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Chair in Psychology
- About
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- Email Address
- patric.bach@abdn.ac.uk
- Office Address
- School/Department
- School of Psychology
- Research
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Research Overview
My lab 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 others' actions, how people are able to mentally rotate into the perspective of other people, and how people are able to control their intentional actions.
Research Areas
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 HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
Current Research
I have been awarded £462.995 from the Leverhulme Trust 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
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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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The face inhibition effect: Social contrast or motor competition?
Journal of Cognitive Psychology, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 45-51Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2011.451888
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The predictive mirror: Interactions of mirror and affordance processes during action observation
Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 171-176Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-010-0029-x
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On the role of object information in action observation: An fMRI study
Cerebral Cortex, vol. 20, no. 12, pp. 2798-2809Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhq026
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Gesturing meaning: Non-action words activate the motor system
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, vol. 4Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2010.00214
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N400-like negativities in action perception reflect the activation of two components of an action representation
Social Neuroscience, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 212-232Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17470910802362546
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Your own actions influence how you perceive other people: A misattribution of action appraisals
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 1082-1090Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2007.11.005
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Focusing on body sites: The role of spatial attention in action perception
Experimental Brain Research, vol. 178, no. 4, pp. 509-517Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-006-0756-4
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Implicit action encoding influences personal-trait judgments
Cognition, vol. 102, no. 2, pp. 151-178Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2005.11.003
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Bend it like Beckham: Embodying the motor skills of famous athletes
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 59, no. 12, pp. 2033-2039Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17470210600917801
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Action comprehension: Deriving spatial and functional relations
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 465-479Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.31.3.465
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