Professor Mike Burton

Professor Mike Burton The University of Aberdeen School of Psychology 6th Century Chair in Psychology work +44 (0)1224 273930 pref m.burton@abdn.ac.uk http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~psy550/ pref School of Psychology William Guild Building Room S11 Kings College Old Aberdeen AB24 3FX

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Current Research

Cognitive and perceptual aspects of face recognition Automatic face recognition Forensic identification Visual Cognition

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Distinctions

• Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE),  Elected 2006. 
• Mid-Career Award of the Experimental Psychology Society, 2012.
• Cognitive Psychology Award of the British Psychological Society, 2000.
• Editor, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2006-2009.

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Publications

Contributions to Journals

Articles

• Nakabayashi, K., Burton, AM., Brandimonte, MA. & Lloyd-Jones, TJ. (2012). 'Dissociating Positive and Negative Influences of Verbal Processing on the Recognition of Pictures of Faces and Objects'. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, vol 38, no. 2, pp. 376-390.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1037/a0025782
• Jenkins, R. & Burton, AM. (2011). 'Stable face representations'. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological sciences, vol 366, no. 1571, pp. 1671-1683.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0379
• Burton, AM., Jenkins, R. & Schweinberger, SR. (2011). 'Mental representations of familiar faces'. British Journal of Psychology, vol 102, no. 4, pp. 943-958.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8295.2011.02039.x
• Jenkins, R., White, D., Van Montfort, X. & Burton, AM. (2011). 'Variability in photos of the same face'. Cognition, vol 121, no. 3, pp. 313-323.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.08.001
• Wilson, CE., Palermo, R., Burton, AM. & Brock, J. (2011). 'Recognition of own- and other-race faces in autism spectrum disorders'. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol 64, no. 10, pp. 1939-1954.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2011.603052
• Megreya, AM., White, D. & Burton, AM. (2011). 'The other-race effect does not rely on memory: Evidence from a matching task'. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol 64, no. 8, pp. 1473-1483.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2011.575228
• Bindemann, M., Scheepers, C., Ferguson, HJ. & Burton, AM. (2010). 'Face, Body, and Center of Gravity Mediate Person Detection in Natural Scenes'. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol 36, no. 6, pp. 1477-1485.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1037/a0019057
• Wilson, CE., Freeman, P., Brock, J., Burton, AM. & Palermo, R. (2010). 'Facial Identity Recognition in the Broader Autism Phenotype'. PLoS ONE, vol 5, no. 9, e12876.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012876
• Wilson, CE., Palermo, R., Brock, J. & Burton, AM. (2010). 'Learning new faces in typically developing children and children on the autistic spectrum'. Perception, vol 39, no. 12, pp. 1645-1658.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1068/p6727
• Burton, AM., White, D. & McNeill, A. (2010). 'The Glasgow Face Matching Test'. Behavior Research Methods, vol 42, no. 1, pp. 286-291.
  [Online] DOI: 10.3758/BRM.42.1.286
• Bindemann, M. & Burton, AM. (2009). 'The Role of Color in Human Face Detection'. Cognitive Science, vol 33, no. 6, pp. 1144-1156.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2009.01035.x
• Burton, AM. & Bindemann, M. (2009). 'The role of view in human face detection'. Vision research, vol 49, no. 15, pp. 2026-2036.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.05.012
• Bindemann, M., Scheepers, C. & Burton, AM. (2009). 'Viewpoint and center of gravity affect eye movements to human faces'. Journal of Vision, vol 9, no. 2.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1167/9.2.7
• Kaufmann, JM., Schweinberger, SR. & Burton, AM. (2009). 'N250 ERP Correlates of the Acquisition of Face Representations across Different Images'. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol 21, no. 4, pp. 625-641.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21080
• Burton, AM., Bindemann, M., Langton, SR.H., Schweinberger, SR. & Jenkins, R. (2009). 'Gaze perception requires focused attention: Evidence from an interference task'. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol 35, no. 1, pp. 108-118.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.35.1.108
• Megreya, AM. & Burton, AM. (2008). 'Matching Faces to Photographs: Poor Performance in Eyewitness Memory (Without the Memory)'. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, vol 14, no. 4, pp. 364-372.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1037/a0013464
• Bindemann, M. & Burton, AM. (2008). 'Attention to upside-down faces: An exception to the inversion effect'. Vision research, vol 48, no. 25, pp. 2555-2561.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.09.001
• Bindemann, M., Burton, AM. & Langton, SRH. (2008). 'How do eye gaze and facial expression interact?'. Visual Cognition, vol 16, no. 6, pp. 708-733.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/13506280701269318
• Baird, LM. & Burton, AM. (2008). 'The bilateral advantage for famous faces: Interhemispheric communication or competition?'. Neuropsychologia, vol 46, no. 5, pp. 1581-1587.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.01.001
• Bindemann, M., Burton, AM., Leuthold, H. & Schweinberger, SR. (2008). 'Brain potential correlates of face recognition: Geometric distortions and the N250r brain response to stimulus repetitions'. Psychophysiology, vol 45, no. 4, pp. 535-544.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2008.00663.x
• Langton, SR.H., Law, AS., Burton, AM. & Schweinberger, SR. (2008). 'Attention capture by faces'. Cognition, vol 107, no. 1, pp. 330-342.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.07.012
• Nakabayashi, K. & Burton, AM. (2008). 'The role of verbal processing at different stages of recognition memory for faces'. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, vol 20, no. 3, pp. 478-496.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/09541440801946174
• Jenkins, R. & Burton, AM. (2008). '100% Accuracy in Automatic Face Recognition'. Science, vol 319, no. 5862, pp. 435.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1126/science.1149656

Editorials

• Schweinberger, SR. & Burton, AM. (2011). 'Person perception 25 years after Bruce and Young (1986): An introduction'. British Journal of Psychology, vol 102, no. 4, pp. 695-703.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8295.2011.02070.x

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings

Chapters

• Burton, AM. & Jenkins, R. (2011). 'Unfamliar face perception'. in AJ Calder, G Rhodes, MH Johnson & JV Haxby (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Face Perception. Oxford University Press, pp. 287-306.

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