Professor Ute B Leonards

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• 2025

  Rethinking the nature vs. urban environment dichotomy: Aligning research classifications with human visual perception

  Davies, J. L., Stevanov, J. & Leonards, U., 1 Feb 2025, In: Journal of Environmental Psychology. 101, 12 p., 102507.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Exposure to Nature 100%
  • Environmental Psychology 100%
  • Psychology 100%
  • Visual Perception 100%
  1 Citation (Scopus)
• 2024

  Customisation’s impact on strengthening affective bonds and decision-making with socially assistive robots: The Power of Customisation

  Ahmed, M. S., Giuliani, M., Leonards, U. & Bremner, P., 14 Oct 2024, In: Frontiers in Robotics and AI. 11, 18 p., 1384610.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Decision Making 100%
  • Risk-Taking 100%
  • Risk-Taking Behavior 100%
  • Risk Behavior 100%
  • Decision-Making 100%

• Putting the sensory individual at the centre of architectural design

  Leonards, U. B., Davies, J. L., Ross, J. M., Talas, L. & Stevanov, J., 30 Oct 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Architectural Science Review. 1-10.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Science 100%
  • Designer 100%
  • Awareness 100%
  • Sensory experience 100%
  • Building Design 100%
• 2023

  The effect of image fractal properties and its interaction with visual discomfort on gait kinematics

  Burtan, D. A., Burn, J., Spehar, B. & Leonards, U. B., 3 Oct 2023, In: Scientific Reports. 13, 1, 10 p., 16581.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Cognitive Process 100%
  2 Citations (Scopus)
• 2021

  Avoidance of tobacco health warnings? An eye-tracking approach

  Sillero-Rejon, C., Leonards, U., Munafò , M. R., Maynard, O. M. & al., E., 4 Jan 2021, In: Addiction. 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Eye-Tracking 100%
  • Study Design 25%
  19 Citations (Scopus)

  188 Downloads (Pure)

• Nature benefits revisited: Differences in gait kinematics between nature and urban images disappear when image types are controlled for likeability

  Burtan, D., Burn, J. F. & Leonards, U., 27 Aug 2021, In: PLoS ONE. 16, 8, 16 p., e0256635.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Cognitive Process 100%
  • Exposure to Nature 100%
  • Cognitive Load 100%
  4 Citations (Scopus)

  111 Downloads (Pure)

• The nature effect in motion: visual exposure to environmental scenes impacts cognitive load and human gait kinematics

  Burtan, D. A., Joyce, K. P., Burn, J., Handy, T. C., Ho, S. & Leonards, U. B., 6 Jan 2021, In: Royal Society Open Science. 8, 1, 16 p., 201100.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

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  • Cognitive Load 100%
  • Discrimination 66%
  • Cognitive Process 66%
  • Exposure to Nature 33%
  13 Citations (Scopus)

  241 Downloads (Pure)

• Walking on Visual Illusions

  Dickson, G. M. M., Burtan, D. A., James, S., Phillips, D., Stevanov, J., Heard, P. & Leonards, U. B., 9 Mar 2021, In: i-Perception. 12, 1, 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

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  • Visual Illusion 100%
  • Illusion 100%
  • Vision Science 100%
  • Wellbeing 100%
  3 Citations (Scopus)

  166 Downloads (Pure)
• 2019

  Using smartphone accelerometry to assess the relationship between cognitive load and gait dynamics during outdoor walking

  Ho, S., Mohtadi, A., Daud, K., Leonards, U. & Handy, T., 28 Feb 2019, In: Scientific Reports. 9, 13 p., 3119.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

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  • Imposed Load 100%
  • Environmental Load 100%
  • Mobile Phones 100%
  25 Citations (Scopus)

  296 Downloads (Pure)
• 2018

  Psychiatric framing affects positive but not negative schizotypy scores in psychology and medical students

  Mohr, C., Schofield, K., Leonards, U., Wilson, M. S. & Grimshaw, G. M., 1 Aug 2018, In: Psychiatry Research. 266, p. 85-89 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • New Zealand 28%
  • Surveys and Questionnaires 12%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

  352 Downloads (Pure)

• The Built Environment and Its Patterns: a View From the Vision Sciences

  Wilkins, A. J., Penacchio, O. & Leonards, U., 22 Nov 2018, In: Journal of Sustainable Design and Applied Research in Innovative Engineering of the Built Environment. 6, 1, 9 p., 5.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Behavior (Neuroscience) 100%
  • Adverse Effect 100%
  • Vision Science 100%
  • Visual Environment 100%
  • Visual Pattern 100%
  357 Downloads (Pure)
• 2017

  A method for detecting characteristic patterns in social interactions with an application to handover interactions

