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Professor Patric Bach

Professor Patric Bach
Professor Patric Bach
Professor Patric Bach

Chair in Psychology

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Email Address
patric.bach@abdn.ac.uk
Office Address
S02 William Guild Building
Old Aberdeen Campus
110 St. Machar Drive
AB24 2UB

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School/Department
School of Psychology





Research

Research Overview

My investigates how people plan their own actions and understand those of others. In particular, I investigate how prior expectations influence how we perceive and understand , how people are able to mentally rotate into the of other people, and how people are able to control their .

Research Areas

Psychology

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Research Specialisms

  • Psychology
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Research Methods in Psychology

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is , published under the licence.

Current Research

I have been awarded £462.995 to study how prior expectations about other people shape how we experience their actions, and how their actions in turn changes how we see these people. To do so, we rely on behavioral as well as neuroimaging methods (EEG/fMRI).

In addition, we are currently completing a small grant from the Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) on the mechanisms underlying visual perspective taking, and two SGSSS-funded PhD projects on Human-Robot-Interaction and deep learning models of human social perception.

Funding and Grants

2020 – 2026. Leverhulme Trust. Social perception as Bayesian hypothesis testing and revision. £462,995.

2023 – 2027. Resolving how prior expectations shape the perception of other people’s behaviour with deep learning networks. SGSSS/ESRC-funded PhD studentship through the Advanced Quantitative Methods competition (with Dr Georgios Leontidis).

2022 – 2023. EPS. Underlying Mechanisms of Visual Perspective taking. £9,380 (with Dr Katrina McDonough)

2021 – 2025. Number 5 is alive! Attribution of knowledge and intention in human-robot interactions. Hauptantragsteller. SGSSS/ESRC-funded PhD studentship through the Interdisciplinary competition (with Dr Elena Giannaccini). £60,388/€68,745.

2013 – 2016. Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). One step ahead: Prediction of other people's behaviour in healthy and autistic individuals. £270,569.

2014 – 2015.  British Academy/Leverhulme Trust. Only the winning moves: How causality shapes automatic imitation in children. £9.715.

2016 – 2017. Alzheimer Research UK. The Alzheimer’s Research UK South West (ARUKSW) Brain-image database. Co-investigator (with Dr. Matt Roser). £5.000.

2014 – 2016. South West Alzheimer/Dementia Network. Normal ageing and the precursors of dementia investigated using brain imaging. Co-investigator (with Dr. Matt Roser). £2.800.

Teaching

Courses

Teaching Responsibilities

Level 2: Advanced Psychology B, Concepts And Theory PS2517: An introduction to brain functional anatomy

Level 3: Biological Psychology PS3014: Neuroscience and the Law

Level 3: Methodology B PS3522: Practical research project

Level 4: Current Topics in Psychological Studies PS4040: Cognitive Penetrability of Perception

Level 4: Critical Review PS4041: Whatever happened to Mirror Neurons?

Level 5: Professional Research Skills PS5520: History of Psychology and Psychology as a Science

Publications

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  • Visual Perspective-taking and Image-like Representations: We Can See it

    Aldrich, L., McDonough, K. L., Timmermans, B., Bach, P.
    Cognition, vol. 278, 106699
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  • You Still Intend to Move: Inferred mental states imply motion to static body postures

    Harlow, R., Biggs, H., Bach, P., Hudson, M.
    Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • On Meta-Inference in Artificial Systems: Self-Regulating the Perceived Minds of Robots

    Currie, J. W., Stewart, B., Litt, I., Finch, E., Aldrich, L. P., Timmermans, B., Giannaccini, M. E., Bach, P.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • Exposure to false cardiac feedback alters pain perception and anticipatory cardiac frequency

    Parrotta, E., Bach, P., Pezzulo, G., Zaccaro, A., Perrucci, M. G., Costantini, M., Ferri, F.
    eLife, vol. 12, RP90013
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Expression ambiguity leads to greater influence of predictive context during face emotion perception

    Pullinen, V. A., Phillips, L., Bach, P., Golubickis, M., Newlands, A., Jackson, M. C.
    Cognition & Emotion
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Sonic Sleight of Hand: Sound induces illusory distortions in the perception and prediction of robot action

    Currie, J. W., Giannaccini, M., Bach, P.
    International Journal of Social Robotics, vol. 17, no. 10, pp. 1957-1975
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Observers translate information about other agents’ higher-order goals into expectations about their forthcoming action kinematics

