Professor Elinor McKone
PhD
Professor and Queen Elizabeth II Fellow
ANU College of Health and Medicine
Areas of expertise
- Psychology 1701
Publications
- Dawel, A, Wright, L, Dumbleton, R et al 2019, 'All Tears Are Crocodile Tears: Impaired Perception of Emotion Authenticity in Psychopathic Traits', Personality Disorders: Theory, Research and Treatment, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 185-197.
- Lane, J, Robbins, R, Rohan, M et al. 2019, 'Caricaturing can improve facial expression recognition in low-resolution images and age-related macular degeneration', Journal of Vision, vol. 19, no. 6.
- Dawel, A, Dumbleton, R, O'Kearney, R et al 2019, 'Reduced willingness to approach genuine smilers in social anxiety explained by potential for social evaluation, not misperception of smile authenticity', Cognition and Emotion, vol. 33, no. 7, pp. 1342-1355.
- McKone, E, Wan, L, Pidcock, M et al. 2019, 'A critical period for faces: Other-race face recognition is improved by childhood but not adult social contact', Scientific Reports, vol. 9, no. 0.
- Dawel, A, Wong, T, McMorrow, J et al. 2018, 'Caricaturing as a General Method to Improve Poor Face Recognition: Evidence From Low-Resolution Images, Other-Race Faces, and Older Adults', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 256-279.
- Palermo, R, Jeffery, L, Lewandowsky, J et al 2018, 'Adaptive face coding contributes to individual differences in facial expression recognition independently of affective factors', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 503-517pp.
- Lane, J, Rohan, M, Sabeti, F et al. 2018, 'Impacts of impaired face perception on social interactions and quality of life in age-related macular degeneration: A qualitative study and new community resources', PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science), vol. 13, no. 12, pp. 31pp.
- Lane, J, Rohan, M, Sabeti, F et al. 2018, 'Improving face identity perception in age-related macular degeneration via caricaturing', Scientific Reports, vol. 8, no. 15205, pp. 1-10.
- McKone, E, Robbins, R, He, X, Barnes, N. 2018, 'Caricaturing faces to improve identity recognition in low vision simulations: How effective is current-generation automatic assignment of landmark points?', PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science), vol. 13, no. 10, pp. 1-18.
- Irons, J, Gradden, T, Zhang, H et al. 2017, 'Face identity recognition in simulated prosthetic vision is poorer than previously reported and can be improved by caricaturing', Vision Research, vol. 137, pp. 61-79pp.
- McKone, E, Wan, L, Robbins, R et al 2017, 'Diagnosing prosopagnosia in East Asian individuals: Norms for the Cambridge Face Memory Test-Chinese', Cognitive Neuropsychology, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 253-268pp.
- Wan, L, Crookes, K, Dawel, A et al 2017, 'Face-blind for other-race faces: Individual differences in other-race recognition impairments', Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, vol. 146, no. 1, pp. 102-122pp.
- Palermo, R, Rossion, B, Rhodes, G et al 2017, 'Do people have insight into their face recognition abilities?', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 70, no. 2, pp. 218-233pp.
- Davis, J, McKone, E, Zirnsak, M et al 2017, 'Social and attention-to-detail subclusters of autistic traits differentially predict looking at eyes and face identity recognition ability', British Journal of Psychology, vol. 108, no. 1, pp. 191-219pp.
- Dawel, A, Wright, L, Irons, J et al 2017, 'Perceived emotion genuineness: normative ratings for popular facial expression stimuli and the development of perceived-as-genuine and perceived-as-fake sets', Behavior Research Methods, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 1539-1562.
- Lane, J, Barnes, N, He, X et al 2016, 'Improving face recognition in age-related macular degeneration via caricaturing', 2016 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, United States of America.
- Dawel, A, Palermo, R, O'Kearney, R et al 2015, 'Fearful faces drive gaze-cueing and threat bias effects in children on the lookout for danger', Developmental Science, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 219-231.
- Dawel, A, Palermo, R, O'Kearney, R et al 2015, 'Children can discriminate the authenticity of happy but not sad or fearful facial expressions, and use an immature intensity-only strategy', Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 6, no. 462, pp. 1-16.
- Wan, L, Crookes, K, Reynolds, K et al. 2015, 'A cultural setting where the other-race effect on face recognition has no social-motivational component and derives entirely from lifetime perceptual experience', Cognition, vol. 144, pp. 91-115.
- Dawel, A, McKone, E, O'Kearney, R et al 2015, 'Elevated levels of callous unemotional traits are associated with reduced attentional cueing, with no specificity for fear or eyes', Personality Disorders: Theory, Research and Treatment, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 216-228.
