Senior Lecturer
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- Email Address
- m.jackson@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272236
- Office Address
School of Psychology William Guild Building Room G13 Kings College Old Aberdeen AB24 3FX
- School/Department
- School of Psychology
Biography
I graduated with a BSc (HONS) in Psychology from the 51cg, after which I achieved an MSc in Marketing from the University of Strathclyde. After a few years conducting qualitative research on health interventions and behaviours (Glasgow, Centre for Social Marketing - now Institute in Stirling) I joined the Psychology department at Bangor University in North Wales to help deliver and monitor a schools-based intervention designed to increase children's fruit and vegetable consumption ('Food Dudes' programme). I then returned to experimental Psychology and gained my PhD from Bangor University in 2005, which investigated the influence of familiarity on attention and working memory for faces. I completed two post-doc positions there before I moved back to where it all began to start my first lectureship in the School of Psychology in Aberdeen in 2012. My research areas are broadly situated within the field of social cognition, and more specifically focused on face, eye gaze, and emotional expression processing, predictive processing (emotion prediction), and the role of attention and working memory in social processing. More recently my interests have expanded to neurodiversity.
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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Student Development Lead in the School of Psychology
Co-Chair of the University's Neurodiversity Network
Committee/Group membership:
- Equality, Diversity, & Inclusion Committee, School of Psychology
- Student Experience and Support Committee, 51cg
- Mental Health and Wellbeing Group, 51cg
- Employability and Entrepreneurship Committee, 51cg
- External Memberships
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External Examiner for MSc Social Cognition course at UCL (postgraduate)
Aurora women in leadership course completion, 2021-22
Latest Publications
Expression ambiguity leads to greater influence of predictive context during face emotion perception
Cognition & EmotionContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
Gaze cues (repeatedly) fail to influence person evaluation
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 79, no. 1, pp. 124-144Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Aging and complex emotion perception: the influence of context and multimodal presentation
Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition, vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 907-925Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Competition between emotional faces in visuo-spatial working memory
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 68-81Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Impairments for faces but not for abstract shapes in developmental prosopagnosia: Evidence from visual working memory tasks
Cognitive Neuropsychology, vol. 41, no. 7-8, pp. 300-321Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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- Research
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Current Research
- Main research areas: Social Attention and Memory, Emotion Prediction, Emotion Processing, Gaze, Faces, Neurodiversity
Funding and Grants
ESRC Standard Grant (PI). March 2015 - March 2017. Remembering who was where: The influence of threatening emotional expressions on visuo-spatial working memory for faces. £279,258.
BBSRC (Co-App). 2009-2012. The neurobiology of human working memory for threat: a multi-method approach. £318,404.
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)
Lectures
- Level 1: Emotion
- Level 3 / MSc: Developmental Psychology (social and emotional development): Course coordinator
- Level 4: Emotion & Aging in Social Cognition: Course coordinator
- MRes: Research Dissemination and Peer-review
Group Work
- Level 3 Methods research projects
- Level 3 Theory tutorials
Undergraduate and postgraduate Thesis Supervision
- Publications
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Barriers block the effect of joint attention on working memory: Perspective taking matters
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, vol. 45, no. 5, pp. 795-806Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Effects of induced sad mood on facial emotion perception in young and older adults
Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 319-335Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Remembering who was where: A happy expression advantage for face identity-location binding in working memory
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, vol. 44, no. 9, pp. 1365-1383Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Eye gaze influences working memory for happy but not angry faces
Cognition & Emotion, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 719-728Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Face working memory deficits in developmental prosopagnosia: Tests of encoding limits and updating processes
Neuropsychologia, vol. 106, pp. 60-70Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Joint attention enhances visual working memory
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 237-249Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Variation in normal mood state influences sensitivity to dynamic changes in emotional expression
Emotion, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 145-149Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Similarity, not complexity, determines visual working memory performance
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, vol. 41, no. 6, pp. 1884-1892Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Eye guidance competition between emotional faces during encoding in working memory
13th conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP XIII)Contributions to Conferences: PostersAge differences in decoding complex emotions: does context matter?
The 5th Geneva Ageing SeriesContributions to Conferences: Abstracts