Katie Gray
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Associate Professor
- MSc Psychology Conversion Programme Director
- School Director for Recruitment and Admissions
Areas of interest
Emotion processing, face processing, conscious awareness, attention.Teaching
Project supervision and various modules, including Perception and Neuroscience, and Face Processing and Recognition.
Research centres and groups
- Perception and Action
- Psychopathology and Affective Neuroscience.
Academic qualifications
BSc, MSc and PhD from the University of Southampton.Publications
- Tsantani, M. , Gray, K. , Cook, R. (2022) New evidence of impaired expression recognition in developmental prosopagnosia. Cortex , 154 pp. 15-26. ISSN: 0010-9452 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2022.05.008
- Gehdu, B. , Gray, K. , Cook, R. (2022) Impaired grouping of ambient facial images in autism. Scientific Reports ISSN: 2045-2322
- Vestner, T. , Gray, K. , Cook, R. (2022) Sensitivity to orientation is not unique to social attention cueing. Scientific Reports , 12 (1). pp 0. ISSN: 2045-2322 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-09011-4
- Tsantani, M. , Podgajecka, V. , Gray, K. , Cook, R. (2022) How does the presence of a surgical face mask impair the perceived intensity of facial emotions?. PLoS ONE , 17 (1). ISSN: 1932-6203 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262344
- Vestner, T. , Over, H. , Gray, K. , Tipper, S. , Cook, R. (2021) Searching for people: non-facing distractor pairs hinder the visual search of social scenes more than facing distractor pairs. Cognition ISSN: 0010-0277 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104737
- Noyes, E. , Davis, J. , Petrov, N. , Gray, K. , Ritchie, K. (2021) The effect of face masks and sunglasses on identity and expression recognition with super-recognisers and typical observers. Royal Society Open Science , 8 (3). ISSN: 2054-5703 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201169
- Vestner, T. , Over, H. , Gray, K. , Cook, R. (2021) Objects that direct visuospatial attention produce the search advantage for facing dyads. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General ISSN: 1939-2222 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0001067
- Bunce, C. , Gray, K. , Cook, R. (2021) The perception of interpersonal distance is distorted by the Müller-Lyer illusion. Scientific Reports , 11 ISSN: 2045-2322 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-80073-y
- Vestner, T. , Gray, K. , Cook, R. (2021) Visual search for facing and non-facing people: the effect of actor inversion. Cognition , 208 ISSN: 0010-0277 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104550
- Tsantani, M. , Gray, K. , Cook, R. (2020) Holistic processing of facial identity in developmental prosopagnosia. Cortex , 130 pp. 318-326. ISSN: 0010-9452 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.06.003
- Vestner, T. , Gray, K. , Cook, R. (2020) Why are social interactions found quickly in visual search tasks?. Cognition , 200 ISSN: 0010-0277 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104270
- Gray, K. , Flack, T. , Yu, M. , Lygo, F. , Baker, D. (2020) Nonlinear transduction of emotional facial expression. Vision Research , 170 pp. 1-11. ISSN: 0042-6989 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2020.03.004
- Gray, K. , Guillemin, Y. , Cenac, Z. , Gibbons, S. , Vestner, T. , Cook, R. (2020) Are the facial gender and facial age variants of the composite face illusion products of a common mechanism?. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review , 27 (1). pp. 62-69. ISSN: 1069-9384 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-019-01684-9
- Murphy, J. , Gray, K. , Cook, R. (2020) Inverted faces benefit from whole-face processing. Cognition , 194 ISSN: 0010-0277 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104105
- Marsh, J. , Biotti, F. , Cook, R. , Gray, K. (2019) The discrimination of facial sex in developmental prosopagnosia. Scientific Reports , 9 (1). ISSN: 2045-2322 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-55569-x
- Brewer, R. , Bird, G. , Gray, K. , Cook, R. (2019) Face perception in autism spectrum disorder: modulation of holistic processing by facial emotion. Cognition , 193 ISSN: 0010-0277 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104016
- Cenac, Z. , Biotti, F. , Gray, K. , Cook, R. (2019) Does developmental prosopagnosia impair identification of other-ethnicity faces?. Cortex , 119 pp. 12-19. ISSN: 0010-9452 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2019.04.007
- Gray, K. , Biotti, F. , Cook, R. (2019) Evaluating object recognition ability in developmental prosopagnosia using the Cambridge Car Memory Test. Cognitive Neuropsychology , 36 (1-2). pp. 89-96. ISSN: 1464-0627 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2019.1604503
- Biotti, F. , Gray, K. , Cook, R. (2019) Is developmental prosopagnosia best characterised as an apperceptive or mnemonic condition?. Neuropsychologia , 124 pp. 285-298. ISSN: 0028-3932 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.11.014
- Gray, K. , Haffey, A. , Mihaylova, H. , Chakrabarti, B. (2018) Lack of privileged access to awareness for rewarding social scenes in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders , 48 (10). pp. 3311-3318. ISSN: 0162-3257 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-018-3595-9
- Gray, K. and Cook, R. (2018) Should developmental prosopagnosia, developmental body agnosia, and developmental object agnosia be considered independent neurodevelopmental conditions?. Cognitive Neuropsychology , 35 (1-2). pp. 59-62. ISSN: 1464-0627 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2018.1433153
- Biotti, F. , Gray, K. , Cook, R. (2017) Impaired body perception in developmental prosopagnosia. Cortex , 93 pp. 41-49. ISSN: 0010-9452 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2017.05.006
- Gray, K. , Murphy, J. , Marsh, J. , Cook, R. (2017) Modulation of the composite face effect by unintended emotion cues. Royal Society Open Science , 4 (4). ISSN: 2054-5703 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160867
- Gray, K. , Bird, G. , Cook, R. (2017) Robust associations between the 20-Item Prosopagnosia Index and the Cambridge Face Memory Test in the general population. Royal Society Open Science , 4 (3). ISSN: 2054-5703 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160923
- Gray, K. , Barber, L. , Murphy, J. , Cook, R. (2017) Social interaction contexts bias the perceived expressions of interactants. Emotion , 17 (4). pp. 567-571. ISSN: 1931-1516 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0000257
- Murphy, J. , Gray, K. , Cook, R. (2017) The composite face illusion. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review , 24 (2). pp. 245-261. ISSN: 1069-9384 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-016-1131-5
- Hedger, N. , Gray, K. , Garner, M. , Adams, W. (2016) Are visual threats prioritized without awareness? A critical review and meta analysis involving 3 behavioral paradigms and 2696 observers. Psychological Bulletin , 142 (9). pp. 934-968. ISSN: 1939-1455 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/bul0000054
- Lynch, T. , Gray, K. , Hempel, R. , Titley, M. , Chen, E. , O'Mahen, H. (2013) Radically open-dialectical behavior therapy for adult anorexia nervosa: feasibility and outcomes from an inpatient program. BMC Psychiatry , 13 ISSN: 1476-1793 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-13-293
- Gray, K. , Adams, W. , Hedger, N. , Newton, K. , Garner, M. (2013) Faces and awareness: low-level, not emotional factors determine perceptual dominance. Emotion , 13 (3). pp. 537-544. ISSN: 1931-1516 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0031403
- Adams, W. , Gray, K. , Garner, M. , Graf, E. (2011) On the 'special' status of emotional faces... Comment on Yang, Hong, and Blake (2010). Journal of Vision , 11 (3). pp. 1-4. ISSN: 1534-7362 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1167/11.3.10
- Adams, W. , Gray, K. , Garner, M. , Graf, E. (2010) High-level face adaptation without awareness. Psychological Science , 21 (2). pp. 205-210. ISSN: 0956-7976 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797609359508
- Gray, K. , Adams, W. , Garner, M. (2009) The influence of anxiety on the initial selection of emotional faces presented in binocular rivalry. Cognition , 113 (1). pp. 105-110. ISSN: 0010-0277 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2009.06.009