- Weigelt, S, Koldewyn, K, Dilks, D et al 2014, 'Domain-specific development of face memory but not face perception', Developmental Science, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 47-58.
- Irons, J, McKone, E, Dumbleton, R et al. 2014, 'A new theoretical approach to improving face recognition in disorders of central vision: Face caricaturing', Journal of Vision, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 1-29.
- McKone, E, Jeffrey, L, Boeing, A et al 2014, 'Face identity aftereffects increase monotonically with adaptor extremity over, but not beyond, the range of natural faces', Vision Research, vol. 98, pp. 1-13.
- Palermo, R, MacKenzie, K, Davis, J et al 2013, 'New Tests to Measure Individual Differences in Matching and Labelling Facial Expressions of Emotion, and Their Association with Ability to Recognise Vocal Emotions and Facial Identity', PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science), vol. 8, no. 6, pp. e68126-e68126.
- Pond, S, Kloth, N, McKone, E et al 2013, 'Aftereffects support opponent coding of face gender', Journal of Vision, vol. 13, no. 14, pp. 1-19.
- Dawel, A, McKone, E, Irons, J et al 2013, 'Look out! Gaze-cueing is greater from fearful faces in a dangerous context for children and adults', Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, ed. Dennis M Levi, Vision Sciences Society, Florida, pp. 147pp.
- McKone, E, Aimola Davies, AM, Darke, H, Crookes, K, Wickramariyaratne, T, Zappia, S, Fiorentini, C, Favelle, S, Broughton, M, & Fernando, D 2013, 'Importance of the inverted control in measuring holistic face processing with the composite effect and part-whole effect', Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 4, no. Article 33, pp. 1-21.
- Dennett, H, McKone, E, Tavashmi, R et al 2012, 'The Cambridge Car Memory Test: A task matched in format to the Cambridge Face Memory Test, with norms, reliability, sex differences, dissociations from face memory, and expertise effects', Behavior Research Methods, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 587-605.
- Dawel, A, O'Kearney, R, McKone, E et al 2012, 'Not just fear and sadness: Meta-analytic evidence of pervasive emotion recognition deficits for facial and vocal expressions in psychopathy', Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, vol. 36, no. 10, pp. 2288 -2304.
- McKone, E, Crookes, K, Jeffery, L et al 2012, 'A critical review of the development of face recognition: Experience is less important than previously believed', Cognitive Neuropsychology, vol. 29, no. 1-2, pp. 174-212.
- Dennett, H, Edwards, M & McKone, E 2012, 'Global face distortion aftereffects tap face-specific and shape-generic processes', Journal of Vision, vol. 12, no. 11, pp. 1-20.
- McKone, E, Stokes, S, LIU, J et al 2012, 'A Robust Method of Measuring Other-Race and Other-Ethnicity Effects: The Cambridge Face Memory Test Format', PLoS ONE (Public Library of Science), vol. 7, no. 10, pp. 1-6.
- Dennett, H, McKone, E, Edwards, M et al 2012, 'Face Aftereffects Predict Individual Differences in Face Recognition Ability', Psychological Science, vol. 23, no. 11, pp. 1279-1287.
- Palermo, R, Willis, M, Rivolta, D et al 2011, 'Impaired holistic coding of facial expression and facial identity in congenital prosopagnosia', Neuropsychologia, vol. 49, no. 5, pp. 1226-1235.
- Davis, J, McKone, E, Dennett, H et al 2011, 'Individual Differences in the Ability to Recognise Facial Identity Are Associated with Social Anxiety', PLoS ONE (Public Library of Science), vol. 6, no. 12, pp. 1-7.
- Jeffery, L, Rhodes, G, McKone, E et al 2011, 'Distinguishing norm-based from exemplar-based coding of identity in children: Evidence from face identity aftereffects', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 37, no. 6, pp. 1824-1840.
- McKone, E & Robbins, R 2011, 'Are Faces Special?', in Andrew J Calder, Gillian Rhodes, Mark H Johnson & James V Haxby (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Face Perception, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 149-176pp.
- McKone, E & Robbins, R 2011, 'Are Faces Special?', in Andrew J Calder, Gillian Rhodes, Mark H Johnson & James V Haxby (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Face Perception, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 149-176pp.
- McKone, E, Hall, A, Pidcock, M et al 2011, 'Face ethnicity and measurement reliability affect face recognition performance in developmental prosopagnosia: Evidence from the Cambridge Face Memory Test - Australian', Cognitive Neuropsychology, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 109-146.
