![Dr Margaret C. Jackson Dr Margaret C. Jackson](/img/200x200/staffpages/uploads/s06mj2/avatar/jAvYJD92nVxBjfTNugGmSq9HlXk8ocHV9kegnZ1L.jpeg)
Senior Lecturer
- About
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- 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 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
- Internal Memberships
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Co-Chair of the University's Neurodiversity Network
Student Development Lead in the School of PSychology
Committee / Group membership the School of Psychology:
- Neurodiversity Advocate & lead of the Neurodiversity Steering Group.
- Equality, Diversity, & Inclusion committee.
Committee / Group membership at University level:
- Equality, Diversity, & Inclusion committee (as Neurodiversity Advocate)
- Student Experience and Support Committee (as Neurodiversity Advocate & Student Development Psychology representative)
- Mental Health and Wellbeing Group (as Neurodiversity Advocate)
- External Memberships
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External Examiner for MSc Social Cognition course at UCL
Aurora women in leadership course completion, 2021-22
Latest Publications
Competition between emotional faces in visuo-spatial working memory
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and CognitionContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001330
- [ONLINE] https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2024-58771-001.html
Prevalence and characterization of avoidant restrictive food intake disorder in a pediatric population
JAACAP Open, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 116-127Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPrevalence and Characterization of Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder in a Paediatric Population
JAACAP Open, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 116-127Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAttentional Load Effects on Emotional Content in Face Working Memory
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
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 74, no. 2, pp. 221-240Contributions to Journals: Articles
- Research
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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
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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
- Publications
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Strategic resource allocation in the human brain supports cognitive coordination of object and spatial working memory
Human Brain Mapping, vol. 32, no. 8, pp. 1330-1348Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.21112
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/4677/1/Jackson_etal_HBM2011.pdf
Dysbindin-1 genotype effects on emotional working memory
Molecular Psychiatry, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 145-155Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/mp.2009.129
Varying background colours reveals that enhanced short-term memory for angry faces is a valence and not an arousal effect
Working Memory: Capacity, Developments and Improvement Techniques. Levin, E. S. (ed.). Nova Science Publishers, pp. 301-312, 12 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersDopamine boosts memory for angry faces in Parkinson's disease
Movement Disorders, vol. 25, no. 16, pp. 2792-2799Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/mds.23420
Neural signatures of stimulus features in visual working memory: a spatiotemporal approach
Cerebral Cortex, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 187-197Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEnhanced visual short-term memory for angry faces
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 363-374Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/a0013895
Electrophysiological correlates of improved short-term memory for emotional faces
Neuropsychologia, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 887-896Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.12.024
Neural correlates of enhanced visual short-term memory for angry faces: an FMRI study
PloS ONE, vol. 3, no. 10, e3536Contributions to Journals: ArticlesFamiliarity enhances visual working memory for faces
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 556-568Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.34.3.556
The role of attention and familiarity in face identification
Perception and Psychophysics, vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 543-547Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIncreasing children's fruit and vegetable consumption: a peer-modelling and rewards-based intervention
European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 58, no. 12, pp. 1649-1660Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.ejcn.1602024
General dental practitioners' perception of their role within child protection: a qualitative study
European Journal of Paediatric Dentistry, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 89-95Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMarketing alcohol to young people: implications for industry regulation and research policy
Addiction, vol. 95, no. Suppl 4, pp. S597-608Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09652140020013809