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Nick Barraclough is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of York. He holds roles such as Neuroscience pathway leader and Psychology subject facilitator within the Natural Sciences faculty. His career includes postdoctoral research at the University of St Andrews and academic positions at the University of Hull and University of York.
Barraclough's research focuses on understanding action perception, including how humans evaluate others' actions through psychological and neural mechanisms. Key projects explore action coding, facial expression synchrony in audiences, and the impact of autism on social perception. He uses techniques like neuroimaging, computational modeling, and immersive virtual reality.
His grants include an AHRC 'Care for the Future' grant (£1.8M) and ESRC funding for virtual reality studies. Collaborators include institutions like the Max Planck Institute and University of York colleagues. He supervises PhD students in action perception and social cognition.
Barraclough's lab, the Action Perception Lab, investigates conceptual spaces of human actions and audience engagement metrics. Notable publications address four action dimensions, audience facial expression synchrony, and mirror neuron system deficits in autism.
His work bridges cognitive psychology and neuroscience, with contributions to understanding social interaction through perception and neural processing.