- Susilo, B, McKone, E & Edwards, M 2010, 'What shape are the neural response functions underlying opponent coding in face space? A psychophysical investigation', Vision Research, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 300-314.
- Susilo, B, McKone, E & Edwards, M 2010, 'Solving the upside-down puzzle: Why do upright and inverted face aftereffects look alike?', Journal of Vision, vol. 10, no. 13, pp. 1-1.
- Jeffery, L, McKone, E, Haynes, R et al 2010, 'Four-to-six-year-old children use norm-based coding in face-space', Journal of Vision, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 18-18.
- Brown, J, McKone, E & Ward, J 2010, 'Deficits of long-term memory in ecstasy users are related to cognitive complexity of the task', Psychopharmacology, vol. 209, no. 1, pp. 51-67.
- McKone, E & Palermo, R 2010, 'A strong role for nature in face recognition', PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 107, no. 11, pp. 4795-4796.
- McKone, E 2010, 'Face and object recognition: How do they differ?', in Veronika Coltheart (ed.), Tutorials in Visual Cognition, Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis, New York, NY, pp. 261-303.
- Susilo, B, McKone, E, Dennett, H et al. 2010, 'Face recognition impairments despite normal holistic processing and face space coding: Evidence from a case of developmental prosopagnosia', Cognitive Neuropsychology, vol. 27, no. 8, pp. 636-664.
- McKone, E, Aimola Davies, AM, et al 2010, 'Asia has the global advantage: Race and visual attention', Vision Research, vol. 50, no. 16, pp. 1540-1549.
- McKone, E & Yovel, G 2009, 'Why does picture-plane inversion sometimes dissociate perception of features and spacing in faces, and sometimes not? Toward a new theory of holistic processing', Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 778-797.
- Bowles, D, McKone, E, Dawel, A et al 2009, 'Diagnosing prosopagnosia: effects of ageing, sex, and participant-stimulus ethnic match on the Cambridge face Memory Test and Cambridge Face Perception Test', Cognitive Neuropsychology, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 423-455.
- McKone, E 2009, 'Holistic processing for faces operates over a wide range of sizes but is strongest at identification rather than conversational distances', Vision Research, vol. 49, no. 2009, pp. 268-283.
- McKone, E, Crookes, K & Kanwisher, N 2009, 'The cognitive and neural development of face recognition in humans', in Michael S. Gazzaniga (ed.), The Cognitive Neurosciences (4th ed), MIT Press, USA, pp. 467-482.
- Crookes, K & McKone, E 2009, 'Early maturity of face recognition: No childhood development of holistic processing, novel face encoding, or face-space', Cognition, vol. 111, no. 2009, pp. 219-247.
- Susilo, B, Crookes, K, McKone, E et al. 2009, 'The composite task reveals stronger holistic processing in children than adults for child faces', PLoS ONE (Public Library of Science), vol. 4, no. 7, pp. 1-7.
- McKone, E 2008, 'Configural Processing and Face Viewpoint', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 310-327.
- McKone, E, Aimola Davies, AM, & Fernando, D 2008, 'Blurry means good focus: Myopia and visual attention', Perception, vol. 37, no. 11, pp. 1765-1768.
- McKone, E & Robbins, R 2007, 'The evidence rejects the expertise hypothesis: Reply to Gauthier & Bukach', Cognition, vol. 103, pp. 331-336.
- McKone, E, Kanwisher, N & Duchaine, B 2007, 'Can generic expertise explain special processing for faces?', Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 8-15.
- Robbins, R & McKone, E 2007, 'No face-like processing for objects-of-expertise in three behavioural tasks', Cognition, vol. 103, pp. 34-79.
- Robbins, R, McKone, E & Edwards, M 2007, 'Aftereffects for Face Attributes With Different Natural Variability: Adapter Position Effects and Neural Models', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 570-592.
- Brown, J, Edwards, M, McKone, E et al 2007, 'A long-term ecstasy-related change in visual perception', Psychopharmacology, vol. 193, no. 3, pp. 437-446.
- McKone, E & Crookes, K 2007, 'Understanding the Development Origins of Primate Face Recognition: Theoretical Commentary on Martin-Malivel and Okada (2007)', Behavioral Neuroscience, vol. 121, no. 6, pp. 1437-1441.
- McKone, E, Brewer, J, MacPherson, S et al 2007, 'Familiar other-race faces show normal holistic processing and are robust to perceptual stress', Perception, vol. 36, pp. 224-248.
