Neil Harrison

Summary

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Liverpool Hope University. My research focuses on the study of visual perception and emotional influences on perception. One line of my research aims to further our understanding of how the brain processes emotional stimuli. In particular, I use event-related potentials (ERPs) to investigate how expectations and uncertainty influence emotion processing, and how emotion regulation techniques modify neural activity. Another line of research is aesthetics, where I investigate eye movements by viewers in natural settings (e.g. in a gallery), and how these are influenced by personality. I also investigate aesthetic evaluations of nature, including the effects of connectedness to nature and mindfulness on aesthetic experiences.

Neuroscience