Dr Michael Jenkins

Dr Michael Jenkins

  • Senior Lecturer
Department of Psychology

Biography

Dr. Jenkins is a Cognitive Neuroscientist and Senior Lecturer at Sunway University. After completing his Ph.D. at Birkbeck University in London, he moved to Canada as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at McMaster University. Now, he has moved again to Sunway University, where he plans to combine high-quality research and teaching.

His research interests began with a focus on attention and working memory, but now more broadly cover the field of Social Cognitive Neuroscience. Primarily, I combine EEG and behavioural measures to investigate issues ranging from attention and memory, to diversity and the sense of agency.

Academic & Professional Qualifications

  • Ph.D. Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom (2017)
  • M.Sc. Cognitive Neuroscience, University of York, United Kingdom (2013)
  • B.Sc. Psychology, Lancaster University, United Kingdom (2012)

Research Interests

  • Sense of agency
  • Joint action and shared control
  • Attention and working memory
  • EEG methods

Notable Publications

  1. Jenkins, M., & Obhi, S. S. (2022). Mistakes strengthen the temporal binding effect in the context of goal-directed actions. Experimental Brain Research, 240, 2191-2203.
  2. Jenkins, M., & Obhi, S. S. (2021) Exploring the relationship between perceived action-outcome distance and agency: evidence from temporal binding. Consciousness & Cognition, 94, 103177.
  3. Jenkins, M., Esemezie, O., Lee, V., Mensingh, M., Nagales, K., & Obhi, S. S. (2021). An investigation of “we” agency in co-operative joint actions. Psychological Research, 85, 3167-3181.
  4. Jenkins, M., & Obhi, S. S. (2020). Neurophysiological and psychological consequences of social exclusion: The effects of cueing in-group and out-group status. Cerebral Cortex Communications, 1(1), tgaa057.
  5. Jenkins, M., Grubert, A., & Eimer, M. (2018). Category-based attentional guidance can operate in parallel for multiple target objects. Biological Psychology, 135, 211-219.
  6. Jenkins, M., Grubert, A., & Eimer, M. (2018). The speed of voluntary and priority-driven shifts of attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44(1), 27-37.
  7. Jenkins, M., Grubert, A., & Eimer, M. (2017). Target objects defined by a conjunction of colour and shape can be selected independently and in parallel. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 79, 2310-2326.
  8. Jenkins, M., Grubert, A., & Eimer, M. (2016). Rapid parallel attentional selection can be controlled by shape and alphanumerical category. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 28(11), 1672-1687.