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Professor Andrew Bayliss is a Professor in Psychology at the University of East Anglia's School of Psychology, where he serves as Social Cognition Research Group Lead and UEA UOA4 Psychology REF coordinator. He joined UEA in 2011 after completing his PhD at Bangor University and holding postdoctoral fellowships with the ESRC, Leverhulme Trust, and University of Queensland.
- Undergraduate Degree: Bangor University
- PhD: Bangor University
- Postdoctoral Fellowships: ESRC, Leverhulme Trust, University of Queensland
His research spans social cognition, attention-action interactions, and individual differences, with specific focus on face perception, eye gaze processing, and objects in social contexts. Utilizing methodologies including eye tracking, motion capture, EEG, and fMRI, his work examines how social cues guide attention and influence behavior. Current projects investigate gaze understanding development, interpersonal agency, and autism interventions using natural scenes.
Analysis of his recent publications reveals a strong emphasis on social attention mechanisms, particularly gaze leading phenomena, interpersonal distance effects, and neural correlates of shared attention. His work increasingly integrates autism research with social cognition paradigms while maintaining core investigations into attentional orienting and agency perception.
Bayliss actively contributes to the academic community through editorial roles at Psychological Review and Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, peer review activities, and consultancy work including the Social Neuroscience of Cinema Attendance project. He maintains international collaborations, notably with Paris Nanterre University.
As Social Cognition Research Group Lead, he oversees a dynamic team investigating the neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying social interactions. His lab employs multimodal approaches to study real-time social processing, with recent work expanding into human-robot interaction and pandemic-related social adaptations.
