Professor Emily Cross

Visiting Professor (School of Psychology & Neuroscience)

Research interests

As the co-director of the Social Brain in Action Lab (www.soba-lab.com) and the PI on the ERC Starting Grant 'Social Robots' (www.so-bots.com), I lead a team who explores experience-dependent plasticity in the human brain and behaviour using neuroimaging, neurostimulation and behavioural techniques. As I am particularly interested in complex action learning and perception, my team often makes use of action experts and training paradigms from highly skilled motor domains, such as dance, music, gymnastics, contortion, and acrobatics.

In addition, I have a longstanding interest in aesthetic perception, and have performed a number of studies exploring the impact of affective experience on how we perceive others. More recently, as part of the 'Social Robots' project, my team and I are examining how social experience or expectations about artificial agents shape how we perceive and interact with robots. My primary research tools are functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), transcranial magnetic imaging (TMS), transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), reaction time measures, and behavioural training paradigms.

For more information, please visit my lab website at www.soba-lab.com, and the ERC 'Social Robots' project at www.so-bots.com - or find me on Twitter at @brain_on_dance

Publications

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Number of items: 102.

2025

Voges, Amelie, Foster, Mary Ellen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1228-7657 and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2025) What Was I Made for? Evaluating the Effectiveness of Layperson-Designed Robots. In: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2025), Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 25-29 Aug 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Smith, Rebecca A. and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2025) Moving me, moving you: emotional expressivity, empathy, and prior experience shape whole-body movement preferences. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts,

Deshmukh, Amol ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4942-3621, Foster, Mary Ellen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1228-7657 and Cross, Emily ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2025) Leveraging Social Robots to Promote Hand Hygiene: A Cross-Cultural and Socio-Economic Study of Children in Diverse School Settings. In: 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2025), Melbourne, Australia, 04-06 Mar 2025, pp. 371-380. ISBN 9798350378931 (doi: 10.1109/HRI61500.2025.10974217)

Rooksby, Maki ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7763-9556, Goetz, Terry J., Muto, Yumiko and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2025) How do people in the UK and Japan imagine an encounter with a robot?: a story-stem study. In: CHI EA '25: Extended Abstracts of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan, 26 Apr - 01 May 2025, p. 325. ISBN 9798400713958 (doi: 10.1145/3706599.3720127)

2024

Tidoni, Emmanuele, Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698, Ramsey, Richard and Scandola, Michele (2024) Are humanoid robots perceived as mindless mannequins? Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans, 2(2), 100105. (doi: 10.1016/j.chbah.2024.100105)

Voges, Amelie, Foster, Mary Ellen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1228-7657 and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2024) Human, Animal, or Machine? A Design-Based Exploration of Social Robot Embodiment with a Creative Toolkit. In: IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2024), Pasadena, California, 26-30 August 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Jastrzab, Laura E., Chaudhury, Bishakha, Ashley, Sarah A., Koldewyn, Kami and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2024) Beyond human-likeness: Socialness is more influential when attributing mental states to robots. iScience, 27(6), 110070. (doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.110070) (PMID:38947497)

Bretin, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2918-1901, Cross, Emily ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 and Khamis, Mohamed ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7051-5200 (2024) Co-existing with drones: a virtual exploration of proxemic behaviours and users’ insights on social drones. International Journal of Social Robotics, 16(3), pp. 547-567. (doi: 10.1007/s12369-024-01111-7)

Laban, Guy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3796-1804, Morrison, Val and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2024) Social robots for health psychology: a new frontier for improving human health and well-being. European Health Psychologist, 23(1), pp. 1095-1102.

