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Eugene McSorley

Email:
e.mcsorley@reading.ac.uk
Phone:
+44 (0) 118 378 5552
Job title:
Associate Professor

Responsibilities:

Director of Postgraduate Research Studies

Areas of interest

Visual selection through action. Eye movements, decision making, neuroeconomics, emotions, aesthetics and art.

Teaching

Undergraduate: statistics, perception, cognition, neuroscience
Postgraduate: perception, cognition, neuroscience.

Research centres and groups

Perception and Action

Websites/blogs

Eugene McSorley Lab – personal webpage

Publications

Williams, L. , Mulder, K. , Charlton-Perez, A. , Lickiss, M. , Black, A. , McCloy, R. ORCID: 0000-0003-2333-9640 , McSorley, E. , Young, J. (2023) Understanding representations of uncertainty, an eye-tracking study – part 2: the effect of expertise. Geoscience Communications , 6 (3). pp. 111-123. ISSN: 2569-7110 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gc-6-111-2023
Mulder, K. , Williams, L. , Lickiss, M. , Black, A. , Charlton-Perez, A. , McCloy, R. ORCID: 0000-0003-2333-9640 , McSorley, E. (2023) Understanding representations of uncertainty, an eye-tracking study part 1: the effect of anchoring. Geoscience Communications , 6 (3). pp. 97-110. ISSN: 2569-7110 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gc-6-97-2023
Rodriguez-Sobstel, C. ORCID: 0000-0001-6692-0908 , Wake, S. ORCID: 0000-0001-6202-7645 , Dodd, H. ORCID: 0000-0003-1446-5338 , McSorley, E. ORCID: 0000-0002-2054-879X , van Reekum, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-1516-1101 , Morriss, J. ORCID: 0000-0002-7928-9673 (2023) Shifty eyes: the impact of intolerance of uncertainty on gaze behaviour during threat conditioning. Collabra: Psychology , 9 (1). pp 0. ISSN: 2474-7394 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1525/collabra.82229

Fraser, I. , Balcombe, K. , Williams, L. , McSorley, E. (2021) Preference stability in discrete choice experiments. Some evidence using eye-tracking. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics , 94 ISSN: 2214-8043 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2021.101753
McSorley, E. , Cruickshank, A. , McCloy, R. (2021) Inhibition of saccade initiation improves saccade accuracy: The role of local and remote visual distractors in the control of saccadic eye movements. Journal of Vision , 21 (3). pp 0. ISSN: 1534-7362 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1167/jov.21.3.17

Morriss, J. , Wake, S. , Lindner, M. , McSorley, E. , Dodd, H. (2020) How many times do I need to see to believe? The impact of intolerance of uncertainty and exposure experience on safety-learning and retention in young adults. International Journal of Psychophysiology , 153 pp. 8-17. ISSN: 0167-8760 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2020.04.012
Williams, L. , McSorley, E. , McCloy, R. (2020) Enhanced associations with actions of the artist influence gaze behaviour. i-Perception , 11 (2). pp 1. ISSN: 2041-6695 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2041669520911059
McSorley, E. , Gilchrist, I. , McCloy, R. (2020) The parallel programming of landing position in saccadic eye movement sequences. Journal of Vision , 20 (1). pp. 1-14. ISSN: 1534-7362 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1167/jov.20.1.2
Brinkmann, H. , Williams, L. , McSorley, E. , Rosenberg, R. (2020) Does ‘action viewing’ really exist? Perceived dynamism and viewing behaviour. Art and Perception , 8 (1). pp. 27-48. ISSN: 2213-4913 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134913-20191128

McSorley, E. , Gilchrist, I. , McCloy, R. (2019) The role of fixation disengagement in the parallel programming of sequences of saccades. Experimental brain research , 237 (11). pp. 3033-3045. ISSN: 1432-1106 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00221-019-05641-9
Morriss, J. and McSorley, E. (2019) Intolerance of uncertainty is associated with reduced attentional inhibition in the absence of direct threat. Behaviour Research and Therapy , 118 pp. 1-6. ISSN: 0005-7967 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2019.03.011
McSorley, E. , Gilchrist, I. , McCloy, R. (2019) The programming of sequences of saccades. Experimental Brain Research , 237 (4). pp. 1009-1018. ISSN: 0014-4819 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00221-019-05481-7

Hedger, N. , Haffey, A. , McSorley, E. , Chakrabarti, B. (2018) Empathy modulates the temporal structure of social attention. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , 285 (1893). ISSN: 0962-8452 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1716
Williams, L. , McSorley, E. , McCloy, R. (2018) The relationship between aesthetic and drawing preferences. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts , 12 (3). pp. 259-271. ISSN: 1931-390X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/aca0000188
Morriss, J. , McSorley, E. , Van Reekum, C. (2018) I don’t know where to look: the impact of intolerance of uncertainty on saccades towards non-predictive emotional face distractors. Cognition and Emotion , 32 (5). pp. 953-962. ISSN: 0269-9931 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2017.1370418

