Associate Professor Ada Kritikos
Associate Professor
School of Psychology
+61 7 336 56408
McElwain Building (24A)
Level 4, Room 404
Level 4, Room 404
Journal Articles
Sparks, S. D. and Kritikos, A. (2024). The ownership memory self-reference effect shifts recognition criterion but not recognition sensitivity. Psychological Research, 1-17. doi: 10.1007/s00426-024-01994-1
Clarkson, Tessa, Paff, Harrison Albert, Cunningham, Sheila, Ross, Josephine, Haslam, Catherine and Kritikos, Ada (2024). EXPRESS: Mine for Life: Charting Ownership Effects in Memory from Adolescence to Old Age. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 17470218241254119. doi: 10.1177/17470218241254119
McEwan, John, Kritikos, Ada and Zeljko, Mick (2024). Involvement of the superior colliculi in crossmodal correspondences. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 86 (3), 1-11. doi: 10.3758/s13414-024-02866-x
Yu, Zhou, Moses, Eleanor, Kritikos, Ada and Pegna, Alan J. (2024). Looming Angry Faces: Preliminary Evidence of Differential Electrophysiological Dynamics for Filtered Stimuli via Low and High Spatial Frequencies. Brain Sciences, 14 (1) 98, 98. doi: 10.3390/brainsci14010098
Yu, Zhou, Kritikos, Ada and Pegna, Alan J. (2023). Up close and emotional: electrophysiological dynamics of approaching angry faces. Biological Psychology, 176 108479, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108479
Clarkson, T. R., Cunningham, S. J., Haslam, C. and Kritikos, A. (2022). Is self always prioritised? Attenuating the ownership self-reference effect in memory. Consciousness and Cognition, 106 103420, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2022.103420
Kritikos, Ada, Chandler-Mather, Ned, Sparks, Samuel and Welsh, Timothy (2022). Biological motion elicits between-person Inhibition of Return in temporal and spatial movement parameters. Acta Psychologica, 230 103747, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103747
Kritikos, A., Zeljko, M., Sparks, S. and Moodie, R. (2022). Mommie dearest: reaching to self-, mother- and experimenter-referenced shapes. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 34 (8), 1-13. doi: 10.1080/20445911.2022.2096049
Yu, Zhou, Kritikos, Ada and Pegna, Alan J. (2022). Enhanced early ERP responses to looming angry faces. Biological Psychology, 170 108308, 108308. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108308
Zeljko, Mick, Grove, Philip M. and Kritikos, Ada (2022). Implicit expectation modulates multisensory perception. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 84 (3), 915-925. doi: 10.3758/s13414-022-02460-z
Zeljko, Mick, Grove, Philip M. and Kritikos, Ada (2021). The lightness/pitch crossmodal correspondence modulates the rubin face/vase perception. Multisensory Research, 34 (7), 1-21. doi: 10.1163/22134808-bja10054
Barton, Tara, Constable, Merryn D., Sparks, Samuel and Kritikos, Ada (2021). Correction to: Self-bias effect: movement initiation to self-owned property is speeded for both approach and avoidance actions. Psychological Research, 85 (4), 1407-1407. doi: 10.1007/s00426-021-01514-5
Cao, Shuo, Wang, Yanzhang, Wang, Huili, Chen, Hongjun, Zhang, Guanghui and Kritikos, Ada (2020). A facilitatory effect of perceptual incongruity on target-source matching in pictorial metaphors of Chinese advertising: EEG evidence. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 16 (1), 1-12. doi: 10.5709/acp-0279-z
Barton, Tara, Constable, Merryn D., Sparks, Samuel and Kritikos, Ada (2020). Self-bias effect: movement initiation to self-owned property is speeded for both approach and avoidance actions. Psychological Research, 85 (4), 1391-1406. doi: 10.1007/s00426-020-01325-0
Kritikos, Ada, Lister, Jessica, Sparks, Samuel, Sofronoff, Kate, Bayliss, Andrew and Slaughter, Virginia (2020). To have and to hold: embodied ownership is established in early childhood. Experimental Brain Research, 238 (2), 355-367. doi: 10.1007/s00221-020-05726-w
