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Research interests
I am a Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology at the University of Bath and an Honorary Senior Researcher at University College London. My main interest is in understanding how we combine multisensory cues (e.g., vision, audition and touch) throughout the lifespan (e.g., from childhood to adulthood) and how this process is affected by experience, expertise, sensory deprivation, and developmental disorders. My interest in multisensory research expands to social cognition and emotion, and I use a combination of methods and techniques (e.g., psychophysics, neuroimaging, neurophysiology, virtual reality) to study the underlying brain mechanisms. Another main focus of my research concern how music practice and experience can shape our behaviour and brain functions/structure and how music can be used as a viable and effective intervention. Finally, other areas of interest include spatial cognition and navigation and assistive technologies.
Research interests
- Multisensory integration
- Expertise and long-term practice effects
- Cognitive and perceptual development
- Emotion and social cognition/perception
- Auditory perception
- Visual perception and cognition
- Spatial cognition
- Developmental disorders and sensory restoration
- Biological motion
- Music
- Virtual reality
- Assistive Technologies
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Today and tomorrow: living with vision impairment as a teenager in the UK
Guide Dogs for the Blind Association
1/01/23 → 31/12/24
Project: UK charity
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Centre for the Analysis of Motion, Entertainment Research and Applications (CAMERA) - 2.0
Cosker, D., Bilzon, J., Campbell, N., Cazzola, D., Colyer, S., Lutteroth, C., McGuigan, P., O'Neill, E., Petrini, K., Proulx, M. & Yang, Y.
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
1/11/20 → 31/10/25
Project: Research council
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Can virtual reality offer an environment in which people with hoarding difficulties can meaningfully practice discarding their possessions?
Gregory, J. & Petrini, K.
31/08/18 → 29/04/20
Project: Research council
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Does Optimal Integration of Sound and Touch Develop Earlier in Blind Children?
1/04/15 → 31/05/17
Project: Research council
Research output
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Access to exercise for people with visual impairments during the Coronavirus-19 pandemic
Richardson, M., Petrini, K. & Proulx, M. J., 31 May 2023, In: British Journal of Visual Impairment. 41, 2, p. 448-463Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Investigating the influence of agent modality and expression on agent-mediated fairness behaviours
Yip, H. L. & Petrini, K., 30 Jun 2023, In: Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces. 17, 2, p. 65-77 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Multisensory Processing of Emotional Cues Predicts Intrusive Memories after Virtual Reality Trauma
Heffer, N., Dennie, E., Ashwin, C., Petrini, K. & Karl, A., 4 Apr 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Virtual Reality. 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Presence and simulator sickness predict the usability of a virtual reality attention task
Voinescu, A., Petrini, K. & Stanton Fraser, D., 24 Mar 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Virtual Reality. 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Realism and Field of View Affect Presence in VR but Not the Way You Think
Jicol, C., Clarke, C., Tor, E., Dakin, R., Lancaster, T., Chang, S. T., Petrini, K., O'Neill, E., Proulx, M. & Lutteroth, C., 19 Apr 2023, CHI 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, United States, 17 p. 399. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).Research output: Chapter or section in a book/report/conference proceeding › Chapter in a published conference proceeding
Open AccessFile1 Citation (SciVal)72 Downloads (Pure)
Datasets
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Dataset supporting the paper: Anxiety Biases Audiovisual Processing of Social Signals
Heffer, N. (Creator), Petrini, K. (Supervisor), Ashwin, C. (Supervisor), Karl, A. (Supervisor) & Jicol, C. (Project Member), University of Bath, 5 May 2021
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00897
Dataset
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Dataset supporting the paper: High trait anxiety enhances optimal integration of auditory and visual threat cues
Heffer, N. (Creator), Gradidge, M. (Data Collector), Karl, A. (Supervisor), Ashwin, C. (Supervisor) & Petrini, K. (Supervisor), University of Bath, 15 Sept 2021
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-01023
Dataset