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Michael E R Nicholls

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Nicholls M, Churches O, Loetscher T
Sci Rep . 2018 Aug; 8(1):12661. PMID: 30139950
Although the perception of faces depends on low-level neuronal processes, it is also affected by high-level social processes. Faces from a social in-group, such as people of a similar age,...
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Thomas N, Nicholls M
Sci Rep . 2018 Mar; 8(1):5157. PMID: 29581447
Research using the irrelevant-distractor paradigm shows perceptual load influences distractibility, such that distractors are more likely to be processed and decrease reaction times during low perceptual load. In contrast, under...
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Carragher D, Lawrence B, Thomas N, Nicholls M
Sci Rep . 2018 Feb; 8(1):2548. PMID: 29416057
The cheerleader effect occurs when the same individual appears to be more attractive when seen in a group, compared to alone. As observers over-attend to visual information presented in the...
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Thomas N, Churches O, White I, Mohr C, Schrag Y, Obucina S, et al.
PLoS One . 2017 Oct; 12(10):e0186171. PMID: 29020027
When traversing through an aperture, such as a doorway, people characteristically deviate towards the right. This rightward deviation can be explained by a rightward attentional bias which leads to rightward...
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Wignall S, Thomas N, Nicholls M
Body Image . 2017 Oct; 23:135-145. PMID: 28992582
Although there is a growing consensus that women with anorexia nervosa have a distorted body schema, the origins of this disturbance remain uncertain. The present investigation examined the effects of...
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Saccone E, Szpak A, Churches O, Nicholls M
Atten Percept Psychophys . 2017 Sep; 80(1):54-68. PMID: 28864874
Research suggests that the human brain codes manipulable objects as possibilities for action, or affordances, particularly objects close to the body. Near-body space is not only a zone for body-environment...
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Giummarra M, Poudel G, Niu P, Nicholls M, Fielding J, Verdejo-Garcia A, et al.
Laterality . 2017 Jul; 23(2):184-208. PMID: 28701109
We investigated emotional processing in vicarious pain (VP) responders. VP responders report an explicit sensory and emotional feeling of pain when they witness another in pain, which is greater in...
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Carragher D, Thomas N, Nicholls M
Laterality . 2017 Mar; 23(1):20-38. PMID: 28276875
A turn of the head can be used to convey or conceal emotion, as the left side of the face is more expressive than the right. As the left cheek...
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Thomas N, Barone A, Flew A, Nicholls M
Neuropsychologia . 2017 Jan; 96:39-51. PMID: 28063992
Attention is asymmetrically distributed across the visual field, such that left side stimuli are more salient, which causes a spatial bias known as pseudoneglect. Although auditory cues can be used...
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Nicholls M, Hobson A, Petty J, Churches O, Thomas N
Brain Cogn . 2016 Dec; 111:134-143. PMID: 27923149
Pseudoneglect is the tendency for the general population to over-attend to the left. While pseudoneglect is classically demonstrated using line bisection, it also occurs for visual search. The current study...