How does being with others shape cognition?
In the Eyethink Lab, we use behavioural, eye gaze and physiological tracking technology to investigate how cognition is embedded, coordinated and extended with others in the social world. The lab is based in the Department of Experimental Psychology at University College London and is co-directed by Prof Daniel C. Richardson and Dr Miles R. A. Tufft. On this website, you can learn more about our current projects and the people behind them.
RESEARCH THEMES.
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COGNITION
How is cognition embedded
with others in a social world?
SYNCHRONISED
COGNITION
How is cognition coordinated
with others in a social world?
DISTRIBUTED
COGNITION
How is cognition extended
with others in a social world?
RESEARCH PAGES COMING SOON
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS.
Richardson, D. C., Griffin, N. K., Zaki, L., Stephenson, A., Yan, J., Curry, T, Devlin, J. T. (2020). Engagement in video and audio narratives: contrasting self-report and physiological measures. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 11298. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-68253-2
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Tufft, M. R., & Gobel, M. S. (2022). Gender and perceived cooperation modulate visual attention in a joint spatial cueing task. Visual Cognition, 30(1-2), 6-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2021.1976892
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Tufft, M. R. A., & Richardson, D. C. (2020). Social offloading: Just working together is enough to remove semantic interference. In S. Denison, M. Mack, Y. Xu, & B. C. Armstrong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 859–865.
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Bazazi, S., von Zimmermann, J., Bahrami, B., & Richardson, D. (2019). Self-serving incentives impair collective decisions by increasing conformity. PLoS ONE, 14(11). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224725
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Gobel, M. S., Tufft, M. R., & Richardson, D. C. (2018). Social beliefs and visual attention: how the social relevance of a cue influences spatial orienting. Cognitive science, 42, 161-185. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12529
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Risko, E. F., Richardson, D. C., & Kingstone, A. (2016). Breaking the fourth wall of cognitive science: Real-world social attention and the dual function of gaze. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 25(1), 70-74. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214156178
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Pärnamets, P. Johansson, P., Hall, L., Balkenius, C., Spivey, M.J. & Richardson, D.C. (2015) Biasing moral decisions by exploiting the dynamics of eye gaze, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112 (13) 4170–4175. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1415250112
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Gobel, MS, Kim, H.S., & Richardson D.C. (2015). The Dual Function of Social Gaze. Cognition. 136, 359-364. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2014.11.040
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LAB MEMBERS.
Prof Daniel C. Richardson
Co-Director
Lena Nalbandian
PhD Student
Dr Miles R. A. Tufft
Co-Director
Robin Ren
PhD Student