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
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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Neurodiversity Champion, & lead of the Neurodiversity Steering Group in the School of Psychology.
Member of the School Ethics committee and Equality, Diversity, & Inclusion committee.
Student Development lead in the School.
- 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 visuospatial working memory
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and CognitionContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001330
Competition between emotional faces in visuo-spatial working memory
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and CognitionContributions 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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ZNF804A genotype modulates neural activity during working memory for faces
Neuropsychobiology, vol. 67, no. 2, pp. 84-92Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1159/000344001
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/5844/1/344001.pdf
"Distracters" do not always distract: Visual working memory for angry faces is enhanced by incidental emotional words.
Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 3, 437Contributions to Journals: ArticlesValidation of food diaries as measures of dietary behaviour change
Appetite, vol. 58, no. 3, pp. 1164-1168Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2012.02.017
Neural hyperactivation in carriers of the Alzheimer's risk variant on the clusterin gene
European Neuropsychopharmacology, vol. 21, no. 12, pp. 880-884Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSad benefit in face working memory: an emotional bias of melancholic depression
Journal of Affective Disorders, vol. 135, no. 1-3, pp. 251-257Contributions to Journals: ArticlesStrategic 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: Articles