Profiles
Dr Matthew Hudson
Lecturer in Psychology
School of Psychology (Faculty of Health)
Biography
Biography
Qualifications
Qualifications
PhD Psychology (2010) University of Hull, UK
MSc Evolutionary Psychology (2002) University of Liverpool, UK
BSc Psychology and Criminology (2001) University of Teesside, UK
Background
Lecturer in Psychology, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK, 2021
Lecturer in Psychology, National College of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, 2018
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Turku, Turku, Finland. 2017
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland. 2015
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK, 2013
Lecturer, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia. 2011
Teaching
Teaching
Teaching interests
BSc (Hons) Criminology and Psychology: Pathway Leader
PSYC 607 Psychology in Practice: Module Leader
PSYC 108PP Psychobiological and Cognitive Aspects of Health Behaviour
PSYC 515/705 Health & Wellbeing
PSYC 603 Current Topics in Psychology - Social Cognitive Neuroscience: From Evolution to Public Health
PSYC 001 The Foundations of Psychology
PSYC 002 The Psychology of Everyday Experience
PSYC 003 Psychological Influences on Health and Behaviour
PSYC 004 Career Directions and Applications in Psychology
Research
Research
Research interests
My research interests concern the visual perception of other people's behaviour, and how we are able to predict what they will do based on what we know of their goals and intentions. I am also interested in how this ability may differ in people with autism or schizophrenia. In addition I have conducted research into the neural mechanisms of fear by having people watch a horror movie in an fMRI scanner. I have a growing interest in the social and neural mechanisms of social emotions, such as vicarious embarrassment, and why they are so popular on social media. I would be keen to hear from any potential students who wish to study these topics.
Grants & contracts
Bach, P., Hudson, M. & Ellis, R. (2013). One step ahead: Prediction of other peoples’ behaviour in healthy and autistic individuals. Plymouth University, UK. ESRC Standard proposal. ES/J019178/1. £338,212
Publications
Publications
Key publications
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
(2023) 'Decoding brain basis of laughter and crying in natural scenes' NeuroImage 273, , DOI Open access
(2023) 'Functional organization of social perception networks in the human brain' NeuroImage 272, , DOI Open access
(2023) 'Neural responses to biological motion distinguish autistic and schizotypal traits' Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience , DOI Open access
(2023) 'Pattern recognition reveals sex‐dependent neural substrates of sexual perception' Human Brain Mapping , DOI Open access
(2022) 'Aberrant motor contagion of emotions in psychopathy and high-functioning autism' Cerebral Cortex 33, (2) 374-384 , DOI
(2021) 'Predictive action perception from explicit intention information in autism' Psychonomic Bulletin and Review , DOI Open access
(2021) 'Brain Basis of Psychopathy in Criminal Offenders and General Population' Cerebral Cortex , DOI Open access
(2020) 'Decoding Music-Evoked Emotions in the Auditory and Motor Cortex' Cerebral Cortex 31, (5) 2549-2560 , DOI Open access
(2020) 'Affordance matching predictively shapes the perceptual representation of others’ ongoing actions' Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance , DOI Open access
(2020) 'Dissociable neural systems for unconditioned acute and sustained fear' NeuroImage 216, 116522-116522 , DOI Open access
(2019) 'Cues to intention bias action perception toward the most efficient trajectory' Scientific Reports 9, (1) , DOI Open access
(2018) 'Perceptual Teleology: Expectations of Action Efficiency Bias Social Perception' Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285, (1884) 0-0 , DOI Open access
(2017) 'You Said You Would! The Predictability of Other's Behavior From Their Intentions Determines Predictive Biases in Action Perception' Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance , DOI Open access
(2015) 'Response: No need to match: a comment on Bach, Nicholson, and Hudson's “Affordance-Matching Hypothesis”' Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9, , DOI Open access
(2015) 'One step ahead: The perceived kinematics of others’ actions are biased toward expected goals' Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 145, (1) 1-7 , DOI Open access
(2015) 'I see what you say: Prior knowledge of other’s goals automatically biases the perception of their actions' Cognition 146, 245-250 , DOI Open access
(2015) 'Peripheral cues and gaze direction jointly focus attention and inhibition of return' Cognitive Neuroscience 7, (1-4) 67-73 , DOI Open access
(2014) 'The affordance-matching hypothesis: how objects guide action understanding and prediction' FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE 8, , DOI Open access
(2012) 'Doing, seeing, or both: Effects of learning condition on subsequent action perception' Social Neuroscience 7, (6) 606-621 , DOI Open access
(2012) 'Implicit Social Learning in Relation to Autistic-Like Traits' Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 42, (12) 2534-2545 , DOI Open access
(2011) 'Anticipation of Action Intentions in Autism Spectrum Disorder' Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 42, (8) 1684-1693 , DOI Open access
(2011) 'Learning associations between action and perception: Effects of incompatible training on body part and spatial priming' Brain and Cognition 76, (1) 87-96 , DOI Open access
(2011) 'Resolving ambiguous behavioral intentions by means of involuntary prioritization of gaze processing' Emotion 11, (3) 681-686 , DOI Open access
(2009) 'Anticipating intentional actions: The effect of eye gaze direction on the judgment of head rotation' Cognition 112, (3) 423-434 , DOI Open access
(2005) 'Weak Links and Scene Cliques Within the Small World of Shakespeare' Journal of Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology 3, (1) 57-73 , DOI
'Weak links and scene cliques in Shakespeare's plays' Journal of Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology , DOI Open access
Personal
Personal
Links
https://sites.google.com/view/predictive-social-perception/home