Amy Hayes

Lecturer, Acting Director of Postgraduate Research
School of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences
Bangor University
United Kingdom

Biography

Amy Hayes is a Lecturer, Acting Director of Postgraduate Research in bangor university; BSc Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA; PhD Psychology, University of Oregon, USA; BSc: Psychomotor Behaviour; Research Skills; Perception & Action; Disability, Sport, and Rehabilitation; MSc: Director of MSc Programmes; Module coordinator for Independent Study and Dissertation.

Research Intrest

Research interest Interactions between perception, action and emotion; especially how motor actions influence emotion; The role of attention in the perception of dynamic scenes; Cognitive and motor performance in Parkinson's disease patients.

List of Publications
Hayes, A. E., Paul, M. A., Beuger, B., & Tipper, S. P. (2008). Self produced and observed actions influence emotion: The roles of action fluency and eye gaze. Psychological Research, 72, 461-472.
Cannon PR, Hayes AE, Tipper SP (2009) An electromyographic investigation of the impact of task relevance on facial mimicry. Cognition & Emotion. 23(5), 918-929.
Cannon, P. R., Hayes, A. E., & Tipper, S. P. (2010). Sensorimotor fluency influences affect: Evidence from electromyography. Cognition & Emotion, 24 (4), 681_691.