Publications

• 2025 and in press

Gray, K.L.H., Davis, J.P., Bunce, C., Noyes, E., & Ritchie, K.L. (2025). Training human super-recognisers' detection and discrimination of AI-generated faces. Royal Society Open Science.

Bunce, C., Tsantani, M., Press, C., Gray, K.L.H., & Cook, R. (in press). Typical percepual sensitivity to changes in interpersonal distance in developmental prosopagnosia. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 

Barzy, M., Cook, R., & Gray, K.L.H. (2025). Dyad arrangement affects perceived valence intensity. Affective Science.

Noyes, E., Moreton, R., Hancock, P., Ritchie, K.L., Castro Martinez, S., Gray, K.L.H., & Davis, J.P. (2025). A forensic facial examiner and professional team advantage for masked face identification. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 39 (4). 

Bunce, C., Press, C., Gray, K.L.H., & Cook, R. (2025). Perceptual sensitivity to changes in interpersonal distance when observing social interactions: The effects of dyad arrangement and orientation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

• 2024 

Vestner, T., Gehdu, B. K., Gray, K.L.H., & Cook, R. (2024). Autistic adults exhibit a typical search advantage for facing dyads. Autism Research, 17(12), 2572–2578.

Gehdu, B. , Press, C. , Gray, K.L.H., Cook, R. (2024). Autistic adults have insight into their relative face recognition ability. Scientific Reports, 14, 17802.

Gehdu, B. , Gray, K.L.H., Cook, R. (2024). Poor face recognition predicts social anxiety in autism: a short report. Autism, 28 (11), 2937-2942.

Bunce, C. , Gehdu, B. , Press, C. , Gray, K.L.H., Cook, R. (2024). Autistic adults exhibit typical sensitivity to changes in interpersonal distance. Autism Research, 17 (7), 1464–1474.

Ritchie, K.L. , Carragher, D. , Davis, J. , Read, K. , Jenkins, R. , Noyes, E. , Gray, K.L.H., Hancock, P. (2024). Face masks and fake masks: the effect of real and superimposed masks on face matching with super-recognisers, typical observers, and algorithms. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 9, 5.

• 2023 

Barzy, M., Morgan, R., Cook, R., & Gray, K.L.H. (2023). Are social interactions preferentially processed in real world scenes? Evidence from change blindness. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76 (10), 2293-2302.

Gehdu, B.K., Tsantani, M., Press, C., Gray, K.L.H., Cook, R. (2023). Recognition of facial expressions in autism: effects of face masks and alexithymia. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76 (12), 2854-2864.

• 2022 

Tsantani, M., Gray, K.L.H., & Cook, R. (in press). New evidence of impaired expression recognition in developmental prosopagnosia. Cortex, 154, 15-26.

Gehdu, B.K., Gray, K.L.H., & Cook, R. (2022). Impaired grouping of ambient facial images in autism. Scientific Reports, 12, 6665.

Vestner, T., Gray, K.L.H., & Cook, R. (2022). Sensitivity to orientation is not unique to social attention cueing. Scientific Reports, 12, 5059.

Tsantani, M., Podgajecka, V., Gray, K.L.H., & Cook, R. (2022). How does the presence of a surgical face mask impair the perceived intensity of facial emotions? PLoS ONE, 17(1): e0262344.

• 2021 

Vestner, T., Over, H., Gray, K.L.H., & Cook, R. (2021). Objects that direct spatial attention produce the mutual cueing effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151 (1), 161-171.

Vestner, T., Over, H., Gray, K.L.H., Tipper, S.P. & Cook, R. (2021). Searching for people: Non facing distractor pairs hinder the visual search of social scenes more than facing distractor pairs. Cognition, 214, 104737.

Noyes, E., Davis, J., Petrov, N., Gray, K.L.H., & Ritchie, K. (2021). The effect of face masks and sunglasses on identity and expression recognition from the face. Royal Society Open Science, 8, 201169.

Vestner, T., Gray, K.L.H., & Cook, R. (2021). Visual search for facing and non-facing people. The effect of actor inversion. Cognition, 208, 104550.

Bunce, C., Gray, K.L.H., & Cook, R. (2021). The perception of interpersonal distance is distorted by the Müller-Lyer illusion. Scientific Reports, 11, 494.

• 2020

Tsantani, M., Gray, K.L.H., & Cook, R. (2020). Holistic processing of facial identity in developmental prosopagnosia. Cortex, 130, 318-326. 