- McKone, E & Boyer, B 2006, 'Sensitivity of 4-year-olds to featural and second-order relational changes in face distinctiveness', Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, vol. 94, pp. 134-162.
- Murphy, K, McKone, E & Slee, J 2006, 'Absolute versus relative difference measures of priming: Which is appropriate when baseline scores change with age?', British Journal of Developmental Psychology, vol. 24, pp. 293-304.
- McKone, E & Peh, Y 2006, 'Memory conjunction errors for realistic faces are consistent with configural processing', Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 106-111.
- Martini, P, McKone, E & Nakayama, K 2006, 'Orientation tuning of human face processing estimated by contrast matching in transparency displays', Vision Research, vol. 46, pp. 2102-2109.
- McKone, E & Kanwisher, N 2005, 'Does the human brain process objects of expertise like faces? A review of the evidence', in Clifford, W.G. & Rhodes, G (ed.), From monkey brain to human brain: A fyssen foundation symposium, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachuetts, pp. 339-356.
- Rhodes, G, Robbins, R, Jaquet, E et al 2005, 'Adaptation and face perception: How aftereffects implicate norm-based coding of faces', in Clifford, W.G. & Rhodes, G (ed.), Fitting the mind to the world: Adaptation and aftereffects in high-level vision, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 213-240.
- McKone, E, Edwards, M & Aitkin, A 2005, 'Categorical and coordinate relations in faces, or Fechner's law and face space instead?', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 1181-1198.
- Aloisi, B, McKone, E & Heubeck, B 2004, 'Implicit and explicit memory performance in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder', British Journal of Developmental Psychology, vol. 22, pp. 275-292.
- McKone, E 2004, 'Isolating the Special Component of Face Recognition: Peripheral Identification and a Mooney Face', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 181-197.
- Buchholz, J & McKone, E 2004, 'Adults with Dyslexia Show Deficits on Spatial Frequency Doubling and Visual Attention Tasks', Dyslexia, vol. 10, pp. 24-43.
- McKone, E 2004, 'Distinguishing true from false memories via lexical decision as a perceptual implicit test', Australian Journal of Psychology, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 42-49.
- Robbins, R & McKone, E 2003, 'Can holistic processing be learned for inverted faces?', Cognition, vol. 88, pp. 79-107.
- Gilchrist, A & McKone, E 2003, 'Early maturity of face processing in children: Local and relational distinctiveness effects in 7-year-olds', Visual Cognition, vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 769-793.
- Murphy, K, McKone, E & Slee, J 2003, 'Dissociations between implicit and explicit memory in children: The role of strategic processing and the knowledge base', Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, vol. 84, pp. 124-165.
- McKone, E, Martini, P & Nakayama, K 2003, 'Isolating Holistic Processing in Faces (And Perhaps Objects)', in Mary A.Peterson & Gillian Rhodes (ed.), Perception of faces, objects, and scenes: analytic and holistic processes, Oxford University Press, USA, pp. 92-119.
- McKone, E & French, B 2001, 'In what sense is implicit memory episodic? The effect of reinstating environmental context', Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 806-811.
- McKone, E, Martini, P & Nakayama, K 2001, 'Categorical Perception of Face Identity in Noise Isolates Configural Processing', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 573-599.
- McKone, E 2001, 'Capacity limits in continuous old-new recognition and in short-term implicit memory', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 130-131.
- McKone, E & Dennis, C 2000, 'Short-term Implicit Memory: Visual, auditory, and cross-modality priming', Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, vol. 7, pp. 341-346.
- McKone, E & Murphy, B 2000, 'Implicit False Memory: Effects of Modality and Multiple Study Presentations on Long-Lived Semantic Priming', Journal of Memory and Language, vol. 43, pp. 89-109.
- McKone, E & Trynes, K 1999, 'Acquisition of Novel Traces in Short-term Implicit Memory: Priming for Illegal Nonwords and New Associations', Memory and Cognition, vol. 27, pp. 619 - 632.
- McKone, E & Grenfell, T 1999, 'Orientation Invariance in Naming Rotated Objects: Individual Differences and Repetition Priming', Perception and Psychophysics, vol. 61, pp. 1590-1603.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Improving human perception of low resolution face images (Primary Investigator)
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (Primary Investigator)
- Perceptual and psychosocial factors associated with individual differences in face identity and face expression processing (Primary Investigator)
- Integrating holistic processing and face-space approaches to the perception of facial identity (Primary Investigator)
- The Role of Adaptive Coding Mechanisms in the Development of Face Perception (Secondary Investigator)
