Lauren Marsh

Contact

• workRoom A14 School of Psychology
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• work0115 846 6538
• Lauren.Marsh@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

I completed my PhD in Social Cognition and Autism at the University of Nottingham in 2013. I then moved to the University of Surrey for a postdoctoral position in Social Neuroscience, follwed by a three year Senior Research Associate position in Developmental Psychology at the University of Bristol. I came back to the University of Nottingham in 2017 to take up a Research Fellowship.

Research Summary

I am currently interested in how we interpret the social world, using cognitive neuroscience techniques such as eye tracking and fMRI. For instance, I would like to understand how we read nonverbal… read more

Recent Publications

• LAUREN MARSH, PATRICIA KANNGIESSER and BRUCE HOOD, 2018. When and how does labour lead to love? The ontogeny and mechanisms of the IKEA effect. Cognition. 170, 245-253
• SANDRA WELTZIEN, LAUREN MARSH and BRUCE HOOD, 2018. Thinking of Me: Self-focus reduces sharing and helping in seven- to eight-year olds. PLOS One. 13(1), e0189752
• PEARSON, AMY, MARSH, LAUREN, ROPAR, DANIELLE and HAMILTON, ANTONIA, 2016. Cognitive Mechanisms underlying visual perspective taking in typical and ASC children Autism Research. 9(1), 121-130
• HOOD, BRUCE, WELTZIEN, SANDRA, MARSH, LAUREN and KANNGIESSER, PATRICIA, 2016. Picture yourself: Self-focus and the endowment effect in preschool children Cognition. 152, 70-77

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Current Research

I am currently interested in how we interpret the social world, using cognitive neuroscience techniques such as eye tracking and fMRI. For instance, I would like to understand how we read nonverbal behaviour such as actions or gestures to give us insight into others' thoughts, feelings and intentions. I am also interested in finding out how individuals with autism interpret these signals differently, and why they might struggle during social encounters.

• LAUREN MARSH, PATRICIA KANNGIESSER and BRUCE HOOD, 2018. When and how does labour lead to love? The ontogeny and mechanisms of the IKEA effect. Cognition. 170, 245-253
• SANDRA WELTZIEN, LAUREN MARSH and BRUCE HOOD, 2018. Thinking of Me: Self-focus reduces sharing and helping in seven- to eight-year olds. PLOS One. 13(1), e0189752
• PEARSON, AMY, MARSH, LAUREN, ROPAR, DANIELLE and HAMILTON, ANTONIA, 2016. Cognitive Mechanisms underlying visual perspective taking in typical and ASC children Autism Research. 9(1), 121-130
• HOOD, BRUCE, WELTZIEN, SANDRA, MARSH, LAUREN and KANNGIESSER, PATRICIA, 2016. Picture yourself: Self-focus and the endowment effect in preschool children Cognition. 152, 70-77
• MARSH, LAUREN E, BIRD, GEOFFREY and CATMUR, CAROLINE, 2016. The imitation game: Effects of social cues on ‘imitation’are domain-general in nature NeuroImage. 139, 368-375
• MARSH, LE, PEARSON, A, ROPAR, D and HAMILTON, AF DE C, 2015. Predictive gaze during observation of irrational actions in adults with autism spectrum conditions Journal of autism and developmental disorders. 45(1), 245-261
• MARSH, LAUREN E, ROPAR, DANIELLE and HAMILTON, ANTONIA F DE C, 2014. The social modulation of imitation fidelity in school-age children PloS one. 9(1), e86127
• PEARSON, AMY, MARSH, LAUREN, HAMILTON, ANTONIA and ROPAR, DANIELLE, 2014. Spatial transformations of bodies and objects in adults with autism spectrum disorder Journal of autism and developmental disorders. 44(9), 2277-2289
• PILLAI, DHANYA, SHEPPARD, ELIZABETH, ROPAR, DANIELLE, MARSH, LAUREN, PEARSON, AMY and MITCHELL, PETER, 2014. Using other minds as a window onto the world: guessing what happened from clues in behaviour Journal of autism and developmental disorders. 44(10), 2430-2439
• MARSH, LAUREN E, MULLETT, TIMOTHY L, ROPAR, DANIELLE and HAMILTON, ANTONIA F DE C, 2014. Responses to irrational actions in action observation and mentalising networks of the human brain NeuroImage. 103, 81-90
• MARSH, L, PEARSON, A, ROPAR, D and HAMILTON, A, 2013. Children with autism do not overimitate Current Biology. 23(7), R266-R268
• HAMILTON, ANTONIA and MARSH, LAUREN, 2013. Two systems for action comprehension in autism: Mirroring and mentalizing Understanding Other Minds: Perspectives from developmental social neuroscience. 380-396
• MARSH, L.E. and HAMILTON, A.F.C., 2011. Dissociation of mirroring and mentalising systems in autism Neuroimage. 56(3), 1511-1519