2023

Laban, Guy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3796-1804, Kappas, Arvid, Morrison, Val and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2023) Opening Up to Social Robots: How Emotions Drive Self-Disclosure Behavior. In: 2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Busan, Republic of Korea, 28-31 Aug 2023, pp. 1697-1704. (doi: 10.1109/RO-MAN57019.2023.10309551)

Bretin, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2918-1901, Khamis, Mohamed ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7051-5200 and Cross, Emily ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2023) “Do I Run Away?”: Proximity, Stress and Discomfort in Human-Drone Interaction in Real and Virtual Environments. In: INTERACT 2023: 19th International Conference of Technical Committee 13 (Human- Computer Interaction) of IFIP, York, UK, 28 Aug - 01 Sep 2023, ISBN 9783031422836 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-42283-6_29)

Caruana, Nathan, Moffat, Ryssa, Miguel-Blanco, Aitor and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2023) Perceptions of intelligence & sentience shape children's interactions with robot reading companions. Scientific Reports, 13, 7341. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-32104-7) (PMID:37147422) (PMCID:PMC10162967)

Hsieh, Te-Yi, Chaudhury, Bishakha and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2023) Human–robot cooperation in economic games: people show strong reciprocity but conditional prosociality toward robots. International Journal of Social Robotics, 15(5), pp. 791-805. (doi: 10.1007/s12369-023-00981-7)

Smith, Rebecca A. and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2023) The McNorm library: creating and validating a new library of emotionally expressive whole body dance movements. Psychological Research, 87(2), pp. 484-508. (doi: 10.1007/s00426-022-01669-9) (PMID:35385989) (PMCID:PMC8985749)

Darda, Kohinoor, Carre, Marion and Cross, Emily ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2023) Value attributed to text-based archives generated by artificial intelligence. Royal Society Open Science, 10(2), 220915. (doi: 10.1098/rsos.220915) (PMID:36778947) (PMCID:PMC9905996)

Darda, Kohinoor M. and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2023) The computer, a choreographer? Aesthetic responses to randomly-generated dance choreography by a computer. Heliyon, 9(1), e12750. (doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e12750) (PMID:36685468) (PMCID:PMC9852657)

2022

Laban, Guy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3796-1804, Kappas, Arvid, Morrison, Val and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2022) User Experience of Human-Robot Long-Term Interactions. In: 10th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '22), Christchurch, New Zealand, 05-08 Dec 2022, pp. 287-289. ISBN 9781450393232 (doi: 10.1145/3527188.3563927)

Riddoch, Katie A., Hawkins, Roxanne D. and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2022) Exploring behaviours perceived as important for human—dog bonding and their translation to a robotic platform. PLoS ONE, 17(9), e0274353. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0274353) (PMID:36170337) (PMCID:PMC9518860)

Hsieh, Te-Yi and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2022) People’s dispositional cooperative tendencies towards robots are unaffected by robots’ negative emotional displays in prisoner’s dilemma games. Cognition and Emotion, 36(5), pp. 995-1019. (doi: 10.1080/02699931.2022.2054781) (PMID:35389323)

Darda, Kohinoor M. and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2022) The role of expertise and culture in visual art appreciation. Scientific Reports, 12, 10666. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-14128-7) (PMID:35739137) (PMCID:PMC9219380)

Tidoni, Emmanuele, Holle, Henning, Scandola, Michele, Schindler, Igor, Hill, Loron and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2022) Human but not robotic gaze facilitates action prediction. iScience, 25(6), 104462. (doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104462) (PMID:35707718) (PMCID:PMC9189121)

Bretin, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2918-1901, Cross, Emily ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 and Khamis, Mohamed ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7051-5200 (2022) Co-existing With a Drone: Using Virtual Reality to Investigate the Effect of the Drone’s Height and Cover Story on Proxemic Behaviours. In: 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22), New Orleans, LA, USA, 30 Apr - 05 May 2022, p. 377. ISBN 9781450391566 (doi: 10.1145/3491101.3519750)

Lomas, J. D. et al. (2022) Resonance as a design strategy for AI and social robots. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 16, 850489. (doi: 10.3389/fnbot.2022.850489) (PMID:35574227) (PMCID:PMC9097027)

Laban, Guy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3796-1804, Morrison, Val, Kappas, Arvid and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2022) Informal Caregivers Disclose Increasingly More to a Social Robot Over Time. In: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI22), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 29 April - 5 May 2022, p. 329. ISBN 9781450391566 (doi: 10.1145/3491101.3519666)

