Dr Vincent Reid M.

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Research Interests

My research focuses on various developmental aspects of social perception and cognition during early development, namely: (1) Social-cognitive processes from biological motion detection and interpretation through to the perception of human action; (2) Methodology and recently (3) Late term fetal development. I use a number of techniques in order to investigate these issues, including brain derived measures (EEG/ERP), behavioural paradigms and interventions.

Biological Motion and Human Action

How does the identification of conspecifics change within the first postnatal year? Identifying others of the same species is a foundational skill that is required for further increments in social-cognitive abilities. One fundamental topic in the developmental sciences must therefore be how human infants, with limited experience, nonetheless discriminate various forms of motion. It is an area ripe for the examination of the role of experience in such cognitive skills.

Understanding others’ action sequences is fundamental for perceiving complex aspects of human movement, such as detecting goal directed behavior and intentional actions. Perceiving these aspects of human behaviour is necessary for abilities that are essential for human cultural skills, such as imitation and language learning. The neural basis of action processing as seen in the adult brain raises some fascinating questions for developmental psychologists.

Methodology

As psychologists, we often use very precise and complex devices to assess elements of human behaviour or brain activity. As a developmental psychologist, it has become increasingly clear to me that many of the techniques that we use are co-opted from adult research, despite the fact that this has implications which have not been fully considered. A recent theme of my publications has been to explore elements of the methods that are regularly used and to understand how infant populations have specific characteristics that impact on obtained results.

Late Term Fetal Development

My lab is currently attempting to understand the visual and auditory world in utero. Extensive work has been conducted into postnatal perceptual and cognitive development but very little is known about how perception and cognition might develop before this point. For example, newborn infants have a visual preference for face-like stimuli, can discriminate between small sets of numbers and can match mouth movements to simple speech sounds. If such capacities are shown in the late term human fetus, what mechanisms might explain the emergence and development of these perceptual and cognitive processes? Most of our efforts at the moment are focussed on developing methods related to delivering visual stimuli to the fetus in a way that is safe, ethical and effective. We then use 4D ultrasound to measure fetal behaviours, including head orientations and fixations times towards stimuli and facial behaviour.

The development of brain mechanisms for social attention in humans
Reid, V., Dunn, K. 10/09/2015 In: The many faces of social attention. Springer p. 67-91. 25 p. ISBN: 9783319213675. Electronic ISBN: 9783319213682.
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The functional foetal brain: a systematic preview of methodological factors in reporting fetal visual and auditory capacity
Dunn, K., Reissland, N., Reid, V. 06/2015 In: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 13, p. 43-52. 10 p.
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The neuropsychology of infants' pro-social preferences
Gredebäck, G., Kaduk, K., Bakker, M., Gottwald, J., Ekberg, T., Elsner, C., Reid, V., Kenward, B. 04/2015 In: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 12, p. 106-113. 8 p.
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The developmental cognitive neuroscience of action: semantics, motor resonance and social processing
Ni Choisdealbha, A., Reid, V. 06/2014 In: Experimental Brain Research. 232, 6, p. 1585-1597. 13 p.
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Eye contact during live social interaction modulates infants' oscillatory brain activity
Hoehl, S., Michel, C., Reid, V., Parise, E., Striano, T. 2014 In: Social Neuroscience. 9, 3, p. 300-308. 9 p.
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Discrimination of animate and inanimate motion in 9-month-old infants: an ERP study
Kaduk, K., Elsner, B., Reid, V. 10/2013 In: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 6, p. 14-22. 9 p.
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Infants need more variety – increased data acquisition with reduced participant attrition in infant ERP studies
Stets, M., Burt, M., Reid, V. 18/03/2013 In: Frontiers in Psychology. 4, 117
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The neural correlates of passively viewed sequences of true and false beliefs
Geangu, E., Gibson, A., Kaduk, K., Reid, V.M. 2013 In: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 8, 4, p. 432-437. 6 p.
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Investigating the biographic, social and temperamental correlates of young infants' sleeping, crying and feeding routines
Kaley, F., Reid, V., Flynn, E. 06/2012 In: Infant Behavior and Development. 35, 3, p. 596-605. 10 p.
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A meta-analysis investigating factors underlying attrition rates in infant ERP studies
Stets, M., Stahl, D., Reid, V.M. 2012 In: Developmental Neuropsychology. 37, 3, p. 226-252. 27 p.
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Introduction to the special issue: Infant EEG comes of age
Reid, V.M. 2012 In: Developmental Neuropsychology. 37, 3, 2 p.
Editorial

Mu rhythm modulation during observation of an occluded grasping action in 14-month-old infants
Landt, J., Grigutsch, M., Reid, V., Striano, T. 2012
Meeting abstract

The psychology of infant colic: a review of current research
Kaley, F., Reid, V., Flynn, E. 09/2011
Scientific review

