Stergios Makris

Senior Lecturer
Department of Psychology
Edge Hill University
United Kingdom

Academician Psychiatry
Biography

Dr Stergios Makris complete his BSc(Hons) in Psychology from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2005 & MSc in Cognitive Neuropsychology from Oxford Brookes University in 2006 and PhD in Psychology (Cognitive Neuroscience) from City University London in 2012 and Human Brain Anatomy from University College London in 2013 He got reward as Chartered Psychologist, British Psychological Society.

Research Intrest

Visual perception, attention and action Body and action representation Brain stimulation (TMS, rTMS, tDCS) The automatic activation of the motor system by viewing graspable objects (affordances) The neural basis of action prediction and anticipation The neural and cognitive correlates of elite sport performance

List of Publications
Hadar, A. A., Makris, S., & Yarrow, K. (2012). The truth-telling motor cortex: Response competition in M1 discloses deceptive behaviour. Biological psychology, 89(2), 495-502.
Makris, S., & Urgesi, C. (2014). Neural underpinnings of superior action prediction abilities in soccer players. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 10(3), 342-351.
Makris, S., Hadar, A. A., & Yarrow, K. (2011). Viewing objects and planning actions: on the potentiation of grasping behaviours by visual objects. Brain and Cognition, 77(2), 257-264.