My research investigates the neural processing of emotional facial expressions using Event-related Potentials. My current focus is on threat-related expressions, and the factors that drive or influence their processing and perception.
When I am away from lab I enjoy hiking, kayaking, rock climbing, dancing, and crocheting.
Select Manuscripts
Durston, A.J. and Itier, R.J. (2025), Event-Related Potentials to Facial Expressions Are Related to Stimulus-Level Perceived Arousal and Valence. Psychophysiology, 62: e70045. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.70045
Mueller, C., Durston, A. J., & Itier, R. J. (2025). Happy and angry facial expressions are processed independently of task demands and semantic context congruency in the first stages of vision–A mass univariate ERP analysis. Brain Research, 149481. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2025.149481
Itier, R.J., & Durston, A.J. (2023). Mass-univariate analysis of scalp ERPs reveals large effects of gaze fixation location during face processing that only weakly interact with face emotional expression. Sci Rep 13, 17022 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-44355-5
Durston, A. J., & Itier, R. J. (2021). The early processing of fearful and happy facial expressions is independent of task demands–Support from mass univariate analyses. Brain research, 1765, 147505. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2021.147505
Hudson, A., Durston, A. J., McCrackin, S. D., & Itier, R. J. (2021). Emotion, gender and gaze discrimination tasks do not differentially impact the neural processing of angry or happy facial expressions—A mass univariate ERP analysis. Brain Topography, 34(6), 813-833.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10548-021-00873-x