Powell, Henry, Laban, Guy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3796-1804, George, Jean-Noël and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2022) Is Deep Learning a Valid Approach for Inferring Subjective Self-Disclosure in Human-Robot Interactions? In: 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '22), Sapporo, Japan, 07-10 Mar 2022, pp. 991-996. ISBN 9781665407311 (doi: 10.5555/3523760.3523921)

Laban, Guy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3796-1804, Ben-Zion, Ziv and Cross, Emily ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2022) Social robots for supporting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder diagnosis and treatment. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 752874. (doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.752874) (PMID:35185629) (PMCID:PMC8854768)

2021

Hortensius, Ruud ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5279-6202, Kent, Michaela, Darda, Kohinoor M., Jastrzab, Laura, Koldweyn, Kami, Ramsey, Richard and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2021) Exploring the relationship between anthropomorphism and theory-of-mind in brain and behaviour. Human Brain Mapping, 42(13), pp. 4224-4241. (doi: 10.1002/hbm.25542) (PMID:34196439)

Lim, Velvetina, Rooksby, Maki ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7763-9556 and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2021) Social robots on a global stage: establishing a role for culture during a Human-Robot interaction. International Journal of Social Robotics, 13(6), pp. 1307-1333. (doi: 10.1007/s12369-020-00710-4)

Finisguerra, Alessandra, Ticini, Luca F., Kirsch, Louise P., Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698, Kotz, Sonja A. and Urgesi, Cosimo (2021) Dissociating embodiment and emotional reactivity in motor responses to artworks. Cognition, 212, 104663. (doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104663) (PMID:33761410)

Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 and Ramsey, Richard (2021) Mind meets machine: towards a cognitive science of human–machine interactions. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 25(3), pp. 200-212. (doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2020.11.009) (PMID:33384213)

Henschel, Anna, Laban, Guy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3796-1804 and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2021) What makes a robot social? A review of social robots from science fiction to a home or hospital near you. Current Robotics Reports, 2(1), pp. 9-19. (doi: 10.1007/s43154-020-00035-0) (PMCID:PMC7860159)

Riddoch, Katie A. and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2021) “Hit the robot on the head with this mallet” – making a case for including more open questions in HRI research. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 8, 603510. (doi: 10.3389/frobt.2021.603510) (PMID:33718438) (PMCID:PMC7947676)

Ramsey, Richard, Kaplan, David M. and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2021) Watch and learn: the cognitive neuroscience of learning from others' actions. Trends in Neurosciences, (doi: 10.1016/j.tins.2021.01.007) (PMID:33637286)

Laban, Guy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3796-1804, George, Jean-Noel, Morrison, Val and Cross, Emily ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2021) Tell me more! Assessing interactions with social robots from speech. Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics, 12(1), pp. 136-159. (doi: 10.1515/pjbr-2021-0011)

2020

Orlandi, Andrea, Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 and Orgs, Guido (2020) Timing is everything: dance aesthetics depend on the complexity of movement kinematics. Cognition, 205, 104446. (doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104446) (PMID:32932073)

Williams, Elin H., Bilbao-Broch, Laura, Downing, Paul E. and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2020) Examining the value of body gestures in social reward contexts. NeuroImage, 222, 117276. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117276) (PMID:32818616) (PMCID:PMC7779365)

Henschel, Anna, Hortensius, Ruud ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5279-6202 and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2020) Social cognition in the age of human–robot interaction. Trends in Neurosciences, 43(6), pp. 373-384. (doi: 10.1016/j.tins.2020.03.013) (PMID:32362399)

Laban, Guy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3796-1804, Morrison, Val and Cross, Emily ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2020) Let's Talk About It! Subjective and Objective Disclosures to Social Robots. In: 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Cambridge, UK, 23-26 March 2020, pp. 328-330. ISBN 9781450370578 (doi: 10.1145/3371382.3378252)

