Staff profile

I am involved in the study of face perception from many different perspectives. Recently, I have become interested in the perception of facial expressions. I also work on hemispheric biases in face perception, the perception of different facial attributes (e.g. age, gender, health and attractiveness) and aspects of face perception related to evolutionary psychology.

• Evolutionary psychology
• Facial expression recognition

• 2005: The 11th European Conference on Facial Expression: Organiser of the The 11th European Conference on Facial Expression in Durham 2005.
• 2002: Symposium chair “The development of emotional facial expression perception” at the BPS Developmental Section Conference, University of Sussex.:
• 2002: Invited talk: Perception of facial expressions: Burt, D. M. (2002). Perception of facial expressions: when is a face neutral? Invited talk presented to the Institute of Psychology, School of Medicine, Milan, Italy.
• 2001: Burt, D. M., Frigerio, E., Montagne, B., Murray, L. K., & Perrett, D. I. (2001). Altered perception of dynamic facial expressions of emotion in alcoholism and depression.: Invited paper presented at a colloquium organised by Prof. Jacqueline Nadel at the Hopital de La Salpêtrière, Paris on behalf of the of the French Ministry of Research, Program for Cognitive Sciences.

Journal Article

• Boothroyd, L., Vukovic, J., Meins, E., & Burt, D. Children’s facial preferences across development. Manuscript submitted for publication
• Smekal, V., Burt, D., Kentridge, R., & Hausmann, M. (2022). Emotion lateralization in a graduated emotional chimeric face task: An online study. Neuropsychology, 36(5), 443-455. https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000804
• Ridley, E., Arnott, B., Riby, D., Burt, M., Hanley, M., & Leekam, S. (2022). The Quality of Everyday Eye Contact in Williams Syndrome: Insights from Cross-syndrome Comparisons. American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 127(4), 293-312. https://doi.org/10.1352/1944-7558-127.4.293
• Burt, D., & Hausmann, M. (2019). Hemispheric Asymmetries in Categorical Facial Expression Perception. Emotion, 19(4), 584-592. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000460
• Jucker, J., Thornborrow, T., Beierholm, U., Burt, D., Barton, R., Evans, E., Jamieson, M., & Boothroyd, L. (2017). Nutritional status and the influence of TV consumption on female body size ideals in populations recently exposed to the media. Scientific Reports, 7(1), Article 8438. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08653-z
• Boothroyd, L., Jucker, J., Thornborrow, T., Jamieson, M., Burt, D., Barton, R., Evans, E., & Tovée, M. (2016). Television exposure predicts body size ideals in rural Nicaragua. British Journal of Psychology, 107(4), 752-767. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12184
• Innes, R., Burt, D., Birch, Y., & Hausmann, M. (2016). A leftward bias however you look at it: revisiting the emotional chimeric face task as a tool for measuring emotion lateralization. Laterality, 21(4-6), 643-661. https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650x.2015.1117095
• Robinson, L., Gray, J., Burt, M., Ferrier, I., & Gallagher, P. (2015). Processing of Facial Emotion in Bipolar Depression and Euthymia. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 21(09), 709-721. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1355617715000909
• Martínez-Castilla, P., Burt, M., Borgatti, R., & Gagliardi, C. (2015). Facial emotion recognition in Williams syndrome and Down syndrome: A matching and developmental study. Child Neuropsychology, 21(5), 668-692. https://doi.org/10.1080/09297049.2014.945408
• Vukovic, J., Boothroyd, L., Meins, E., & Burt, D. (2015). Concurrent parent–child relationship quality is associated with an imprinting-like effect in children’s facial preferences. Evolution and Human Behavior, 36(4), 331-336. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2015.03.004
• Wiedemann, D., Burt, D., Hill, R., & Barton, R. (2015). Red clothing increases perceived dominance, aggression and anger. Biology Letters, 11(5), Article 20150166. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0166
• Boothroyd, L., Meins, E., Vukovic, J., & Burt, D. (2014). Developmental changes in children's facial preferences. Evolution and Human Behavior, 35(5), 376-383. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2014.05.002
