Senior Lecturer
- 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 University of Aberdeen, 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
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, University of Aberdeen
- Mental Health and Wellbeing Group, University of Aberdeen
- Employability and Entrepreneurship Committee, University of Aberdeen
External Examiner for MSc Social Cognition course at UCL (postgraduate)
Aurora women in leadership course completion, 2021-22
Latest Publications
Competition between emotional faces in visuo-spatial working memory
Poncet, M., Spotorno, S., Jackson, M. C.Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and CognitionContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001330
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/24233/2/Poncet_etal_VSWM_Emotion_Competition_AAM.pdf
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/24233/1/Poncet_etal_JEPLMC_Competition_Between_Emotional_VoR.pdf
- [ONLINE] https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2024-58771-001.html
Prevalence and Characterization of Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder in a Paediatric Population
Sader, M., Harris, H., Waiter, G., Jackson, M. C., Voortman, T., Jansen, P. W., Williams, J.JAACAP Open, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 116-127Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAttentional Load Effects on Emotional Content in Face Working Memory
Valenti, L., Pucci, I. W., Basso Garcia, R., Jackson, M. C., Galera, C.Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 76, no. 7, pp. 1696-1709Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIncreased perceptual distraction and task demand enhances gaze and non-biological cuing effects
Gregory, S. E. A., Jackson, M. C.Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 74, no. 2, pp. 221-240Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA cross-cultural investigation into the influence of eye gaze on working memory for happy and angry faces
Gregory, S. E. A., Langton, S. R. H., Yoshikawa, S., Jackson, M. C.Cognition & Emotion, vol. 34, no. 8, pp. 1561-1572Contributions to Journals: Articles
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 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
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Competition between emotional faces in visuo-spatial working memory
Poncet, M., Spotorno, S., Jackson, M. C.Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and CognitionContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001330
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/24233/2/Poncet_etal_VSWM_Emotion_Competition_AAM.pdf
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/24233/1/Poncet_etal_JEPLMC_Competition_Between_Emotional_VoR.pdf
- [ONLINE] https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2024-58771-001.html
Prevalence and Characterization of Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder in a Paediatric Population
Sader, M., Harris, H., Waiter, G., Jackson, M. C., Voortman, T., Jansen, P. W., Williams, J.JAACAP Open, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 116-127Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAttentional Load Effects on Emotional Content in Face Working Memory
Valenti, L., Pucci, I. W., Basso Garcia, R., Jackson, M. C., Galera, C.Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 76, no. 7, pp. 1696-1709Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIncreased perceptual distraction and task demand enhances gaze and non-biological cuing effects
Gregory, S. E. A., Jackson, M. C.Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 74, no. 2, pp. 221-240Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA cross-cultural investigation into the influence of eye gaze on working memory for happy and angry faces
Gregory, S. E. A., Langton, S. R. H., Yoshikawa, S., Jackson, M. C.Cognition & Emotion, vol. 34, no. 8, pp. 1561-1572Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTask cues lead to item-level backward inhibition with univalent stimuli and responses
Prosser, L. J., Jackson, M. C., Swainson, R.Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 73, no. 3, pp. 442-457Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBarriers block the effect of joint attention on working memory: Perspective taking matters
Gregory, S. E. A., Jackson, M. C.Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, vol. 45, no. 5, pp. 795-806Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000622
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/10839/1/Gregory_Jackson2018_JEPLMC_AuthorAcceptedCopy.pdf
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Effects of induced sad mood on facial emotion perception in young and older adults
Lawrie, L., Jackson, M. C., Phillips, L. H.Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 319-335Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2018.1438584
- [ONLINE] View publication in Mendeley
Remembering who was where: A happy expression advantage for face identity-location binding in working memory
Spotorno, S., Evans, M., Jackson, M. C.Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, vol. 44, no. 9, pp. 1365-1383Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEye gaze influences working memory for happy but not angry faces
Jackson, M. C.Cognition & Emotion, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 719-728Contributions to Journals: Articles