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Dr Bert Timmermans

Dr Bert Timmermans
Dr Bert Timmermans
Dr Bert Timmermans

Senior Lecturer

About
Email Address
bert.timmermans@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 273483
Office Address
S9 William Guild Building
Old Aberdeen Campus
110 St. Machar Drive
AB24 2UB

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School of Psychology
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Biography

PhD project

Apply now for a competitive BBSRC EastBio 4-year PhD project "Sense of agency in interaction with AI versus humans" (deadline 27 Nov 2023, start 1 Oct 2024)

Qualifications

  • Higher Education Academy Fellow 
    2018 - University of Aberdeen 
  • PhD Psychology 
    2006 - Vrije Universiteit Brussel 
  • MSc Cognitive Science 
    1999 - Université Libre de Bruxelles 
  • MSc Psychology 
    1998 - Vrije Universiteit Brussel 

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships
External Memberships
  • ASSC Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
  • ESCoP European Society for Cognitive Psychology
Research

Research Overview

  • Social cognition: social interaction, action contingencies & interaction dynamics, gaze & eye tracking, social reward, virtual avatars, social agency. Consciousness: perceptual awareness and metacognition, implicit learning, subliminal perception, agency.

Current Research

Topics & Projects

Here's some of what's currently going on or will be in the near future. Undergraduates, prospective PhD students or postdocs, please enquire — people with skills in Python, Vizard, MatLab, eye tracking, or Cross-Recurrence Quantification Analysis (CRQA) are especially welcome:

  • Social cognition in interaction versus observation
  • Social versus monetary reward in social cognition & motor learning
  • Real-time gaze-based social interaction, analysis of interaction dynamics
  • Ascriptions of self- and other-agency in social interaction
  • Subjective measures of consciousness and metacognition

Supervision

Apply for a BBSRC EastBio PhD project "Sense of agency in interactions with AI versus humans" (deadline 27 Nov 2023, starting October 2024)

Current SInC lab members:

Former SInC lab members:

  • Antonietta Chaliou (PhD student, psychopathic traits and social facial expressions, with Lynden Miles / PhD 2023)
  • Chris Luke (Postdoc, Dual Interactive eye tracking with Virtual Avatars, 2016-17)
  • Iva Barišić (RA, Dual Interactive eye tracking with Virtual Avatars, 2010-13, Cologne)
  • Sarah Schwarzkopf (RA, visual perspective taking in autism, 2010-12, Cologne)

Funding and Grants

Principal Investigator

Other

Teaching

Courses

Teaching Responsibilities

Undergraduate

  • Level 1-3 — Psychology Methodology curriculum coordinator
  • Level 3 — PS3015 Methodology A [course coordinator; GLM/SPSS]
  • Level 3 — PS3522 Methodology B [course coordinator; GLM/SPSS; research project supervisor]
  • Level 3-4 — SX3504 Consciousness [course coordinator; Behavioural Measures]
  • Level 4 — PS4019 / PS4038 Psychology Thesis [supervision]

Postgraduate

  • MRes — PS5302 / PS5801 Basic & Advanced Research Methods for Postgraduates [R: ANOVA/Factor Analysis/Logistic regression] 
  • MRes — PS5017 Research Project for Postgraduate Students in Psychology [supervision]
  • MSc Psychological Studies — PS5903 Research Project [supervision]

 

Publications

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  • Partial awareness distinguishes between measuring conscious perception and conscious content: Reply to Dienes and Seth

    Timmermans, B., Sandberg, K., Cleeremans, A., Overgaard, M.
    Consciousness and Cognition, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 1081-1083
    Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates

  • Know thyself: metacognitive networks and measures of consciousness

    Pasquali, A., Timmermans, B., Cleeremans, A.
    Cognition, vol. 117, no. 2, pp. 182-190
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Experiencing more complexity than we can tell

    Timmermans, B., Windey, B., Cleeremans, A.
    Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 229-230
    Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates

  • Optimizing subjective measures of consciousness

    Overgaard, M., Timmermans, B., Sandberg, K., Cleeremans, A.
    Consciousness and Cognition, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 682-684
    Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates

  • How unconscious is subliminal perception?

