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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Why motor imagery is not really motoric: towards a re-conceptualization in terms of effect-based action control
Psychological Research, vol. 88, no. 6, pp. 1790–1804Contributions to Journals: Review articlesHeart Is Deceitful Above All Things: Threat Expectancy Induces the Illusory Perception of Increased Heartrate
Cognition, vol. 245, 105719Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMore Than Meets the Eye? An Experimental Design to Test Robot Visual Perspective-Taking Facilitators Beyond Mere-Appearance
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsConsequential sound induces illusory distortions in the perception and prediction of robot motion
Working Papers: Preprint Papers- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/47uam
Sonic Sleight of Hand: Sound induces illusory distortions in the perception and prediction of robot action
International Journal of Social RoboticsContributions to Journals: ArticlesExpectations of efficient actions bias social perception: a pre-registered online replication
Royal Society Open Science, vol. 10, no. 2, 220889Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEditorial: Predictive mechanisms in action, perception, cognition, and clinical disorders
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, vol. 16, 1005905Contributions to Journals: EditorialsIs Implicit Level-2 Visual perspective taking embodied? Spontaneous perceptual simulation of others’ perspectives is not impaired by motor restriction
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 75, no. 7, pp. 1244–1258Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPredictive Action Perception from Explicit Intention Information in Autism
Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 1556-1566Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEditorial: Behavioral and Neural Bases of Object Affordance Processing and Its Clinical Implications
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, vol. 15, 759377Contributions to Journals: Editorials