Publications

Preprints

2025

  • Ionela Bara, Richard Ramsey, and Emily S. Cross. (2025) “Art Knowledge Training Shapes Understanding, Inspires Creativity, and Stimulates Thinking.”
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2024

  • Ionela Bara, Kohinoor M. Darda, Richard Ramsey, and Emily S. Cross. (2024) “Algorithmic Aesthetics: Cognitive Perspectives on AI-Generated Art.”
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  • Sven Panis and Richard Ramsey. (2024) “Event History Analysis for psychological time-to-event data: A tutorial in R with examples in Bayesian and frequentist workflows.”
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  • Sam Parker, Emily S. Cross, and Richard Ramsey. (2024) “Evidence accumulation modelling offers new insights into the cognitive mechanisms that underlie linguistic and action-based training.”
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Published

2025

  • Ionela Bara, Emily S. Cross, and Richard Ramsey. (2025) “The Role of Art Knowledge Training on Aesthetic Judgements and Executive Functions.” Royal Society Open Science
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  • Ionela Bara, Richard Ramsey, and Emily S. Cross. (2025) “AI Contextual Information Shapes Moral and Aesthetic Judgements of AI-Generated Visual Art.” Cognition
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  • Eliane Deschrijver and Richard Ramsey. (2025) “Unequal resource division occurs in the absence of group division and identity.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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  • Mike Zhuang, Eliane Deschrijver, Richard Ramsey, and Ofir Turel. (in press) “Comparing Discriminatory Behavior Against AI and Humans.” Scientific Reports
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2024

  • Chris Byrne, Rudi Coetzer, and Richard Ramsey. (2024) “Cognitive Processing Speed and Loneliness in Stroke Survivors: Insights from a Large-Scale Cohort Study.” Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology
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  • Kohinoor M. Darda and Richard Ramsey. (2024) “The promise and pitfalls of studying the neurophysiological correlates of automatic imitation.” In O. Genschow & E. Cracco (Eds.), Automatic Imitation. Springer, Cham.
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  • Emmanuele Tidoni, Emily S. Cross, Richard Ramsey, and Michele Scandola. (2024) “Are humanoid robots perceived as mindless mannequins?.” Computers in Human Behavior – Artificial Humans
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  • Rob Ward and Richard Ramsey. (2024) “Integrating Social Cognition into Domain-General Control: Interactive activation and competition for the CONtrol of action (ICON).” Cognitive Science
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2023

  • Sam Parker and Richard Ramsey. (2023) “What Can Evidence Accumulation Modelling Tell Us about Human Social Cognition?.” Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
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  • Sam Parker and Richard Ramsey. (2023) “Exploring the Relationship between Oculomotor Preparation and Gaze-Cued Covert Shifts in Attention.” Journal of Vision
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  • Andrew Wildman and Richard Ramsey. (2023) “Investigating the Automaticity of Links Between Body Perception and Trait Concepts.” Visual Cognition
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2022

  • Ionela Bara, Richard J. Binney, and Richard Ramsey. (2022) “Investigating the Role of Working Memory Resources across Aesthetic and Non-Aesthetic Judgements.” Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
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  • Ionela Bara, Richard J. Binney, Rob Ward, and Richard Ramsey. (2022) “A generalised semantic cognition account of aesthetic experience.” Neuropsychologia
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  • Chris Byrne, Christian Salas, Rudi Coetzer, and Richard Ramsey. (2022) “Understanding Loneliness in Brain Injury: Linking the Reaffiliation Motive Model of Loneliness With a Model of Executive Impairment.” Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
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  • Aikatertina Manoli, Johanna McCarthy, and Richard Ramsey. (2022) “Estimating the Prevalence of Social and Emotional Loneliness across the Adult Lifespan.” Scientific Reports
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  • Andrew Wildman and Richard Ramsey. (2022) “Estimating the effects of trait knowledge on social perception.” Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
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2021

  • Ionela Bara, Kohinoor M. Darda, A. Solomon Kurz, and Richard Ramsey. (2021) “Functional Specificity and Neural Integration in the Aesthetic Appreciation of Artworks with Implied Motion.” European Journal of Neuroscience
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  • Chris Byrne, Chris W. N. Saville, Rudi Coetzer, and Richard Ramsey. (2021) “Stroke Survivors Experience Elevated Levels of Loneliness: A Multi-Year Analysis of the National Survey for Wales.” Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology
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  • Emily S. Cross and Richard Ramsey. (2021) “Mind Meets Machine: Towards a Cognitive Science of Human–Machine Interactions.” Trends in Cognitive Sciences
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  • Ruud Hortensius, Michaela Kent, Kohinoor M. Darda, Laura Jastrzab, Kami Koldewyn, Richard Ramsey, and Emily S. Cross. (2021) “Exploring the Relationship between Anthropomorphism and Theory-of-Mind in Brain and Behaviour.” Human Brain Mapping
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  • Rachel Newey, Kami Koldewyn, and Richard Ramsey. (2021) “Incidental Impressions Formed from Visual Social Cues; Updating and Group Context.”
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  • Richard Ramsey. (2021) “A Call for Greater Modesty in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience.” Collabra: Psychology
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  • Richard Ramsey, David M. Kaplan, and Emily S. Cross. (2021) “Watch and Learn: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning from Others’ Actions.” Trends in Neurosciences
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2020

