Thousands of jobs are at risk in higher education. Jo Grady told ITV News how UCU is fighting back with our #STOPtheCUTS campaign👇 Sign the petition now: stopthecutspetition.org.uk

My talk with Generalist Universe about Beauty and Ugliness (in Portuguese, but English subtitles are available): youtube.com/watch?v=5e9eRw…

Does music training improve emotion recognition and cognitive abilities? It enhances fine-motor skills & auditory memory; it doesn't improve emotion recognition, other cognitive abilities, or socioemotional functioning. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

How do we move in front of Art? How does this relate to Art Experience? Linking movement, eye tracking, emotion, and evaluations in a Gallery-like setting. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

The influence of Pet owners’ empathy on perceptions of 🐕 and 🐈 distress vocalizations and caregiving behaviours. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

A quick reminder about h-index, i10-index & g-index (for those who care about them).

Our study about the psychological determinants of Aesthetic and Affective preferences for Nature and Urban scenes is out in the Empirical Sudies of the Arts. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02…

Neuroscience & Art talk in a venue with 🍺 & 🍷 ? 🎉 If you are in Leeds on the 27 May, joint me at the The Wardrobe. In the talk, we’ll be unpacking what may happen in our brains when we engage with visual art (mostly). Details: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-neurosci…

🥳🚗Exploring the effect of cognitive load in scenarios of daily driving. Moderate cognitive load may influence performance in time-sensitive sequential tasks. Potential spillover effects could stem from sustained attentional processes related to alertness link.springer.com/article/10.100…

The influence of Pet Owners’ Empathy on perceptions of Dog and Cat distress vocalizations and caregiving behaviors. *Pet owners perceived dog & cat distress vocalizations as sadder than non-pet owners. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Psychological determinants of aesthetic & affective preferences for nature & urban scenes: Anxiety, Nature Exposure & Mental Imagery. 》Nature exposure modulated responses to nature (not urban) scenes. Anxiety modulated emotional (not aesthetic) responses journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Spatial location in brief, free-viewing face encoding modulates contextual face recognition. ->Face recognition of cooperators better than cheaters & better for faces encoded in upper than in lower hemifield, both in terms of a higher d' & faster RT. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC38…

Tony Blair’s Institute has taken nearly half a billion $ from tech billionaire Larry Ellison. His company Oracle is deeply embedded in Israeli govt & military. Larry Ellison is a personal friend of Netanyahu. 2/ thenerve.news/p/tony-blair-i…

On #loneliness "The unseen" by Allison J Pugh Our crisis of work and technology is one in which too many people feel that nobody sees them as a fellow human being. aeon.co/essays/our-cri…

From the lab: Pet Ownership and Wellbeing During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Importance of Resilience and Attachment to Pets. "Pet ownership and pet attachment were positively associated with wellbeing in people with low levels of resilience". tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Attention modulates perception of transparent motion. "performance in detecting one direction in a multiple direction stimulus might be limited by the ability to separate adjacent motion directions" sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I’ve made a short film. Look at the things around you: doors, bins, staircases, furniture, railings, doorhandles, windows. Do you like how they look, or not? Modern design has become boring, but it doesn’t have to be this way. The word “beautiful” is overused. We don’t need

On Pets, Love & Friends 👫 ❤️ The effects of pets and human-pet interactions on humans’ romantic relationships and friendships. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02…

Owning a Pet Can Shape Romantic Relationship Quality. Thank you Psychology Today for citing our article in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, doi: 02654075251383683. psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/meet-c…

A piece about our study on Pets and relationships in Psychology Today "Owning a Pet Can Shape Romantic Relationship Quality" psychologytoday.com/us/blog/meet-c…