    Overgaard, M., Timmermans, B.
    Handbook of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science. Gallagher, S., Schmicking, D. (eds.). Springer, pp. 501-518, 18 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Metacognitive networks and measures of consciousness

    Pasquali, A., Timmermans, B., Cleeremans, A.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Consciousness and metarepresentation: A computational sketch

    Cleeremans, A., Timmermans, B., Pasquali, A.
    Neural Networks, vol. 20, no. 9, pp. 1032-1039
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The geographic distribution of Big Five personality traits: Patterns and profiles of human self-description across 56 nations

    Schmitt, D. P., Allik, J., McCrae, R. R., Benet-Martínez, V., Alcalay, L., Ault, L., Austers, I., Bennett, K. L., Bianchi, G., Boholst, F., Borg Cunene, M. A., Braeckman, J., Brained Jr., E. G., Timmermans, B., Vanhoomissen, T., Van Overwalle, F.
    Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 173-212
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Discounting and the role of the relationship between causes

    Van Overwalle, F., Timmermans, B.
    European Journal of Social Psychology, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 199-223
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Patterns and Universals of Adult Romantic Attachment Across 62 Cultural Regions: Are Models of Self and of Other Pancultural Constructs?

    Schmitt, D. P., Alcalay, L., Allensworth, M., Allik, J., Ault, L., Austers, I., Bennett, K. L., Bianchi, G., Boholst, F., Cunen, M. A. B., Braeckman, J., Brainerd, E. G., Caral, L. G. A., Caron, G., Casullo, M. M., Cunningham, M., Daibo, I., De Backer, C., De Souza, E., Diaz-Loving, R., Diniz, G., Durkin, K., Echegaray, M., Eremsoy, E., Euler, H. A., Falzon, R., Fisher, M. L., Foley, D., Fowler, R., Fry, D. P., Fry, S., Ghayur, M. A., Giri, V. N., Golden, D. L., Grammer, K., Grimaldi, L., Halberstadt, J., Haque, S., Herrera, D., Hertel, J., Hitchell, A., Hoffmann, H., Hooper, D., Hradilekova, Z., Hudek-Kene-Evi, J., Huffcutt, A., Jaafar, J., Jankauskaite, M., Kabangu-Stahel, H., Kardum, I., Khoury, B., Kwon, H., Laidra, K., Laireiter, A., Lakerveld, D., Lampert, A., Lauri, M., LavallÉe, M., Lee, S., Leung, L. C., Locke, K. D., Locke, V., Luksik, I., Magaisa, I., Marcinkeviciene, D., Mata, A., Mata, R., Mccarthy, B., Mills, M. E., Mkhize, N. J., Moreira, J., Moreira, S., Moya, M., Munyae, M., Noller, P., Olimat, H., Opre, A., Panayiotou, A., Petrovic, N., Poels, K., Popper, M., Poulimenou, M., P'Yatokha, V., Raymond, M., Reips, U., Reneau, S. E., Rivera-Aragon, S., Rowatt, W. C., Ruch, W., Rus, V. S., Safir, M. P., Salas, S., Sambataro, F., Sandnabba, K. N., Schleeter, R., Schulmeyer, M. K., SchÜTz, A., Scrimali, T., Shackelford, T. K., Sharan, M. B., Shaver, P. R., Sichona, F., Simonetti, F., Sineshaw, T., Sookdew, R., Speelman, T., Spyrou, S., Sümer, H. C., Sümer, N., Supekova, M., Szlendak, T., Taylor, R., Timmermans, B., Tooke, W., Tsaousis, I., Tungaraza, F. S., Turner, A., Vandermassen, G., Vanhoomissen, T., Van Overwalle, F., Vanwesenbeeck, I., Vasey, P. L., Verissimo, J., Voracek, M., Wan, W. W., Wang, T., Weiss, P., Wijaya, A., Woertman, L., Youn, G., ZupanÈiÈ, A.
    Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 367-402
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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