Dr Tjeerd Jellema

• Social cognition

• Motor simulation

• Neural mechanisms for anticipation and prediction

• Low-level mindreading

• Implicit (non-)social learning

• Member of the Cognition and Neuroscience research group

Palumbo L, Burnett H G, Jellema T, 'Atypical emotional anticipation in high-functioning autism', Molecular Autism, 6, 47, DOI: 10.1186/s13229-015-0039-7 (2015)

Burnett H G, Panis S, Wagemans J, Jellema T, 'Impaired identification of impoverished animate but not inanimate objects in adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder', Autism Research, 8, pp 52-60, DOI: 10.1002/aur.1412 (2015)

Hudson M, Nijboer T C W, Jellema T, 'Implicit social learning in relation to autistic-like traits', Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 42, pp 2534-2545, DOI 10.1007/s10803-012-1510-3 (2012)

Jellema T, Lorteije J A M, van Rijn S, van ’t Wout M, De Haan E H F, Van Engeland H, Kemner C, 'Involuntary interpretation of social cues is compromised in Autism Spectrum Disorders', Autism Research, 2, pp 192-204, DOI: 10.1002/aur.83 (2009)

Hudson M, Liu C H, Jellema T, 'Anticipating intentional actions: The effect of eye gaze direction on the judgement of head rotation', Cognition, 112, pp 423-434, DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.06.011 (2009)

• The Social Brain and Autism

• Social Psychology and Individual Differences 2

• Final year research projects

Tjeerd welcomes applications in the area of social cognition.

Completed and current PhDs and postdocs

First supervisor only

• Sylwia Macinska, Cognition and Emotion: intertwined or distinct abilities?, funded by the University of Hull

• Eszter Somos, Exceptional autobiographical memory, funded by the University of Hull, co-supervisor: G Mazzoni

• Richard Carvey, Rapid Detection of Human Facial Attractiveness in Groups (2017), funded by the University of Hull, co-supervisor: C-H. Liu

• Manon Krol, Understanding other's actions: an EEG study combined with TMS (2017), funded by the University of Hull, now postdoc at Boston University

• Martha Del Rosario Peña Sarmiento, Mechanisms underpinning the mere exposure effect (2017), funded by Universidad de los Andes, Colombia and Hull University, co-supervisor: J E Cruz, now lecturer at Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz, Colombia

• Dan Walters, Understanding Others’ Actions: A theoretical approach (2016), funded by 80th Anniversary University of Hull, co-supervisor: S Burwood

• Joanna Wincenciak, Perception of facial trustworthiness and emotional actions (2015), funded by 80th Anniversary University of Hull, co-supervisor: N E Barraclough, now lecturer at Glasgow University

• Letizia Palumbo, Beyond face value: involuntary emotional anticipation in typical development and Asperger’s syndrome (2015), funded by 80th Anniversary University of Hull, now lecturer at Liverpool Hope University

• Hollie Burnett, (Re-)Conceptualisation in Autism Spectrum Disorders (2010), funded by AHRC-ESF, EUROCORES, now clinical psychologist at NHS Edinburgh

• Tanja Nijboer, Emotion and consciousness: implicit social learning, postdoc, funded by RUBICON-NWO, now associate professor at Utrecht University.

• Matthew Hudson, The role of Ssocial cues in the automatic attribution of intentionality (2008), funded by University of Hull, now senior researcher at the University of Turku, Finland

• Jeannette Lorteije, Real and implied motion processing (2006), funded by Helmholtz Research Institute, NL, co-supervisor: R J A Van Wezel, now assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam

• Innovative Teaching Award 2013, Hull University Union (HUU), Student-Led.

• BSc, Leiden University

• PhD, Tilburg University

External research awards

• ESRC, £238,000, 'Investigating biases in the perception of human behaviour and the function of underlying brain mechanisms using immersive virtual reality', Barraclough N E, Jellema T, Ward J (2011-2014)

• European Science Foundation (ESF), €1,095, research Visit grant to Department of Neuroscience, Parma, Italy (2010)

• British Academy, Small Research Grant, £2,500, 'Investigating short term adaptation to human behaviour', Barraclough N E, Jellema T (2008-2009)

• AHRC and European Science Foundation (ESF), EUROCORES program, €632,656, 'Unconscious boundaries of mind; research into the extended mind hypothesis', Jellema T, Wagemans J, Postma A (2007-2010)

• Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, host for M Peña Sarmiento, 'Mechanisms underpinning the forming of preferences during subliminal perception', with Cruz J (2012-2016)

• Dutch organisation for Scientific Research, NWO, Rubicon, host for T C W Nijboer, 'Emotion and Consciousness: implicit social learning' (2009-2011)

• Helmholtz Research Institute, The Netherlands, 'Real and implied motion processing', with Van Wezel R J A (2002-2006)