• Sedda, A., Rivolta, D., Scarpa, P., Burt, M., Frigerio, E., Zanardi, G., Piazzini, A., Turner, K., Canevini, M., Francione, S., Lo Russo, G., & Bottini, G. (2013). Ambiguous emotion recognition in temporal lobe epilepsy: The role of expression intensity. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 13(3), 452-463. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-013-0153-y
• Stets, M., Burt, M., & Reid, V. (2013). Infants Need More Variety - Increased Data Acquisition with Reduced Participant Attrition in Infant ERP Studies. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, Article 117. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00117
• Sutherland, C. A., Oldmeadow, J. A., Santos, I. M., Towler, J., Michael Burt, D., & Young, A. W. (2013). Social inferences from faces: Ambient images generate a three-dimensional model. Cognition, 127(1), 105-118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2012.12.001
• West, J., Horning, S., Klebe, K., Foster, S., Cornwell, R., Perrett, D., Burt, D., & Davis, H. (2012). Age Effects on Emotion Recognition in Facial Displays: From 20 to 89 Years of Age. Experimental Aging Research, 38(2), 146-168. https://doi.org/10.1080/0361073x.2012.659997
• Aljuhanay, A., Milne, E., Burt, D., & Pascalis, O. (2010). Asymmetry in face processing during childhood measured with chimeric faces. Laterality, 15(4), 439-450. https://doi.org/10.1080/13576500902972823
• Lau, J., Burt, M., Leibenluft, E., Pine, D., Rijsdijk, F., Shiffrin, N., & Eley, T. (2009). Individual Differences in Children's Facial Expression Recognition Ability: The Role of Nature and Nurture. Developmental Neuropsychology, 34(1), 37-51. https://doi.org/10.1080/87565640802564424
• Gagliardi, C., Maghini, C., Germiniasi, C., Stefanoni, G., Molteni, F., Burt, D., & Turconi, A. (2008). The Effect of Frequency of Cerebral Palsy Treatment: A Matched-Pair Pilot Study. Pediatric Neurology, 39(5), 335-340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2008.07.021
• Burt, D., Kentridge, R., Good, J., Perrett, D., Tiddeman, B., & Boothroyd, L. (2007). Q-cgi: new techniques to assess variation in perception applied to facial attractiveness. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 274(1627), 2779-2784. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2007.1037
• Boothroyd, L., Jones, B., Burt, D., & Perrett, D. (2007). Partner characteristics associated with masculinity, health and maturity in male faces. Personality and Individual Differences, 43(5), 1161-1173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2007.03.008
• Gagliardi, C., Martelli, S., Burt, D. M., & Borgatti, R. (2007). Evolution of Neurologic Features in Williams Syndrome. Pediatric Neurology, 36(5), 301-306. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2007.01.001
• Little, A., Jones, B., Burt, D., & Perrett, D. (2007). Preferences for symmetry in faces change across the menstrual cycle. Biological Psychology, 76, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2007.08.003
• Little, A., Burt, D., & Perrett, D. (2006). Assortative mating for perceived facial personality traits. Personality and Individual Differences, 40(5), 973-984. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2005.09.016
• Frigerio, E., Burt, D., Gagliardi, C., Cioffi, G., Martelli, S., Perrett, D., & Borgatti, R. (2006). Is everybody always my friend? : perception of approachability in Williams syndrome. Neuropsychologia, 44(2), 254-259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.05.008
• Atkinson, A., Tipples, J., Burt, D., & Young, A. (2005). Asymmetric interference between sex and emotion in face perception. Perception & psychophysics, 67(7), 1199-1213. https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03193553
• Boothroyd, L., Jones, B., Burt, D., Cornwell, R., Little, A., Tiddeman, B., & Perrett, D. (2005). Facial masculinity is related to perceived age, but not perceived health. Evolution and Human Behavior, 26(5), 417-431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2005.01.001
• Jones, B., Perrett, D., Little, A., Boothroyd, L., Cornwell, R., Feinberg, D., Tiddeman, B., Whiten, S., Pitman, R., Hillier, S., Burt, D., Stirrat, M., Smith, M., & Moore, F. (2005). Menstrual cycle, pregnancy and oral contraceptive use alter attraction to apparent health in faces. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 272(1561), 347-354. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2004.2962
• Montagne, B., van Honk, J., Kessels, R., Frigerio, E., Burt, M., van Zandvoort, M., Perrett, D., & de Haan, E. (2005). Reduced efficiency in recognising fear in subjects scoring high on psychopathic personality characteristics. Personality and Individual Differences, 38, 5-11