Chandler-Mather, Ned, Welsh, Timothy, Sparks, Samuel and Kritikos, Ada (2019). Biological motion and animacy belief induce similar effects on involuntary shifts of attention. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 82 (3), 1099-1111. doi: 10.3758/s13414-019-01843-z
Zeljko, Mick, Kritikos, Ada and Grove, Philip M. (2019). Lightness/pitch and elevation/pitch crossmodal correspondences are low-level sensory effects. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 81 (5), 1609-1623. doi: 10.3758/s13414-019-01668-w
Sparks, Samuel, Lyons, Maxwell and Kritikos, Ada (2019). Top-down attentional factors modulate action priming in reach-to-grasp action. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72 (7), 1589-1600. doi: 10.1177/1747021818807697
Zeljko, Mick, Kritikos, Ada and Grove, Philip M. (2019). Temporal dynamics of a perceptual decision. Journal of Vision, 19 (5), 1-18. doi: 10.1167/19.5.7
Dempsey-Jones, Harriet and Kritikos, Ada (2019). Handedness modulates proprioceptive drift in the rubber hand illusion. Experimental Brain Research, 237 (2), 351-361. doi: 10.1007/s00221-018-5391-3
Wang, Huili, Yan, Xiaoli, Cao, Shuo, Li, Linxi and Kritikos, Ada (2019). Interfering ACE on comprehending embodied meaning in action-related Chinese counterfactual sentences. Language and Cognition, 11 (3), 1-20. doi: 10.1017/langcog.2019.29
Dempsey-Jones, Harriet and Kritikos, Ada (2017). Enhanced integration of multisensory body information by proximity to "habitual action space". Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43 (4), 770-782. doi: 10.1037/xhp0000338
Vicario, Carmelo M., Rafal, Robert D., Borgomaneri, Sara, Paracampo, Riccardo, Kritikos, Ada and Avenanti, Alessio (2017). Pictures of disgusting foods and disgusted facial expressions suppress the tongue motor cortex. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12 (2), 352-362. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsw129
Colman, Hayley A., Remington, Roger W. and Kritikos, Ada (2017). Handedness and graspability modify shifts of visuospatial attention to near-hand objects. PL o S One, 12 (1) e0170542, e0170542. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0170542
Sparks, S., Sidari, M., Lyons, M. and Kritikos, A. (2016). Pictures of you: dot stimuli cause motor contagion in presence of a still human form. Consciousness and Cognition, 45, 135-145. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2016.08.004
Colman, Hayley, Remington, Roger and Kritikos, Ada (2016). Grasping remaps the distribution of visuospatial attention and enhances competing action activation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70 (9), 1-17. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2016.1214974
Sparks, Samuel, Cunningham, Sheila J. and Kritikos, Ada (2016). Culture modulates implicit ownership-induced self-bias in memory. Cognition, 153, 89-98. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.05.003
Sparks, S., Douglas, T. and Kritikos, A. (2016). Verbal social primes alter motor contagion during action observation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69 (6), 1041-1048. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2015.1113304
Sparks, Samuel, Moodie, Rebecca and Kritikos, Ada (2015). Top-down control and directed attention in self-reference effects: goal-directed movements and the SAN. Cognitive Neuroscience, 7 (1-4), 1-2. doi: 10.1080/17588928.2015.1075488
Harriet, Dempsey-Jones and Ada, Kritikos (2015). Are multisensory inputs integrated automatically in body-representation?: The effect of perceptual load on visuo-proprioceptive integration. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9. doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2015.217.00201
Constable, Merryn D., Kritikos, Ada, Lipp, Ottmar V. and Bayliss, Andrew P. (2014). Object ownership and action: the influence of social context and choice on the physical manipulation of personal property. Experimental Brain Research, 232 (12), 3749-3761. doi: 10.1007/s00221-014-4063-1