    McDonough, K., Parrotta, E., Enwereuzor, C. U., Bach, P.
    Cognition, vol. 259, 106112
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Towards Embodied Cognition in Robots via Spatially Grounded Synthetic Worlds

    Currie, J., Migno, G., Piacenti, E., Giannaccini, M. E., Bach, P., Tommaso, D. D., Wykowska, A.
    Working Papers: Preprint Papers
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  • Mind Meld or Mismatch: A Comparison of Visual Perspective Taking Towards Humans and Robots in Face-to-Face Interactions

    Currie, J., McDonough, K. L., Wykowska, A., Giannaccini, M. E., Bach, P.
    Working Papers: Preprint Papers
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  • Why motor imagery is not really motoric: towards a re-conceptualization in terms of effect-based action control

    Bach, P., Frank, C., Kunde, W.
    Psychological Research, vol. 88, no. 6, pp. 1790–1804
    Contributions to Journals: Review articles
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  • Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things: Threat Expectancy Induces the Illusory Perception of Increased Heartrate

    Parrotta, E., Bach, P., Perrucci, M. G., Costantini, M., Ferri, F.
    Cognition, vol. 245, 105719
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • More Than Meets the Eye? An Experimental Design to Test Robot Visual Perspective-Taking Facilitators Beyond Mere-Appearance

    Currie, J. W., McDonough, K., Wykowska, A., Giannaccini, M., Bach, P.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • Consequential sound induces illusory distortions in the perception and prediction of robot motion

    Currie, J., Giannaccini, M. E., Bach, P.
    Working Papers: Preprint Papers
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  • Expectations of efficient actions bias social perception: a pre-registered online replication

    McDonough, K. L., Bach, P.
    Royal Society Open Science, vol. 10, no. 2, 220889
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Editorial: Predictive mechanisms in action, perception, cognition, and clinical disorders

    D'Mello, A. M., Bach, P., Corlett, P. R., Rozenkrantz, L.
    Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, vol. 16, 1005905
    Contributions to Journals: Editorials
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  • Is Implicit Level-2 Visual perspective taking embodied? Spontaneous perceptual simulation of others’ perspectives is not impaired by motor restriction

    Ward, E., Ganis, G., McDonough, D. K. L., Bach, P.
    Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 75, no. 7, pp. 1244–1258
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Predictive Action Perception from Explicit Intention Information in Autism

    Hudson, M., Nicholson, T., Kharko, A., McKenzie, R., Bach, P.
    Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 1556-1566
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Editorial: Behavioral and Neural Bases of Object Affordance Processing and Its Clinical Implications

    Kumar, S., Bach, P., Kourtis, D.
    Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, vol. 15, 759377
    Contributions to Journals: Editorials
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  • Predictive person models elicit motor biases: the face-inhibition effect revisited

    Schenke, K. C., Wyer, N., Tipper, S., Bach, P.
    Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 74, no. 1, pp. 54-67
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Affordance matching predictively shapes the perceptual representation of others’ ongoing actions

    McDonough, K. L., Costantini, M., Hudson, M., Ward, E., Bach, P.
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 46, no. 8, pp. 847-859
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Perspective taking as virtual navigation? Perceptual simulation of what others see reflects their location in space but not their gaze

    Ward, E., Ganis, G., McDonough, K. L., Bach, P.
    Cognition, vol. 199, 104241
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Cues to intention bias action perception toward the most efficient trajectory

    McDonough, K. L., Hudson, M., Bach, P.
    Scientific Reports, vol. 9, 6472
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Spontaneous Vicarious Perception of the Content of Another's Visual Perspective

    Ward, E., Ganis, G., Bach, P.
    Current Biology, vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 874-880
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Perceptual teleology: expectations of action efficiency bias social perception

    Hudson, M., McDonough, K. L., Edwards, R., Bach, P.
    Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences, vol. 285, no. 1884, 20180638
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • You Said You Would! The Predictability of Other's Behavior From Their Intentions Determines Predictive Biases in Action Perception

    Hudson, M., Bach, P., Nicholson, T.
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 320-335
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Intention Insertion: Activating an Action's Perceptual Consequences Is Sufficient to Induce Non-Willed Motor Behavior

    Colton, J., Bach, P., Whalley, B., Mitchell, C.
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, vol. 147, no. 8, pp. 1256-1263
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Testing the Motor Simulation Account of Source Errors for Actions in Recall

    Lange, N., Hollins, T. J., Bach, P.
    Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 8, 1686
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Predictive social perception: Towards a unifying framework from action observation to person knowledge

