Dr Katrina L McDonough

Lecturer in Psychology at the University of East Anglia. Research interests in action prediction and perception and visual perspective taking.

[Dr Katrina L McDonough @katmcdonough2]

Excited to share that next week I will be starting my new job as Lecturer in the School of Psychology at UEA! Sad to be leaving my amazing team in Aberdeen, especially @actpredictlab who has put up with me for all these years! But excited for my next chapter... 🤓

[UEA Psychology @UEAPsychology]

We are excited to welcome Dr Katrina McDonough as a new Lecturer to the School of Psychology, starting September 25th! 🙌

[Dr Katrina L McDonough @katmcdonough2]

This is a brilliant opportunity for a finishing PhD student or postdoc! Andrew is wonderful to work with and the project is really exciting! Please apply!!!

[Prolific @Prolific]

To celebrate our brand new look, we’re running two competitions - one for our researchers and one for our participants!

For researchers, enter now by quoting this tweet and sharing your favourite findings from a study you ran on Prolific ❤️

Prizes and details in the thread 👇

[Action Prediction Lab / Prof Patric Bach @actpredictlab]

Another lab preprint, with @EleonoraParrot1, @katmcdonough2
We show that (1) imagery can be thought of as predicted perception, (2) that it induces similar perceptual biases as other motion expectations, and (3) that imagining scenes elicits expectations how others act within it

[Joel Currie @jwgcurrie]

Do robot sounds affect human perception & prediction of robot actions? With @actpredictlab & @robo_elena our preprint https://t.co/Y2PsuhA69t shows subtle changes to sound modulates localisation responses & pushes real-time perception into the predicted future of robot actions.

[Eleonora Parrotta @EleonoraParrot1]

Imagination as predictive perception: mental imagery predictively biases perceptual judgments of observed action kinematics ✨
Check out our last preprint with @actpredictlab @katmcdonough2 👇
https://t.co/GhRcZg5Vng

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This photo is (another) example of how optical illusions mess with your mind.

First you see a picture of the Earth from space and then...

[Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon]

Prior expectations still shape activity in the sensory brain - even when the world tells us our predictions won't come true.

Pleased to see this paper just accepted at @JOCN_Journal.

w/ @emilyrthomas27 @samgilbert1 @flodlan @PeterKokNeuro & @ClarePress
https://t.co/DLOCIayvG0

[Georgios Leontidis @geleonti]

Yet another opportunity to join us for a 1+3 fully funded PhD in Aberdeen, this time on a project that revolves around deep learning @ABDNCompSci and psychology 🥳🥳 @abdnpsych @actpredictlab
https://t.co/8rqRB2oW0L

[Action Prediction Lab / Prof Patric Bach @actpredictlab]

Fully funded 1+3 PhD studentship to develop deep learning models of social/action perception, with me and @geleonti at Uni Aberdeen @aberdeenuni @abdnpsych

if interested, please get in touch with me or Georgios

please RT

https://t.co/g6K5vtcNZg

[Dr Katrina L McDonough @katmcdonough2]

@chazfirestone @actpredictlab our figures 🙈😅

[Dr Katrina L McDonough @katmcdonough2]

With thanks to @actpredictlab @RSocPublishing and original work by @MatthewHudson79 . Here is the link to the original paper: https://t.co/tn33E1Y3tO

[Dr Katrina L McDonough @katmcdonough2]

Our new paper out today in @RSocPublishing #OpenScience with @actpredictlab is a pre-registered online replication of our previous work showing that prior expectations of others' actions guide, and ultimately bias, our perception of their behaviour https://t.co/errOGN03OH

[Dr Katrina L McDonough @katmcdonough2]

Together, these results support predictive processing/Bayesian theories of social perception, therefore providing an important advance to our understanding of the underlying mechanisms of social perception.

[Dr Katrina L McDonough @katmcdonough2]

Grant successful!!! Eeeek!!! 🎉 🎉 🎉

[Dr Katrina L McDonough @katmcdonough2]

Grant submitted! 😁 🎉 @actpredictlab