Dempsey-Jones, Harriet and Kritikos, Ada (2014). Higher-order cognitive factors affect subjective but not proprioceptive aspects of self-representation in the rubber hand illusion. Consciousness and Cognition, 26 (1), 74-89. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2014.02.005
Painter, David R., Kritikos, Ada and Raymond, Jane E. (2013). Value learning modulates goal-directed actions. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67 (6), 1166-1175. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2013.848913
Constable, Merryn D., Bayliss, Andrew P., Tipper, Steven P. and Kritikos, Ada (2013). Self-generated cognitive fluency as an alternative route to preference formation. Consciousness and Cognition, 22 (1), 47-52. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2012.11.006
Vicario, Carmelo M., Kritikos, Ada, Avenanti, Alessio and Rafal, Robert (2013). Reward and punishment: investigating cortico-bulbar excitability to disclose the value of goods. Frontiers in Psychology, 4 (FEB) article 39, 39.1-39.4. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00039
Bayliss, Andrew P., Murphy, Emily, Naughtin, Claire K., Kritikos, Ada, Schilbach, Leonhard and Becker, Stefanie I. (2013). "Gaze Leading": initiating simulated joint attention influences eye movements and choice behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology-General, 142 (1), 76-92. doi: 10.1037/a0029286
Bayliss, Andrew P., Naughtin, Claire K., Lipp, Ottmar V., Kritikos, Ada and Dux, Paul E. (2012). Make a lasting impression: the neural consequences of re-encountering people who emote inappropriately. Psychophysiology, 49 (12), 1571-1578. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2012.01481.x
Ocampo, Brenda, Painter, David R. and Kritikos, Ada (2012). Event coding and motor priming: How attentional modulation may influence binding across action properties. Experimental Brain Research, 219 (1), 139-150. doi: 10.1007/s00221-012-3073-0
Kritikos, A., McTaggart, L., Painter, D. R. and Bayliss, A. P. (2012). Something in the way she moves me: Morphology and motion of observed goal-directed and pantomimed actions. Attention Perception and Psychophysics, 74 (1), 36-42. doi: 10.3758/s13414-011-0228-1
Kritikos, Ada, Dozo, Nerisa, Painter, David and Bayliss, Andrew P. (2012). Mountain high, valley low: Direction-specific effects of articulation on reaching. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65 (1), 39-54. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2011.592951
Kritikos, Ada and Bayliss, Andrew P. (2011). Brief report: Perceptual load and the autism spectrum in typically developed individuals. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 41 (11), 1573-1578. doi: 10.1007/s10803-010-1159-8
Ocampo, Brenda, Kritikos, Ada and Cunnington, Ross (2011). How frontoparietal brain regions mediate imitative and complementary actions: An FMRI study. PLoS One, 6 (10) e26945, e26945.1-e26945.8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026945
Constable, Merryn D., Kritikos, Ada and Bayliss, Andrew P. (2011). Grasping the concept of personal property. Cognition, 119 (3), 430-437. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.02.007
Bayliss, Andrew P., Bartlett, Jessica, Naughtin, Claire K. and Kritikos, Ada (2011). A direct link between gaze perception and social attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 37 (3), 634-644. doi: 10.1037/a0020559
Ocampo, Brenda and Kritikos, Ada (2011). Interpreting actions: The goal behind mirror neuron function. Brain Research Reviews, 67 (1-2), 260-267. doi: 10.1016/j.brainresrev.2011.03.001
Ocampo, Brenda and Kritikos, Ada (2009). Facilitation of responses to degraded targets by non-degraded distractors. Perception, 38 (12), 1749-1766. doi: 10.1068/p6349
Ocampo, Brenda and Kritikos, Ada (2009). Placing actions in context: motor facilitation following observation of identical and non-identical manual acts. Experimental Brain Research, 201 (4), 743-751. doi: 10.1007/s00221-009-2089-6