Henschel, Anna and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2020) No evidence for enhanced likeability and social motivation towards robots after synchrony experience. Interaction Studies, 21(1), pp. 7-23. (doi: 10.1075/is.19004.hen)

Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2020) Embodying expertise as a performer and perceiver: insights from the arts and robotics. In: Fridland, Ellen and Pavese, Carlotta (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Skill and Expertise. Routledge: London, pp. 281-291. ISBN 9781315180809 (doi: 10.4324/9781315180809-28)

2019

Williams, Elin H., Cristino, Fil and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2019) Human body motion captures visual attention and elicits pupillary dilation. Cognition, 193, 104029. (doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104029) (PMID:31352014)

Apšvalka, Dace, Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 and Ramsey, Richard (2019) Fluid intelligence and working memory support dissociable aspects of learning by physical but not observational practice. Cognition, 190, pp. 170-183. (doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2019.04.015) (PMID:31100547) (PMCID:PMC6711769)

Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698, Hortensius, Ruud ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5279-6202 and Wykowska, Agnieszka (2019) From social brains to social robots: applying neurocognitive insights to human-robot interaction. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 374(1771), 20180024. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0024)

Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698, Riddoch, Katie A., Pratts, Jaydan, Titone, Simon, Chaudhury, Bishakha and Hortensius, Ruud ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5279-6202 (2019) A neurocognitive investigation of the impact of socializing with a robot on empathy for pain. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 374(1771), 20180034. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0034) (PMID:30852995)

2018

Hortensius, Ruud, Hekele, Felix and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2018) The perception of emotion in artificial agents. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 10(4), pp. 852-864. (doi: 10.1109/TCDS.2018.2826921)

Apshvalka, Dace, Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 and Ramsey, Richard (2018) Observing action sequences elicits sequence-specific neural representations in frontoparietal brain regions. Journal of Neuroscience, 38(47), pp. 10114-10128. (doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1597-18.2018) (PMID:30282731) (PMCID:PMC6596197)

Hortensius, Ruud ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5279-6202 and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2018) From automata to animate beings: the scope and limits of attributing socialness to artificial agents. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1426(1), pp. 93-110. (doi: 10.1111/nyas.13727) (PMID:29749634)

Kirsch, Louise P., Diersch, Nadine, Sumanapla, Dilini K. and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2018) Dance training shapes action perception and its neural implementation within the young and older adult brain. Neural Plasticity, 2018, 5459106. (doi: 10.1155/2018/5459106)

Apšvalka, Dace, Ramsey, Richard and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2018) Anodal tDCS over primary motor cortex provides no advantage to learning motor sequences via observation. Neural Plasticity, 2018, 1237962. (doi: 10.1155/2018/1237962)

Wykowska, Agnieszka, Metta, Giorgio, Becchio, Cristina, Hortensius, Ruud ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5279-6202 and Cross, Emily ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2018) Cognitive and Social Neuroscience Methods for HRI. 13th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI 2018), Chicago, IL, USA, 5-8 March 2018. pp. 405-406. ISBN 9781450356152 (doi: 10.1145/3173386.3173563)

Lakens, D. et al. (2018) Justify your alpha. Nature Human Behaviour, 2, pp. 168-171. (doi: 10.1038/s41562-018-0311-x)

Williams, Elin H. and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2018) Decreased reward value of biological motion among individuals with autistic traits. Cognition, 171, pp. 1-9. (doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2017.10.017) (PMID:29101779)

Kirsch, Louise P. and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2018) The influence of sensorimotor experience on the aesthetic evaluation of dance across the life span. In: Christensen, Julia F. and Gomila, Antoni (eds.) The Arts and The Brain: Psychology and Physiology Beyond Pleasure. Series: Progress in brain research (237). Academic Press: Cambridge, MA, pp. 291-316. ISBN 9780128139813 (doi: 10.1016/bs.pbr.2018.03.012)

Sumanapala, Dilini K., Walbrin, Jon, Kirsch, Louise P. and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2018) Neurodevelopmental perspectives on dance learning: insights from early adolescence and young adulthood. In: Christensen, Julia F. and Gomila, Antoni (eds.) The Arts and the Brain: Psychology and Physiology Beyond Pleasure. Series: Progress in Brain Research (237). Elsevier, pp. 243-277. ISBN 9780128139813 (doi: 10.1016/bs.pbr.2018.03.010)

2017

Sumanapala, D.K. and Cross, E.S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2017) Learning complex actions through physical vs. observational experience: implications and applications for dance and other performing arts. In: Hansen, P. and Bläsing, B.. (eds.) Performing the Remembered Past: the Cognition of Memory in Dance, Theatre and Music. Series: Performance and science: interdisciplinary dialogues. Bloomsbury Methuen Drama: New York, pp. 133-152. ISBN 9781474284714

Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698, Hamilton, Antonia F. de C., Cohen, Nichola Rice and Grafton, Scott T. (2017) Learning to tie the knot: the acquisition of functional object representations by physical and observational experience. PLoS ONE, 12(10), e0185044. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0185044) (PMID:29023463) (PMCID:PMC5638238)

Gardner, Tom, Aglinskas, Aidas and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2017) Using guitar learning to probe the Action Observation Network's response to visuomotor familiarity. NeuroImage, 156, pp. 174-189. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.04.060) (PMID:28479473)

Sumanapala, Dilini K., Fish, Laurel A., Jones, Alex L. and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2017) Have I grooved to this before? Discriminating practised and observed actions in a novel context. Acta Psychologica, 175, pp. 42-49. (doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2017.02.008) (PMID:28284106)

Gardner, Tom and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2017) Observing and learning complex actions: on the example of guitar playing. In: Müller, B., Wolf, S.I., Brueggemann, G.-P., Deng, Z., McIntosh, A., Miller, F. and Selbie, W.S. (eds.) Handbook of Human Motion. Springer. ISBN 9783319308081 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-30808-1_191-1)

2016

Obhi, Sukhvinder S. and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (Eds.) (2016) Shared Representations: Sensorimotor Foundations of Social Life. Series: Cambridge social neuroscience. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781107050204

Cross, E.S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 and Calvo-Merino, B. (2016) The impact of action expertise on shared representations. In: Obhi, S.S. and Cross, E.S. (eds.) Shared Representations: Sensorimotor Foundations of Social Life. Series: Cambridge social neuroscience. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 541-562. ISBN 9781107690318 (doi: 10.1017/CBO9781107279353.027)

Kirsch, Louise P., Snagg, Arielle, Heerey, Erin and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2016) The impact of experience on affective responses during action observation. PLoS ONE, 11(5), e0154681. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0154681) (PMID:27149106) (PMCID:PMC4858140)

Kirsch, Louise P., Urgesi, Cosimo and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2016) Shaping and reshaping the aesthetic brain: emerging perspectives on the neurobiology of embodied aesthetics. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 62, pp. 56-68. (doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2015.12.005) (PMID:26698020)

Catmur, Caroline, Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 and Over, Harriet (2016) Understanding self and others: from origins to disorders. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371(1686), 20150066. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0066) (PMID:26644602) (PMCID:PMC4685513)

Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698, Ramsey, Richard, Liepelt, Roman, Prinz, Wolfgang and Hamilton, Antonia F. de C. (2016) The shaping of social perception by stimulus and knowledge cues to human animacy. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371(1686), 20150075. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0075) (PMID:26644594) (PMCID:PMC4685521)

Diersch, Nadine, Jones, Alex L. and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2016) The timing and precision of action prediction in the aging brain. Human Brain Mapping, 37(1), pp. 54-66. (doi: 10.1002/hbm.23012) (PMID:26503586) (PMCID:PMC5082531)

2015

Kirsch, Louise P. and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2015) Additive routes to action learning: layering experience shapes engagement of the action observation network. Cerebral Cortex, 25(12), pp. 4799-4811. (doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhv167) (PMID:26209850) (PMCID:PMC4635920)

Marquardt, Gesine, Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698, de Sousa, Alexandra A., Edelstein, Eve, Farnè, Alessandro, Leszczynski, Marcin, Patterson, Miles and Quadflieg, Susanne (2015) There or not there? A multidisciplinary review and research agenda on the impact of transparent barriers on human perception, action, and social behavior. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1381. (doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01381) (PMID:26441756) (PMCID:PMC4569749)

Ganesh, Shanti, van Schie, Hein T., Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698, de Lange, Floris P. and Wigboldus, Daniël H.J. (2015) Disentangling neural processes of egocentric and allocentric mental spatial transformations using whole-body photos of self and other. NeuroImage, 116, pp. 30-39. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.05.003) (PMID:25976923)

Cross, E.S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2015) Beautiful embodiment: the shaping of aesthetic preference by personal experience. In: Huston, J.P., Nadal, M., Mora, F., Agnati, L.F. and Cela-Conde, C.J. (eds.) Art, Aesthetics and the Brain. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 189-208. ISBN 9780199670000

Kirsch, Louise P., Dawson, Kelvin and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2015) Dance experience sculpts aesthetic perception and related brain circuits. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1337(1), pp. 130-139. (doi: 10.1111/nyas.12634) (PMID:25773627) (PMCID:PMC4402020)

Gardner, Tom, Goulden, Nia and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2015) Dynamic modulation of the action observation network by movement familiarity. Journal of Neuroscience, 35(4), pp. 1561-1572. (doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2942-14.2015) (PMID:25632133) (PMCID:PMC4308602)

2014

Oosterhof, Nikolaas N., Wiggett, Alison J. and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2014) Testing key predictions of the associative account of mirror neurons in humans using multivariate pattern analysis. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37(02), pp. 213-215. (doi: 10.1017/S0140525X13000903) (PMID:24775171)

Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 and Elizarova, Anastassia (2014) Motor control in action: using dance to explore the intricate choreography between action perception and production in the human brain. In: Levin, Mindy F. (ed.) Progress in Motor Control: Skill Learning, Performance, Health, and Injury. Series: Advances in experimental medicine and biology (826). Springer: New York, pp. 147-160. ISBN 9781493913374 (doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-1338-1_10)

2013

Ramsey, Richard, Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 and de C. Hamilton, Antonia F. (2013) Supramodal and modality-sensitive representations of perceived action categories in the human brain. Experimental Brain Research, 230(3), pp. 345-357. (doi: 10.1007/s00221-013-3659-1) (PMID:23963602)

Avenanti, Alessio, Diersch, Nadine, Mueller, Karsten, Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698, Stadler, Waltraud, Rieger, Martina and Schütz-Bosbach, Simone (2013) Action prediction in younger versus older adults: neural correlates of motor familiarity. PLoS ONE, 8(5), e64195. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064195) (PMID:23704980) (PMCID:PMC3660406)

Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698, Stadler, Waltraud, Parkinson, Jim, Schütz-Bosbach, Simone and Prinz, Wolfgang (2013) The influence of visual training on predicting complex action sequences. Human Brain Mapping, 34(2), pp. 467-486. (doi: 10.1002/hbm.21450) (PMID:22102260)

Grossmann, Tobias, Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698, Ticini, Luca F. and Daum, Moritz M. (2013) Action observation in the infant brain: the role of body form and motion. Social Neuroscience, 8(1), pp. 22-30. (doi: 10.1080/17470919.2012.696077) (PMID:22694145) (PMCID:PMC3556794)

2012

Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698, Cohen, Nichola Rice, Hamilton, Antonia F. de C., Ramsey, Richard, Wolford, George and Grafton, Scott T. (2012) Physical experience leads to enhanced object perception in parietal cortex: insights from knot tying. Neuropsychologia, 50(14), pp. 3207-3217. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.09.028) (PMID:23022108) (PMCID:PMC3588172)

Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698, Liepelt, Roman, de C. Hamilton, Antonia F., Parkinson, Jim, Ramsey, Richard, Stadler, Waltraud and Prinz, Wolfgang (2012) Robotic movement preferentially engages the action observation network. Human Brain Mapping, 33(9), pp. 2238-2254. (doi: 10.1002/hbm.21361) (PMID:21898675)

Diersch, Nadine, Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698, Stadler, Waltraud, Schütz-Bosbach, Simone and Rieger, Martina (2012) Representing others’ actions: the role of expertise in the aging mind. Psychological Research, 76(4), pp. 525-541. (doi: 10.1007/s00426-011-0404-x) (PMID:22198511)

Ramsey, Richard, Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 and de C. Hamilton, Antonia F. (2012) Predicting others’ actions via grasp and gaze: evidence for distinct brain networks. Psychological Research, 76(4), pp. 494-502. (doi: 10.1007/s00426-011-0393-9) (PMID:22120203)

Springer, Anne, de C. Hamilton, Antonia F. and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2012) Simulating and predicting others’ actions. Psychological Research, 76(4), pp. 383-387. (doi: 10.1007/s00426-012-0443-y) (PMID:22706683)

Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 and Ticini, Luca F. (2012) Neuroaesthetics and beyond: new horizons in applying the science of the brain to the art of dance. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 11(1), pp. 5-16. (doi: 10.1007/s11097-010-9190-y)

Bläsing, Bettina, Calvo-Merino, Beatriz, Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698, Jola, Corinne, Honisch, Juliane and Stevens, Catherine J. (2012) Neurocognitive control in dance perception and performance. Acta Psychologica, 139(2), pp. 300-308. (doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2011.12.005) (PMID:22305351)

Cross, E.S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2012) Observational learning of complex motor skills: dance. In: Seel, N. (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning. Series: Springer reference. Springer, pp. 2491-2493. ISBN 9781441914279 (doi: 10.1007/978-1-4419-1428-6_78)

Cross, E.S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 and Ramsey, R. (2012) Neurophysiological correlates of learning to dance. In: Seel, N. (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning. Series: Springer reference. Springer, pp. 2452-2454. ISBN 9781441914279 (doi: 10.1007/978-1-4419-1428-6_77)

2011

Ramsey, Richard, Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 and Hamilton, Antonia F. de C. (2011) Eye can see what you want: posterior intraparietal sulcus encodes the object of an actor's gaze. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(11), pp. 3400-3409. (doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_00074) (PMID:21671736)

Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698, Kirsch, Louise, Ticini, Luca F. and Schütz-Bosbach, Simone (2011) The impact of aesthetic evaluation and physical ability on dance perception. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 5, 102. (doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00102) (PMID:21960969) (PMCID:PMC3177045)

Ramsey, Richard, van Schie, Hein T. and Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2011) No two are the same: body shape is part of identifying others. Cognitive Neuroscience, 2(3-4), pp. 207-208. (doi: 10.1080/17588928.2011.604721) (PMID:24168538)

2010

Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698, Mackie, Emilie C., Wolford, George and de C. Hamilton, Antonia F. (2010) Contorted and ordinary body postures in the human brain. Experimental Brain Research, 204(3), pp. 397-407. (doi: 10.1007/s00221-009-2093-x) (PMID:19943038) (PMCID:PMC2895886)

Cross, E.S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2010) Building a dance in the human brain: Insights from expert and novice dancers. In: Bläsing, B., Puttke-Voss, M. and Schack, T. (eds.) The Neurocognition of Dance: Mind, Movement and Motor Skills. Psychology Press: Hove, East Susses ; New York, pp. 177-202. ISBN 9781848720244

2009

Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698, Hamilton, Antonia F. de C., Kraemer, David J. M., Kelley, William M. and Grafton, Scott T. (2009) Dissociable substrates for body motion and physical experience in the human action observation network. European Journal of Neuroscience, 30(7), pp. 1383-1392. (doi: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.06941.x) (PMID:19788567)

Aminoff, E. M. et al. (2009) The landscape of cognitive neuroscience: challenges, rewards, and new perspectives. In: Gazzaniga, M.S. (ed.) The Cognitive Neurosciences (4th Edition). MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass, pp. 1255-1292. ISBN 9780262013413

Cohen, Nichola Rice, Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698, Wymbs, Nicholas F. and Grafton, Scott T. (2009) Transient disruption of M1 during response planning impairs subsequent offline consolidation. Experimental Brain Research, 196(2), pp. 303-309. (doi: 10.1007/s00221-009-1838-x) (PMID:19462166) (PMCID:PMC2693775)

Cohen, Nichola Rice, Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698, Tunik, Eugene, Grafton, Scott T. and Culham, Jody C. (2009) Ventral and dorsal stream contributions to the online control of immediate and delayed grasping: a TMS approach. Neuropsychologia, 47(6), pp. 1553-1562. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.12.034) (PMID:19168086)

Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698, Kraemer, David J.M., Hamilton, Antonie F. d. C., Kelley, William M. and Grafton, Scott T. (2009) Sensitivity of the action observation network to physical and observational learning. Cerebral Cortex, 19(2), pp. 315-326. (doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhn083) (PMID:18515297) (PMCID:PMC2638791)

2008

Grafton, S.T. and Cross, E.S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 (2008) Dance and the brain. In: Ashbury, Carolyn H., Rich, Barbara and Gazzaniga, Michael S. (eds.) Learning, Arts and the Brain: The Dana Consortium Report on Arts and Cognition. Dana Press: New York, pp. 61-68. ISBN 9781932594362

2007

Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698, Schmitt, Paul J. and Grafton, Scott T. (2007) Neural substrates of contextual interference during motor learning support a model of active preparation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19(11), pp. 1854-1871. (doi: 10.1162/jocn.2007.19.11.1854) (PMID:17958488)

Rice, Nichola J., Tunik, Eugene, Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 and Grafton, Scott T. (2007) On-line grasp control is mediated by the contralateral hemisphere. Brain Research, 1175, pp. 76-84. (doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.08.009) (PMID:17888413) (PMCID:PMC2093953)

2006

Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698, Hamilton, Antonia F. de C. and Grafton, Scott T. (2006) Building a motor simulation de novo: Observation of dance by dancers. NeuroImage, 31(3), pp. 1257-1267. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.01.033) (PMID:16530429) (PMCID:PMC1821082)

2004

Cross, Emily S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 and Burke, Deborah M. (2004) Do alternative names block young and older adults’ retrieval of proper names? Brain and Language, 89(1), pp. 174-181. (doi: 10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00363-8) (PMID:15010248)

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Lomas, J. D. et al. (2022) Resonance as a design strategy for AI and social robots. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 16, 850489. (doi: 10.3389/fnbot.2022.850489) (PMID:35574227) (PMCID:PMC9097027)

Lakens, D. et al. (2018) Justify your alpha. Nature Human Behaviour, 2, pp. 168-171. (doi: 10.1038/s41562-018-0311-x)

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Bretin, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2918-1901, Cross, Emily ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-5698 and Khamis, Mohamed ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7051-5200 (2022) Co-existing With a Drone: Using Virtual Reality to Investigate the Effect of the Drone’s Height and Cover Story on Proxemic Behaviours. In: 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22), New Orleans, LA, USA, 30 Apr - 05 May 2022, p. 377. ISBN 9781450391566 (doi: 10.1145/3491101.3519750)

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Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.

HandHygieneBots
EPSRC EU Guarantee
2022 - 2024
Improving Human Robot Collaboration Using Intention Signalling
Natural Environment Research Council
2020 - 2021
The European Training Network on Informal Care
European Commission
2018 - 2022
SOCIAL ROBOTS
European Research Council
2016 - 2021

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Cross, E. , Sproules, S., Schweins, R., Draper, E. and Adams, D. (2018) Controlled Tuning of the Properties in Optoelectronic Self-Sorted Gels. [Data Collection] (Unpublished)

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