn W. Humphreys

  • Cascade processes in picture identification

    G. W. Humphreys;M. J. Riddoch;P. T. Quinlan

  • Early, involuntary top-down guidance of attention from working memory.

    David Soto;Dietmar Heinke;Glyn W. Humphreys;Manuel J. Blanco

  • Competitive brain activity in visual attention

    John Duncan;Glyn Humphreys;Robert Ward

  • Left temporoparietal junction is necessary for representing someone else's belief

    Dana Samson;Ian A Apperly;Claudia Chiavarino;Glyn W Humphreys

  • Hierarchies, similarity, and interactivity in object recognition: "category-specific" neuropsychological deficits.

    Glyn W. Humphreys;Emer M. E. Forde

  • Automatic guidance of attention from working memory.

    David Soto;John Hodsoll;Pia Rotshtein;Glyn W. Humphreys

  • Beyond the search surface: visual search and attentional engagement.

    John Duncan;Glyn Humphreys

  • Visual marking: prioritizing selection for new objects by top-down attentional inhibition of old objects.

    Derrick G. Watson;Glyn W. Humphreys

  • Segregating semantic from phonological processes during reading

    C. J. Price;C. J. Moore;G. W. Humphreys;R. J. S. Wise

  • Visual object processing in optic aphasia: A case of semantic access agnosia

    M. Jane Riddoch;Glyn W. Humphreys

  • Visual cognition : computational, experimental, and neuropsychological perspectives

    Glyn W. Humphreys;Vicki Bruce

  • The Integrative Self: How Self-Reference Integrates Perception and Memory.

    Jie Sui;Glyn W. Humphreys

  • The effect of cueing on unilateral neglect.

    M J Riddoch;G W Humphreys

  • Are there independent lexical and nonlexical routes in word processing? An evaluation of the dual-route theory of reading

    Glyn W. Humphreys;Lindsay J. Evett

  • A CASE OF INTEGRATIVE VISUAL AGNOSIA

    M J Riddoch;G W Humphreys

  • The similarity-in-topography principle: reconciling theories of conceptual deficits.

    W. Kyle Simmons;Lawrence W. Barsalou

  • Perceptual effects of social salience: evidence from self-prioritization effects on perceptual matching.

    Jie Sui;Xun He;Glyn W. Humphreys

  • To See But Not To See: A Case Study Of Visual Agnosia

    Glyn W. Humphreys;M. Jane Riddoch

Frequent Co-Authors

M. Jane Riddoch
M. Jane Riddoch University of Oxford
Jie Sui
Jie Sui University of Bath
Derrick G. Watson
Derrick G. Watson University of Warwick
Pia Rotshtein
Pia Rotshtein University of Birmingham
David Soto
David Soto Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language
Christian N. L. Olivers
Christian N. L. Olivers Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Shihui Han
Shihui Han Peking University
Dana Samson
Dana Samson Université Catholique de Louvain
Ian A. Apperly
Ian A. Apperly University of Birmingham
Hermann J. Müller
Hermann J. Müller Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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