• Butler, S., Gilchrist, I., Burt, D., Perrett, D., Jones, E., & Harvey, M. (2005). Are the perceptual biases found in chimeric face processing reflected in eye-movement patterns?. Neuropsychologia, 43(1), 52-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.06.005
• Cornwell, R., Boothroyd, L., Burt, D., Feinberg, D., Jones, B., Little, A., Pitman, R., Whiten, S., & Perrett, D. (2004). Concordant preferences for opposite-sex signals? Human pheromones and facial characteristics. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 271(1539), 635-640. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2003.2649
• Jones, B., Little, A., Burt, D., & Perrett, D. (2004). When facial attractiveness is only skin deep. Perception, 33, 569-576. https://doi.org/10.1068/p3463
• Kovács, G., Gulyás, B., Savic, I., Perrett, D., Cornwell, R., Little, A., Jones, B., Burt, D., Gál, V., & Vidnyánszky, Z. (2004). Smelling human sex hormone-like compounds affects face gender judgment of men. NeuroReport, 15,
• Venn, H., Gray, J., Montagne, B., Murray, L., Burt, D., Frigerio, E., Perrett, D., & Young, A. (2004). Perception of facial expressions of emotion in bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disorders, 6, 286-293. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1399-5618.2004.00121.x
• Gagliardi, C., Figerio, E., Burt, D., Cazzaniga, I., Perrett, D., & Borgatti, R. (2003). Facial expression recognition in Williams Syndrome. Neuropsychologia, 41(6), 733-738. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0028-3932%2802%2900178-1
• Burt, D., Payne, K., & Perrett, D. (2003). Perceptual judgements of others' tasting experiences: are they enjoying their food?. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 96, 445-454
• Penton-Voak, I., Little, A., Jones, B., Burt, D., Tiddeman, B., & Perrett, D. (2003). Female condition influences preferences for sexual dimorphism in faces of male Homo sapiens. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 117, 264-271
• Frigerio, E., Burt, D., Montagne, B., Murray, L., & Perrett, D. (2002). Facial affect perception in alcoholics. Psychiatry Research, 113(1), 161-171. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0165-1781%2802%2900244-5
• Perrett, D., Penton-Voak, I., Little, A., Tiddeman, B., Burt, D., Schmidt, N., Oxley, R., Kinlock, N., & Barrett, L. (2002). Facial attractiveness judgements reflect learning of parental age characteristics. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 269, 873-880
• Little, A., Burt, D., Penton-Voak, I., & Perrett, D. (2001). Self-perceived attractiveness influences human female preferences for sexual dimorphism and symmetry in male faces. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 268(1462), 39-44. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2000.1327
• Tiddeman, B., Burt, D., & Perrett, D. (2001). Computer graphics in facial perception research. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 21, 42-50
• Penton-Voak, I., Jones, B., Little, A., Baker, S., Tiddeman, B., Burt, D., & Perrett, D. (2001). Symmetry, sexual dimorphism in facial proportions and male facial attractiveness. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 268, 1617-1623
• Jones, B., Little, A., Penton-Voak, I., Tiddeman, B., Burt, D., & Perrett, D. (2001). Facial symmetry and judgements of apparent health: Support for a 'good genes' explanation of the attractiveness-symmetry relationship. Evolution and Human Behavior, 22, 417-429
• Perrett, D., Burt, D., Penton-Voak, I., Lee, K., Rowland, D., & Edwards, R. (1999). Symmetry and human facial attractiveness. Evolution and Human Behavior, 20, 295-307
• Penton-Voak, I., Perrett, D., Castles, D., Kobayashi, T., Burt, D., Murray, L., & Minamisawa, R. (1999). Menstrual cycle alters face preference. Nature, 399, 741-742. https://doi.org/10.1038/21557
• Perrett, D., Lee, K., Penton-Voak, I., Rowland, D., Yoshikawa, S., Burt, D., Henzi, S., Castles, D., & Akamatsu, S. (1998). Effects of sexual dimorphism on facial attractiveness. Nature, 394, 884-887. https://doi.org/10.1038/29772
• Burt, D., & Perrett, D. (1997). Perceptual asymmetries in judgements of facial attractiveness, age, gender, speech and expression. Neuropsychologia, 35, 685-693. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0028-3932%2896%2900111-x
• Burt, D., & Perrett, D. (1995). Perception of age in adult Caucasian male faces - computer graphic manipulation of shape and color information. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 259, 137-143