  Bode, N., Sutton, A., Lacey, L., Fennell, J. & Leonards, U., Jan 2017, In: Royal Society Open Science. 4, 16 p., 160694.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • And-States 100%
  • Behavioral Biology 100%
  • Interaction Task 100%
  • Frequent Patterns 100%
  • Data Mining 100%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

  532 Downloads (Pure)

• Neural mechanisms underlying visual attention to healthwarnings on branded and plain cigarette packs

  Maynard, O. M., Brooks, J. C. W., Munafò, M. R. & Leonards, U., Apr 2017, In: Addiction. 112, 4, p. 662-672 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Nucleus Accumbens 100%
  • Amygdala 100%
  • Eye-Tracking 100%
  • Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging 50%
  • Visual Cortex 50%
  17 Citations (Scopus)

  408 Downloads (Pure)
• 2016

  Iconic Gestures for Robot Avatars, Recognition and Integration with Speech

  Bremner, P. & Leonards, U. B., 17 Feb 2016, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 7, 14 p., 183.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

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  • Robot 100%
  • Humanoid Robots 16%
  • Design Experiment 16%
  • Improving Communication 16%
  • Social Presence 16%
  36 Citations (Scopus)

  422 Downloads (Pure)
• 2015

  A computational model of human-robot spatial interactions based on a qualitative trajectory calculus

  Dondrup, C., Bellotto, N., Hanheide, M., Eder, K. I. & Leonards, U. B., 23 Mar 2015, In: Robotics. 4, p. 63-102

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Computational Modeling 100%
  • Robot 100%
  • Spatial Interaction 100%
  • Observed Behavior 100%
  • Sequential Model 22%
  22 Citations (Scopus)

• Effects of first exposure to plain cigarette packaging on smoking behaviour and attitudes: a randomised controlled study

  Maynard, O. M., Leonards, U., Attwood, A. S., Bauld, L., Hogarth, L. & Munafò, M. R., 13 Mar 2015, In: BMC Public Health. 15, 240.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

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  • Brand Name 100%
  • Cigarette Filter 100%
  20 Citations (Scopus)

  328 Downloads (Pure)

• How visual perceptual grouping influences foot placement

  Fennell, J., Goodwin, C., Burn, J. & Leonards, U., Jul 2015, In: Royal Society Open Science. 2, 7, p. 1-12 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

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  • Placement 100%
  • Perceptual grouping 100%
  • Locomotion 100%
  • Distractors 60%
  • Regular 40%
  4 Citations (Scopus)

  437 Downloads (Pure)

• Selection in spatial working memory is independent of perceptual selective attention, but they interact in a shared spatial priority map

  Hedge, C., Oberauer, K. & Leonards, U., Nov 2015, In: Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. 77, 8, p. 2653-2668 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Working Memory 100%
  • Selective Attention 100%
  • Switch Cost 25%
  20 Citations (Scopus)

  396 Downloads (Pure)

• Treacherous pavements: Paving slab patterns modify intended walking directions

  Leonards, U., Fennell, J. G., Oliva, G., Drake, A. & Redmill, D. W., 11 Jun 2015, In: PLoS ONE. 10, 6, 8 p., e0130034.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Visual Informations 100%
  • Aperture Problem 100%
  • Architectural Design 100%
  • Motion Perception 100%
  • Physical Environment 50%
  8 Citations (Scopus)

  421 Downloads (Pure)
• 2014

  Abnormal Inhibition of Return in Mild Cognitive Impairment: Is it Specific to the Presence of Prodromal Dementia?

  Bayer, A., Phillips, M., Porter, G., Leonards, U., Bompas, A. & Tales, A., 2014, In: Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. 40, 1, p. 177-189

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Mild Cognitive Impairment 100%
  16 Citations (Scopus)

• Avoidance of cigarette pack health warnings among regular cigarette smokers

  Maynard, O. M., Attwood, A., O'Brien, L., Brooks, S., Hedge, C., Leonards, U. & Munafò, M. R., 15 Jan 2014, In: Drug and Alcohol Dependence.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Eye-Tracking Technology 100%
  • Adolescence 100%
  • Cigarette Filter 100%
  • Adolescent 33%
  71 Citations (Scopus)

• Perception of own and robot engagement in human-robot interactions and their dependence on robotics knowledge

  Hall, J. R., Tritton, T., Rowe, A. C. M., Pipe, A. G., Melhuish, C. R. & Leonards, U. B., 1 Mar 2014, In: Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 62, 3, p. 392-399 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Visual Analog Scale 100%
  • Familiarity 100%
  48 Citations (Scopus)

• Plain packaging of cigarettes and smoking behavior: study protocol for a randomized controlled study