Infant ERP amplitudes change over the course of an experimental session: implications for cognitive processes and methodology
Stets, M., Reid, V.M. 08/2011 In: Brain and Development. 33, 7, p. 558-568. 11 p.
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Neural correlates of dyadic interaction during infancy
Reid, V.M., Striano, T., Iacoboni, M. 04/2011 In: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 1, 2, p. 124-130. 7 p.
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The presence or absence of older siblings and variation in infant goal-directed motor development
Reid, V., Stahl, D., Striano, T. 07/2010 In: International Journal of Behavioral Development. 34, 4, p. 325-329. 5 p.
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Looking at eye gaze processing and its neural correlates in infancy-implications for social development and autism spectrum disorder
Hoehl, S., Reid, V.M., Parise, E., Handl, A., Palumbo, L., Striano, T. 07/2009
Scientific review

The neural correlates of infant and adult goal prediction: evidence for semantic processing systems
Reid, V.M., Hoehl, S., Grigutsch, M., Groendahl, A., Parise, E., Striano, T. 05/2009 In: Developmental Psychology. 45, 3, p. 620-629. 10 p.
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Research methodology and social cognition
Reid, V., Geangu, E. 2009 In: Social cognition. Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell p. 17-34. 18 p. ISBN: 9781405162173.
Chapter

Direct eye contact influences the neural processing of objects in 5-month-old infants
Parise, E., Reid, V.M., Stets, M., Striano, T. 06/2008 In: Social Neuroscience. 3, 2, p. 141-150. 10 p.
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Human infants dissociate structural and dynamic information in biological motion: evidence from neural systems
Reid, V.M., Hoehl, S., Landt, J., Striano, T. 06/2008 In: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 3, 2, p. 161-167. 7 p.
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N400 involvement in the processing of action sequences
Reid, V.M., Striano, T. 12/03/2008 In: Neuroscience Letters. 433, 2, p. 93-97. 5 p.
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What are you looking at?: infants' neural processing of an adult's object-directed eye gaze
Hoehl, S., Reid, V., Mooney, J., Striano, T. 01/2008 In: Developmental Science. 11, 1, p. 10-16. 7 p.
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The discrimination of angry and fearful facial expressions in 7-month-old infants: an event-related potential study
Kobiella, A., Grossmann, T., Reid, V.M., Striano, T. 2008 In: Cognition and Emotion. 22, 1, p. 134-146. 13 p.
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Neural correlates of the perception of goal-directed action in infants
Reid, V.M., Csibra, G., Belsky, J., Johnson, M.H. 2007 In: Acta Psychologica. 124, 1, p. 129-138. 10 p.
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Social cognition during infancy: introduction
Reid, V., Striano, T., Koops, W. 2007 In: European Journal of Developmental Psychology. 4, 1, 1 p.
Editorial

The directed attention model of infant social cognition
Reid, V.M., Striano, T. 2007 In: European Journal of Developmental Psychology. 4, 1, p. 100-110. 11 p.
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Eye contact influences neural processing of emotional expressions in 4-month-old infants
Striano, T., Kopp, F., Grossmann, T., Reid, V.M. 2006 In: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 1, 2, p. 87-94. 8 p.
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Neural mechanisms of joint attention in infancy
Striano, T., Reid, V.M., Hoehl, S. 2006 In: European Journal of Neuroscience. 23, 10, p. 2819-2823. 5 p.
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Oral exploration and reaching toward social and non-social objects in two-, four-, and six-month-old infants
Chen, X., Reid, V.M., Striano, T. 2006 In: European Journal of Developmental Psychology. 3, 1, p. 1-12. 12 p.
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Social cognition in the first year
Striano, T., Reid, V.M. 2006
Scientific review

The perception of biological motion by infants: An event-related potential study
Reid, V.M., Hoehl, S., Striano, T. 2006 In: Neuroscience Letters. 395, 3, p. 211-214. 4 p.
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Adult gaze influences infant attention and object processing: implications for cognitive neuroscience
Reid, V.M., Striano, T. 2005 In: European Journal of Neuroscience. 21, 6, p. 1763-1766. 4 p.
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JOHNSON, M. H., MUNAKATA, Y. & GILMORE, R. O. (eds), Brain development and cognition: a reader (2nd Edition). : Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002. Pp. 544
Reid, V., Striano, T. 2005 In: Journal of Child Language. 32, 2, 4 p.
Book/Film/Article review

Eye gaze cueing facilitates neural processing of objects in 4-month-old infants
Reid, V.M., Striano, T., Kaufman, J., Johnson, M.H. 2004 In: NeuroReport. 15, 16, p. 2553-2555. 3 p.
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Maternal personality and infants' neural and visual responsivity to facial expressions of emotion
de Haan, M., Belsky, J., Reid, V., Volein, A., Johnson, M.H. 2004 In: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 45, 7, p. 1209-1218. 10 p.
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