    Bach, P., Schenke, K. C.
    Social and Personality Psychology Compass , vol. 11, no. 7, e12312
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Understanding the Goals of Everyday Instrumental Actions Is Primarily Linked to Object, Not Motor-Kinematic, Information: Evidence from fMRI

    Nicholson, T., Roser, M., Bach, P.
    PloS ONE, vol. 12, no. 1, 0169700
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • The Things You Do: Internal Models of Others' Expected Behaviour Guide Action Observation

    Schenke, K. C., Wyer, N. A., Bach, P.
    PloS ONE, vol. 11, no. 7, e0158910
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • I see what you say: Prior knowledge of other's goals automatically biases the perception of their actions

    Hudson, M., Nicholson, T., Ellis, R., Bach, P.
    Cognition, vol. 146, pp. 245-250
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • One Step Ahead: The Perceived Kinematics of Others' Actions Are Biased Toward Expected Goals

    Hudson, M., Nicholson, T., Simpson, W. A., Ellis, R., Bach, P.
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, vol. 145, no. 1, pp. 1-7
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Looking ahead: Anticipatory cueing of attention to objects others will look at

    Joyce, K., Schenke, K., Bayliss, A., Bach, P.
    Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 7, no. 1-4, pp. 74-81
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Response: No need to match: a comment on Bach, Nicholson, and Hudson's "Affordance-Matching Hypothesis"

    Bach, P., Nicholson, T., Hudson, M.
    Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, vol. 9, 685
    Contributions to Journals: Letters
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  • Planning-Related Motor Processes Underlie Mental Practice and Imitation Learning

    Bach, P., Allami, B. K., Tucker, M., Ellis, R.
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, vol. 143, no. 3, pp. 1277-1294
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • The affordance-matching hypothesis: how objects guide action understanding and prediction

    Bach, P., Nicholson, T., Hudson, M.
    Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, vol. 8, 254
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Can't Touch This: The First-Person Perspective Provides Privileged Access to Predictions of Sensory Action Outcomes

    Bach, P., Fenton-Adams, W., Tipper, S. P.
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 457-464
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • "Feeling" others' painful actions: The sensorimotor integration of pain and action information

    Morrison, I., Tipper, S. P., Fenton-Adams, W. L., Bach, P.
    Human Brain Mapping, vol. 34, no. 8, pp. 1982-1998
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • The face inhibition effect: Social contrast or motor competition?

    Tipper, S. P., Bach, P.
    Journal of Cognitive Psychology, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 45-51
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • The predictive mirror: Interactions of mirror and affordance processes during action observation

    Bach, P., Bayliss, A. P., Tipper, S. P.
    Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 171-176
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • On the role of object information in action observation: An fMRI study

    Bach, P., Peelen, M. V., Tipper, S. P.
    Cerebral Cortex, vol. 20, no. 12, pp. 2798-2809
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Gesturing meaning: Non-action words activate the motor system

    Bach, P., Griffiths, D., Weigelt, M., Tipper, S. P.
    Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, vol. 4
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  • N400-like negativities in action perception reflect the activation of two components of an action representation

    Bach, P., Gunter, T. C., Knoblich, G., Prinz, W., Friederici, A. D.
    Social Neuroscience, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 212-232
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  • Your own actions influence how you perceive other people: A misattribution of action appraisals

    Tipper, S. P., Bach, P.
    Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 1082-1090
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Focusing on body sites: The role of spatial attention in action perception

    Bach, P., Peatfield, N. A., Tipper, S. P.
    Experimental Brain Research, vol. 178, no. 4, pp. 509-517
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Implicit action encoding influences personal-trait judgments

    Bach, P., Tipper, S. P.
    Cognition, vol. 102, no. 2, pp. 151-178
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Bend it like Beckham: Embodying the motor skills of famous athletes

    Bach, P., Tipper, S. P.
    Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 59, no. 12, pp. 2033-2039
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  • Action comprehension: Deriving spatial and functional relations

    Bach, P., Gunter, T. C., Friederici, A. D., Knoblich, G., Prinz, W.
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 465-479
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Communicating hands: ERPs elicited by meaningful symbolic hand postures

    Gunter, T. C., Bach, P.
    Neuroscience Letters, vol. 372, no. 1-2, pp. 52-56
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Cooperation of different neuronal systems during hand sign recognition

    Nakamura, A., Maess, B., Knösche, T. R., Gunter, T. C., Bach, P., Friederici, A. D.
    Neuroimage, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 25-34
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  • Comprehension of action sequences: The case of paper, scissors, rock

    Bach, P., Knoblich, G., Friederici, A. D., Prinz, W.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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