  Maynard, O. M., Leonards, U., Attwood, A. S., Bauld, L., Hogarth, L. & Munafò, M. R., 25 Jun 2014, In: Trials. 15, 1, p. 252

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Self-Report 100%
  • Sex Differences 100%
  • Cigarette Filter 100%
  • Randomization 11%
  • Gender Difference 11%
  6 Citations (Scopus)
• 2013

  Line bisection by eye and by hand reveal opposite biases

  Leonards, U., Stone, S. & Mohr, C., 1 Jun 2013, In: Experimental Brain Research.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Bisection 100%
  • Eye Fixation 100%
  9 Citations (Scopus)

• Using eye movements to explore switch costs in working memory

  Hedge, C. & Leonards, U. B., 2013, In: Journal of Vision. 13, 4, 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Working Memory 100%
  • Eye Movement 100%
  • Switch Cost 100%
  • Attention-Shift 50%
  • Priming Effect 25%
  12 Citations (Scopus)
• 2012

  Dealing with illumination in visual scenes: effects of ageing and Alzheimer's disease

  Porter, G., Leonards, U., Troscianko, T., Haworth, J., Bayer, A. & Tales, A., 24 Sept 2012, In: PLoS ONE. 7, 9, p. e45104

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

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  • Alzheimer's Disease 100%
  5 Citations (Scopus)

  525 Downloads (Pure)

• Intra-Individual Reaction Time Variability in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Precursor to Dementia?

  Tales, A., Leonards, U., Bompas, A., Snowden, R. J., Philips, M., Porter, G., Haworth, J., Wilcock, G. & Bayer, A., 2012, In: Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Mild Cognitive Impairment 100%
  • Healthy Aging 30%
  52 Citations (Scopus)

• Visual Attention to Health Warnings on Plain Tobacco Packaging in Adolescent Smokers and Non-Smokers

  Maynard, O. M., Munafò, M. R. & Leonards, U., 2012, In: Addiction.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Eye Movement 100%
  • Adolescence 100%
  • Adolescent 100%
  • Analysis of Variance 50%
  • Mixed Model 33%
  70 Citations (Scopus)
• 2011

  I trust you - hence I like the things you look at: Gaze cueing and sender trustworthiness influence object evaluation

  King, D., Rowe, A. & Leonards, U., 2011, In: Social Cognition. 29, 4, p. 476 - 485 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Attention 100%
  • Reaction Time 40%
  • Trust 20%
  30 Citations (Scopus)

• Plain packaging increases visual attention to health warnings on cigarette packs in non-smokers and weekly smokers but not daily smokers

  Munafo, M., Roberts, N., Bauld, L. & Leonards, U., 2011, In: Addiction. 106, p. 1505 - 1510 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
  109 Citations (Scopus)

• Toward a Science of Learning Games

  Howard-Jones, P., Demetriou, S., Bogacz, R., Yoo, J. H. & Leonards, U., 1 Mar 2011, In: Mind, Brain, and Education. 5, 1, p. 33 - 41 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Cognitive Neuroscience 100%
  • Educational Game 100%
  • Behavior (Neuroscience) 100%
  • Reinforcement Learning 33%
  52 Citations (Scopus)
• 2010

  Implicit voodoo: electrodermal activity reveals a susceptibility to sympathetic magic

  Hood, B., Donnelly, K., Leonards, U. & Bloom, P., Jan 2010, In: Journal of Cognition and Culture. 10, p. 391 - 399 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Electrodermal Activity 100%
  • Toddlers 50%
  21 Citations (Scopus)

• Minds, Brains and Learning Games

  Howard-Jones, P. A., Demetriou, S., Bogacz, R., Yoo, J. & Leonards, U. B., 2010, In: Brain, Mind and Education, in press. -.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Cognitive Neuroscience 100%
  • Educational Game 100%
  • Behavior (Neuroscience) 100%
  • Reinforcement Learning 33%

• New insights into feature and conjunction search: I. Evidence from pupil size, eye movements and ageing

  Porter, G., Tales, A., Troscianko, T., Wilcock, G., Haworth, J. & Leonards, U., May 2010, In: Cortex. 46, 5, p. 621 - 636 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Eye Movement 100%
  • Saccade 100%
  • Fixation Duration 60%
  • Visual Search 20%
  • Healthy Aging 20%
  31 Citations (Scopus)

• New insights into feature and conjunction search: II. Evidence from Alzheimer’s disease

  Porter, G., Leonards, U., Wilcock, G., Haworth, J., Troscianko, T. & Tales, A., May 2010, In: Cortex. 46, 5, p. 637 - 649 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Alzheimer's Disease 100%
  • Visual Search 28%
  • Discrimination 14%
  • Eye Movement 14%
  26 Citations (Scopus)

• The neural mechanisms of learning from competitors

  Howard-Jones, P. A., Bogacz, R., Jee H., Y., Leonards, U. & Demetriou, S., Nov 2010, In: NeuroImage. 53, 2, p. 790 - 799 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Striatum 100%
  • Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging 100%
  • Premotor Cortex 100%
  • Response Inhibition 100%
  • Corpus Striatum 50%
  26 Citations (Scopus)

• What makes cast shadows hard to see?

