James W.A. Strachan

MINDED Researcher

Italian Institute of Technology

CV

Biography

I am a MINDED Researcher on the Marie Curie COFUND Project MINDED, working at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa, Italy. I work as part of the Cognition, Motion, and Neuroscience Unit with Professor Cristina Becchio. I am currently working on understanding how teachers adjust their actions during live pedagogical interactions to effectively structure and communicate information, with a particular focus on the role of motor variability.

Before joining IIT, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Social Mind and Body lab at the Central European University Department of Cognitive Science with Professors Natalie Sebanz and Günther Knoblich. I completed my PhD at the University of York under the supervision of Professor Steve Tipper, looking at incidental learning of trust from gaze cues.

Education

PhD in Psychology, 2016

University of York
MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience, 2012

University of York
BSc in Psychology, 2009

University of York

Selected Publications

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Strachan, J.W.A., Török, G. (2020). Efficiency is Prioritised Over Fairness When Distributing Joint Actions. Acta Psychologica, 210, 103158.

Dataset Source Document Manuscript

Strachan, J.W.A., Knoblich, G., Sebanz, N. (2020). Skill and Expertise in Joint Action. In Fridland, E. & Pavese, C. (Eds). Routledge Handbook on Philosophy of Skill and Expertise.

Source Document

Strachan, J.W.A., Constable, M.D., Knoblich, G. (2020). It Goes With the Territory: Ownership Across Spatial Boundaries. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 46(8), 789-797.

PDF Dataset Source Document

Strachan, J.W.A., Guttesen, A.á V., Smith, A., Gaskell, M.G., Tipper, S.P., Cairney, S.A. (2019). Investigating the formation and consolidation of incidentally learned trust. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 46(4), 684-698.

Preprint PDF Dataset Project Source Document

Strachan, J.W.A., Sebanz, N., Knoblich, G. (2019). The role of emotion in the dyad inversion effect. PLoS ONE 14(7): e0219185.

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Current Projects

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Recent & Upcoming Talks and Posters

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A methodology for distinguishing copying and reconstruction in cultural transmission episodes

Jul 29, 2020 10:00 AM

Paper accepted for proceedings of 42nd (virtual) meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, July 29-August 1 2020.

Program Paper

Active Cultural Transmission: Exploring the role of pedagogy in transmission and learning

Jul 13, 2019 10:00 AM

Talk delivered at the 8th Joint Action Meeting (JAM VIII) at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genova, Italy, July 10-13th 2019

Program

Investigating the role of fairness in task distribution

May 23, 2019 12:00 AM

Poster presented at the Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science (DuCog), May 23-25 2019

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Contact

james.wa.strachan@gmail.com
Cognition, Motion, and Neuroscience Unit, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Enrico Melen 83, 16152 Genoa, Italy