  • Richard J. Binney and Richard Ramsey. (2020) “Social Semantics: The role of conceptual knowledge and cognitive control in a neurobiological model of the social brain.” Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
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  • Kohinoor M. Darda, Emily E. Butler, and Richard Ramsey. (2020) “Individual differences in social and non-social cognitive control.” Cognition
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  • Richard Ramsey. (2020) “Advocating for the Credibility Revolution.” Cognitive Psychology Bulletin
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  • Richard Ramsey and Rob Ward. (2020) “Challenges and Opportunities for Top-down Modulation Research in Cognitive Psychology.” Acta Psychologica
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  • Richard Ramsey and Rob Ward. (2020) “Putting the Nonsocial into Social Neuroscience: A Role for Domain-General Priority Maps during Social Interactions.” Perspectives on Psychological Science
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2019

  • Dace Apsvalka, Emily S. Cross, and Richard Ramsey. (2019) “Fluid Intelligence and Working Memory Support Dissociable Aspects of Learning by Physical but Not Observational Practice.” Cognition
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  • Kohinoor M. Darda and Richard Ramsey. (2019) “The inhibition of automatic imitation: A meta-analysis and synthesis of fMRI studies.” NeuroImage
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  • Inez M. Greven, Paul E. Downing, and Richard Ramsey. (2019) “Neural Networks Supporting Social Evaluation of Bodies Based on Body Shape.” Social Neuroscience
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  • Rachel Newey, Kami Koldewyn, and Richard Ramsey. (2019) “The Influence of Prosocial Priming on Visual Perspective Taking and Automatic Imitation.” PLoS ONE
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  • Richard Ramsey, Kohinoor M. Darda, and Paul E. Downing. (2019) “Automatic Imitation Remains Unaffected under Cognitive Load.” Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
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2018

  • Dace Apsvalka, Emily S. Cross, and Richard Ramsey. (2018) “Observing Action Sequences Elicits Sequence-Specific Neural Representations in Frontoparietal Brain Regions.” Journal of Neuroscience
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  • Dace Apsvalka, Richard Ramsey, and Emily S. Cross. (2018) “Anodal tDCS over Primary Motor Cortex Provides No Advantage to Learning Motor Sequences via Observation.” Neural Plasticity
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  • Emily E. Butler, Rob Ward, Paul E. Downing, and Richard Ramsey. (2018) “fMRI repetition suppression reveals no sensitivity to trait judgments from faces in face perception or theory-of-mind networks.” PLoS ONE
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  • Kohinoor M. Darda, Emily E. Butler, and Richard Ramsey. (2018) “Functional Specificity and Sex Differences in the Neural Circuits Supporting the Inhibition of Automatic Imitation.” Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
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  • Richard Ramsey. (2018) “Neural Integration in Body Perception.” Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
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  • Richard Ramsey. (2018) “What are reaction time indices of automatic imitation measuring?.” Consciousness and Cognition
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2017

  • Emily E. Butler, Chris W. N. Saville, Rob Ward, and Richard Ramsey. (2017) “Physical attraction to reliable, low variability nervous systems: Reaction time variability predicts attractiveness.” Cognition
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  • Inez M. Greven and Richard Ramsey. (2017) “Person perception involves functional integration between the extrastriate body area and temporal pole.” Neuropsychologia
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  • Inez M. Greven and Richard Ramsey. (2017) “Neural network integration during the perception of in-group and out-group members.” Neuropsychologia
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2016

  • Emily E. Butler, Rob Ward, and Richard Ramsey. (2016) “The Influence of Facial Signals on the Automatic Imitation of Hand Actions.” Frontiers in Psychology
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  • Emily S. Cross, Richard Ramsey, Roman Liepelt, Wolfgang Prinz, and Antonia Hamilton. (2016) “The shaping of social perception by stimulus and knowledge cues to human animacy.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
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  • Inez M. Greven, Paul E. Downing, and Richard Ramsey. (2016) “Linking Person Perception and Person Knowledge in the Human Brain.” Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
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2015

  • Emily E. Butler, Rob Ward, and Richard Ramsey. (2015) “Investigating the Relationship between Stable Personality Characteristics and Automatic Imitation.” PLoS ONE
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2014

  • Emily S. Cross, Daniel Acquah, and Richard Ramsey. (2014) “A review and critical analysis of how cognitive neuroscientific investigations using dance can contribute to sport psychology.” International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology
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  • Andre Klapper, Richard Ramsey, Daniel Wigboldus, and Emily S. Cross. (2014) “The Control of Automatic Imitation Based on Bottom–Up and Top–Down Cues to Animacy: Insights from Brain and Behavior.” Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
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  • J. Jessica Wang, Dongo Diana Miletich, Richard Ramsey, and Antonia Hamilton. (2014) “Adults See Vision to Be More Informative than It Is.” Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
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2013