  Porter, G., Tales, A. & Leonards, U., 1 Dec 2010, In: Journal of Vision. 10, 3, p. 1 - 13 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Saccade 100%
  • Eye Movement 50%
  • Visual Search 50%
  • Perceptual Learning 50%
  9 Citations (Scopus)
• 2009

  Do we look at lights? Using mixture modelling to distinguish between low- and high-level factors in natural image viewing

  Vincent, B., Baddeley, R., Correani, A., Troscianko, T. & Leonards, U., Aug 2009, In: Visual Cognition. 17, p. 856 - 879 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
  53 Citations (Scopus)

• Flexible target representations underlie repetition priming in visual search

  McBride, J., Leonards, U. & Gilchrist, I., 2009, In: Visual Cognition. 17, p. 655 - 678 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
  9 Citations (Scopus)

• Schizotypal personality traits influence idiosyncratic initiation of saccadic face exploration

  Leonards, U. & Mohr, C., 2009, In: Vision Research. 49, p. 2404 - 2413 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
  13 Citations (Scopus)
• 2008

  Attentional bias training and cue reactivity in cigarette smokers

  Attwood, A., O'Sullivan, H., Leonards, U., Mackintosh, B. & Munafo, M., Nov 2008, In: Addiction. 103, 11, p. 1875 - 1882 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Attentional Bias 100%
  • Cue Exposure 28%
  • Clinical Utility 14%
  • Mood 14%
  • In Vivo 14%
  134 Citations (Scopus)

• Seeing, but not thinking: limiting the spread of spontaneous trait transference II

  Crawford, M., Skowronski, J., Stiff, C. & Leonards, U., May 2008, In: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 44, p. 840 - 847 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
  18 Citations (Scopus)
• 2007

  Mediaeval artists: masters in directing the observers' gaze

  Leonards, U., Baddeley, R., Gilchrist, I., Troscianko, T., Ledda, P. & Williamson, B., Jan 2007, In: Current Biology. 17, p. R8 - R9 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
  23 Citations (Scopus)

• Rightward bisection errors for letter lines: the role of semantic information

  Mohr, C. & Leonards, U., 2007, In: Neuropsychologia. 45, p. 295 - 304 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Bisection 100%
  • Attentional Bias 25%
  16 Citations (Scopus)

• Visual scan paths in first-episode schizophrenia and cannabis-induced psychosis

  Benson, P., Leonards, U., Lothian, R., St. Clair, D. & Merlo, M., Jul 2007, In: Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. 32, p. 267 - 274 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Cannabis-Induced Psychosis 100%
  • Saccade 42%
  • Behavior (Neuroscience) 14%
  • Eye Movement 14%
  • Paraphrenia 14%
  34 Citations (Scopus)
• 2006

  Luminosity - a perceptual "feature" of light-emitting objects

  Correani, A., Scott-Samuel, N. & Leonards, U., Oct 2006, In: Vision Research. 46, p. 3915 - 3925 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Luminance 100%
  • Colour 33%
  13 Citations (Scopus)
• 2005

  Cortical distinction between the neural encoding of objects that appear to glow and those that do not

  Leonards, U., Troscianko, T., Lazeyras, F. & Ibanez, V., Jun 2005, In: Cognitive Brain Research. 24, p. 173 - 176 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging 100%
  20 Citations (Scopus)

• Does the situational context influence positive and negative schizotypy scores in healthy individuals? The answer is maybe

  Mohr, C. & Leonards, U., 2005, In: Psychiatry Research. 136, p. 135 - 141 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
  18 Citations (Scopus)

• Idiosyncratic initiation of saccadic face exploration in humans

  Leonards, U. & Scott-Samuel, N., Sept 2005, In: Vision Research. 45, p. 2677 - 2684 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Saccade 100%
  • Face 100%
  • Eye Movement 60%
  • Familiarity 20%
  64 Citations (Scopus)

• Stability of the color-opponent signals under changes of illuminant in natural scenes

  Lovell, P., Tolhurst, D., Párraga, C., Baddeley, R., Leonards, U., Troscianko, J. & Troscianko, T., Oct 2005, In: Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 22, p. 2060 - 2071 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
  56 Citations (Scopus)