Gray, K.L.H., Flack, T., Yu, M. , Lygo, F., & Baker, D. (2020). Nonlinear transduction of emotional facial expression. Vision Research, 170, 1-11. 

Vestner, T., Gray, K.L.H., & Cook, R. (2020). Why are social interactions found quickly in visual search tasks?. Cognition, 200. 

Gray, K.L.H., Guillemin, Y., Cenac, Z., Gibbons, S., Vestner, T., & Cook, R. (2020). Are the facial gender and facial age variants of the composite face illusion products of a common mechanism? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 27 (1), 62-69.

Murphy, J., Gray, K.L.H., & Cook, R. (2020). Inverted faces benefit from whole-face processing. Cognition, 194.

• 2019

Marsh, J., Biotti, F., Cook, R., & Gray, K.L.H. (2019). The discrimination of facial sex in developmental prosopagnosia. Scientific Reports , 9 (1).

Brewer, R., Bird, G., Gray, K.L.H., & Cook, R. (2019). Face perception in autism spectrum disorder: modulation of holistic processing by facial emotion. Cognition, 193.

Cenac, Z., Biotti, F., Gray, K.L.H., & Cook, R. (2019). Does developmental prosopagnosia impair identification of other-ethnicity faces?. Cortex , 119, 12-19. 

Gray, K.L.H., Biotti, F., & Cook, R. (2019). Evaluating object recognition ability in developmental prosopagnosia using the Cambridge Car Memory Test. Cognitive Neuropsychology , 36 (1-2), 89-96. 

Biotti, F., Gray, K.L.H., & Cook, R. (2019). Is developmental prosopagnosia best characterised as an apperceptive or mnemonic condition? Neuropsychologia, 124, 285-298. 

• 2018

Gray, K.L.H., Haffey, A., Mihaylova, H., & Chakrabarti, B. (2018). Lack of privileged access to awareness for rewarding social scenes in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 48(10), 3311-3318.

Gray, K.L.H., & Cook, R. (2018). Should developmental prosopagnosia, developmental body agnosia, and developmental object agnosia be considered independent neurodevelopmental conditions? Cognitive Neuropsychology, 35 (1-2), 59-62.

• 2017

Biotti, F., Gray, K.L.H., & Cook, R. (2017). Impaired body perception in developmental prosopagnosia. Cortex, 93, 41-49.

Gray, K.L.H., Murphy, J., Marsh, J.E., & Cook, R. (2017). Modulation of the composite face effect by unintended emotion cues. Royal Society Open Science, 4 (4), 160867.

Gray, K.L.H., Bird, G., & Cook, R. (2017). Associations between the 20-Item Prosopagnosia Index (PI20) and objective measures of face recognition in the general population. Royal Society Open Science, 4 (3), 160923.

Gray, K.L.H., Barber, L., Murphy, J., & Cook, R. (2017). Social interaction contexts bias the perceived expressions of interactants. Emotion, 17 (4), 567-571.

Murphy, J., Gray, K.L.H., & Cook, R. (2017). The composite face effect. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24 (2), 245-261.

• 2016

Hedger, N., Gray, K.L.H., Adams, W.J., & Garner, M. (2016). Are visual threats prioritised without awareness? A critical review and meta analysis involving 3 behavioural paradigms 2696 observers. Psychological Bulletin, 142, 934-968.

• 2013

Gray, K.L.H., Adams, W.J., Hedger, N., Newton, K. E., & Garner, M. (2013). Faces and Awareness: Low-level not emotional factors determine perceptual dominance. Emotion, 13, 537-544. 

Lynch, T.R., Gray, K.L.H., Hempel, R.J., Titley, M., Chen, E.Y., & O’Mahen, H.A. (2013). Feasibility and outcomes of an adapted Dialectical Behaviour Therapy inpatient program for the treatment of adult Anorexia Nervosa. BMC Psychiatry, 13, 293.

• 2011 and earlier

Adams, W.J., Gray, K.L.H., Garner, M., & Graf, E. (2011). On the “special” status of emotional faces… Comment on Yang, Hong, & Blake (2010). Journal of Vision, 11:10, 1-4.

Adams, W.J., Gray, K.L.H., Garner, M., & Graf, E. (2010). High-level face adaptation without awareness. Psychological Science, 21, 205-210.

Gray, K.L.H., Adams, W.J., & Garner, M. (2009). The influence of anxiety on the initial selection of emotional faces presented in binocular rivalry. Cognition, 13, 105-110.