Chakrabarti, B. , Haffey, A. , Canzano, L. , Taylor, C. , McSorley, E. , eds. (2017) Individual differences in responsivity to social rewards: insights from two eye-tracking tasks. In: Lappe, M. , (eds.) PLoS ONE , 12 (10). ISSN: 1932-6203 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185146
Balcombe, K. , Fraser, I. , Williams, L. , McSorley, E. (2017) Examining the relationship between visual attention and stated preferences: a discrete choice experiment using eye-tracking. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization , 144 pp. 238-257. ISSN: 0167-2681 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2017.09.023
Tudge, L. , McSorley, E. , Brandt, S. , Schubert, T. (2017) Setting things straight: a comparison of measures of saccade trajectory deviation. Behavior Research Methods , 49 (6). pp. 2127-2145. ISSN: 1554-351X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-016-0846-6
McSorley, E. , Morriss, J. , Van Reekum, C. (2017) Eye spy with my little eye: motivational relevance of visual stimuli guide eye-movements at different processing stages. Biological Psychology , 123 pp. 8-14. ISSN: 0301-0511 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2016.11.008
Rayson, H. , Parsons, C. , Young, K. , Goodacre, T. , Kringelbach, M. , Bonaiuto, J. , McSorley, E. , Murray, L. (2017) Effects of infant cleft lip on adult gaze and perceptions of ‘cuteness'. Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal , 54 (5). pp. 562-570. ISSN: 1055-6656 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1597/16-015
McSorley, E. and Morriss, J. (2017) What you see is what you want to see: motivationally relevant stimuli can interrupt current resource allocation. Cognition & Emotion , 31 (1). pp. 168-174. ISSN: 0269-9931 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2015.1081872

McSorley, E. , McCloy, R. , Williams, L. (2016) The concurrent programming of saccades. PLoS ONE , 11 (12). ISSN: 1932-6203 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0168724

Balcombe, K. , Fraser, I. , McSorley, E. (2015) Visual attention and attribute attendance in multi-attribute choice experiments. Journal of Applied Econometrics , 30 (3). pp. 447-467. ISSN: 1099-1255 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jae.2383

McSorley, E. , Lyne, C. , McCloy, R. (2014) Dissociation between the impact of evidence on eye movement target choice and confidence judgements. Experimental Brain Research , 232 (6). pp. 1927-1940. ISSN: 1432-1106 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00221-014-3884-2

McSorley, E. and van Reekum, C. (2013) The time course of implicit affective picture processing: an eye movement study. Emotion , 13 (4). pp. 769-773. ISSN: 1931-1516 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0032185

McSorley, E. , McCloy, R. , Lyne, C. (2012) The spatial impact of visual distractors on saccade latency. Vision Research , 60 (1). pp. 61-72. ISSN: 0042-6989 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2012.03.007

McSorley, E. and Cruickshank, A. (2010) Evidence that indirect inhibition of saccade initiation improves saccade accuracy. iPerception , 1 (2). pp. 73-82. ISSN: 2041-6695 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1068/i0388

Saunderson, . , Cruickshank, . , McSorley, . (2009) The eyes have it: eye movements and the debatable differences between original objects and reproductions. In: Dudley, . , (eds.) Museum materialities: objects, engagements, interpretations. Routledge , London. ISBN: 9780415492171
Cruickshank, . and McSorley, . (2009) Involuntary inhibition of movement initiation alters oculomotor competition resolution. Experimental Brain Research , 193 (3). pp. 467-476. ISSN: 0014-4819 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00221-008-1645-9
McSorley, . , Cruickshank, . , Inman, . (2009) The development of the spatial extent of oculomotor inhibition. Brain Research , 1298 pp. 92-98. ISSN: 0006-8993 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2009.08.081
McSorley, . , Haggard, . , Walker, . (2009) The spatial and temporal shape of oculomotor inhibition. Vision Research , 49 (6). pp. 608-614. ISSN: 0042-6989 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2009.01.015
McSorley, . and McCloy, . (2009) Saccadic eye movements as an index of perceptual decision-making. Experimental Brain Research , 198 (4). pp. 513-520. ISSN: 0014-4819 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00221-009-1952-9

Walker, R. and McSorley, E. (2008) The influence of distractors on saccade target selection: saccade trajectory effects. Journal of Eye Movement Research , 2 (3). pp. 1-13. ISSN: 1995-8692

Liversedge, . , Rayner, . , White, . , Findlay, . , McSorley, . (2006) Binocular coordination of the eyes during reading. Current Biology , 16 (17). pp. 1726-1729. ISSN: 0960-9822 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2006.07.051
McSorley, . , Haggard, . , Walker, . (2006) Time course of oculomotor inhibition revealed by saccade trajectory modulation. Journal of Neurophysiology , 96 (3). pp. 1420-1424. ISSN: 0022-3077 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.00315.2006
Walker, . and McSorley, . (2006) The parallel programming of voluntary and reflexive saccades. Vision Research , 46 (13). pp. 2082-2093. ISSN: 0042-6989 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2005.12.009

Ludwig, . , Gilchrist, . , McSorley, . (2005) The remote distractor effect in saccade programming: channel interactions and lateral inhibition. Vision Research , 45 (9). pp. 1177-1190. ISSN: 0042-6989 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2004.10.019
Ludwig, . , Gilchrist, . , McSorley, . , Baddeley, . (2005) The temporal impulse response underlying saccadic decisions. Journal of Neuroscience , 25 (43). pp. 9907-9912. ISSN: 0270-6474 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.2197-05.2005
McSorley, . , Haggard, . , Walker, . (2005) Spatial and temporal aspects of oculomotor inhibition as revealed by saccade trajectories. Vision Research , 45 (19). pp. 2492-2499. ISSN: 0042-6989 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2005.04.012