  • Antonia Hamilton and Richard Ramsey. (2013) “How Are the Actions of Triangles and People Processed in the Human Brain?.” Social Perception: Detection and Interpretation of Animacy, Agency, and Intention
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  • Elisabetta Mazzarella, Richard Ramsey, Massimiliano Conson, and Antonia Hamilton. (2013) “Brain Systems for Visual Perspective Taking and Action Perception.” Social Neuroscience
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  • Richard Ramsey, Emily S. Cross, and Antonia Hamilton. (2013) “Supramodal and Modality-Sensitive Representations of Perceived Action Categories in the Human Brain.” Experimental Brain Research
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  • Richard Ramsey, Peter Hansen, Ian Apperly, and Dana Samson. (2013) “Seeing It My Way or Your Way: Frontoparietal Brain Areas Sustain Viewpoint-independent Perspective Selection Processesf.” Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
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2012

  • Emily S. Cross, Roman Liepelt, Antonia Hamilton, Jim Parkinson, Richard Ramsey, Waltraud Stadler, and Wolfgang Prinz. (2012) “Robotic Movement Preferentially Engages the Action Observation Network.” Human Brain Mapping
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  • Emily S. Cross and Richard Ramsey. (2012) “Neurophysiological Correlates of Learning to Dance.” Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning
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  • Emily S. Cross, Nicola R. Cohen, Antonia Hamilton, Richard Ramsey, George Wolford, and Scott T. Grafton. (2012) “Physical Experience Leads to Enhanced Object Perception in Parietal Cortex: Insights from Knot Tying.” Neuropsychologia
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  • Richard Ramsey and Antonia Hamilton. (2012) “How Does Your Own Knowledge Influence the Perception of Another Person’s Action in the Human Brain?.” Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
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  • Richard Ramsey, Emily S. Cross, and Antonia Hamilton. (2012) “Predicting Others’ Actions via Grasp and Gaze: Evidence for Distinct Brain Networks.” Psychological Research
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  • Sarah E. Williams, Jennifer Cumming, Nikos Ntoumanis, Sanna M. Nordin-Bates, Richard Ramsey, and Craig Hall. (2012) “Further Validation and Development of the Movement Imagery Questionnaire.” Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
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2011

  • Jennifer Cumming and Richard Ramsey. (2011) “Investigating the Effect of Model Type and Practice Format on Performance Expectations and Actual Physical Performance.” International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
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  • Richard Ramsey, Emily S. Cross, and Antonia Hamilton. (2011) “Eye Can See What You Want: Posterior Intraparietal Sulcus Encodes the Object of an Actor’s Gaze.” Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
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  • Richard Ramsey, Hein T. van Schie, and Emily S. Cross. (2011) “No two are the same: Body shape is part of identifying others.” Cognitive Neuroscience
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  • Yin Wang, Richard Ramsey, and Antonia Hamilton. (2011) “The Control of Mimicry by Eye Contact Is Mediated by Medial Prefrontal Cortex.” The Journal of Neuroscience
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2010

  • Richard Ramsey, Jennifer Cumming, Daniel Eastough, and Martin G. Edwards. (2010) “Incongruent Imagery Interferes with Action Initiation.” Brain and Cognition
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  • Richard Ramsey and Antonia Hamilton. (2010) “Triangles Have Goals Too: Understanding Action Representation in Left aIPS.” Neuropsychologia
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  • Richard Ramsey and Antonia Hamilton. (2010) “Understanding Actors and Object-Goals in the Human Brain.” NeuroImage
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  • Richard Ramsey, Jennifer Cumming, Martin G. Edwards, Sarah Williams, and Chris Brunning. (2010) “Examining the Emotion Aspect of PETTLEP-based Imagery and Penalty Taking Performance in Soccer.” Journal of Sport behavior
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2009

  • Craig R. Hall, Krista J. Munroe-Chandler, Jennifer Cumming, Barbi Law, Richard Ramsey, and Lisa Murphy. (2009) “Imagery and observational learning use and their relationship to sport confidence.” Journal of Sports Sciences
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  • Richard Ramsey, Jennifer Cumming, and Martin G. Edwards. (2009) “Mental Imagery Inflates Performance Expectations but Not Actual Performance of a Novel and Challenging Motor Task.” Imagination, Cognition and Personality
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2008

  • Jennifer Cumming and Richard Ramsey. (2008) “Imagery interventions in sport.” Advances in Applied Sport Psychology
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  • Richard Ramsey, Jennifer Cumming, and Martin G. Edwards. (2008) “Exploring a Modified Conceptualization of Imagery Direction and Golf Putting Performance.” International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
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