Hluchanic, C. and Kritikos, A. (2009). Line segments and corners of distractors are equally important in causing interference. Perception, 38 (5), 664-678. doi: 10.1068/p5916
Plitas, Areti, Tucker, Alan, Kritikos, Ada, Walters, Izabela and Bardenhagen, Fiona (2009). Comparative study of the cognitive performance of Greek Australian and Greek national elderly: Implications for neuropsychological practice. Australian Psychologist, 44 (1), 27-39. doi: 10.1080/00050060802587694
Kritikos, Ada and Brasch, Cecily (2008). Visual and tactile integration in action comprehension and execution. Brain Research, 1242, 73-86. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.04.081
Kritikos, Ada, McNeill, Jennifer and Paviis, Alexia (2008). Temporal dissociation between distractors and targets: The impact of residual distractor processing on target responses. Journal of Motor Behavior, 40 (1), 29-42. doi: 10.3200/JMBR.40.1.29-42
Kritikos, Ada and Pavlis, Alexia (2007). The impact of Degraded distractors on (Nondegraded) target identification. Experimental Brain Research, 183 (2), 159-170. doi: 10.1007/s00221-007-1028-7
Kritikos, Ada, Breen, Nora and Mattingley, Jason B. (2005). Anarchic hand syndrome: Bimanual coordination and sensitivity to irrelevant information in unimanual reaches. Cognitive Brain Research, 24 (3), 634-647. doi: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.03.015
Morris, Adam P., Kritikos, Ada, Berberovic, Nadja, Pisella, Laure, Chambers, Christopher D. and Mattingley, Jason B. (2004). Prism adaptation and spatial attention: A study of visual search in normals and patients with unilateral neglect. Cortex, 40 (4-5), 703-721. doi: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70166-7
Kritikos, Ada, Beresford, Michael and Castiello, Umberto (2002). Tactile interference in visually guided reach-to-grasp movements. Experimental Brain Research, 144 (1), 1-7. doi: 10.1007/s00221-002-1004-1
Conference Papers
Dempsey-Jones, H. and Kritikos, A. (2013). Handedness and the weighting of visual- proprioceptive information in position estimation: the effect of illusory visual position information. VSS 2013 Symposia, Naples, FL United States, 10-15 May 2013. Rockville, MD, United States: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. doi: 10.1167/13.9.877
Dempsey-Jones, Harriet and Kritikos, Ada (2012). Handedness and proprioceptive position estimation: are left handed people more accurate in self representation and is this representation resistant to manipulation by the rubber hand illusion?. ACNS-2012 Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Conference, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 29 November - 2 December 2012. Lausanne, Switzerland: Frontiers Research Foundation. doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2012.208.00138
Constable, M. D., Kritikos, A. and Bayliss, A. P. (2011). Yours or mine: Ownership in the visuomotor system. EPC '11 38th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 28-30 April 2011.
Kritikos, A., Mattingley, J. and Breen, N. (2001). Anarchic hand syndrome: bimanual coordination and sensitivity to irrelevant information in unimanual reaches. Inaugural Australian Conference for Cognitive Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, Geelong, VIC, Australia, 13-15 July 2001. Milton Park, Abingdon, United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis.
Kritikos, A., Mattingley, J. B. and Breen, N. (2001). Anarchic Hand syndrome: Bimanual coordination and sensitivity to irrelevant information in unimanual reaches. 28th Annual Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, Melbourne VIC, Australia, 20-22 April 2001. United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons.
Kritikos, A., Mattingley, J. B. and Breen, N. (2001). Anarchic Hand syndrome: Bimanual co-ordination and sensitivity to irrelevant information in unimanual reaches. 7th National Conference of the APS College of Clinical Neuropsychologists, Southgate, VIC Australia, 4-6 October 2001. United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons.