Dr Helio Clemente Jose Cuve
BSc, MA, PhD
Expertise
My recent work focuses on the multimodal measurement of emotional experience, visual social attention, and non-verbal social signalling (e.g. facial expression production and perception).
Current positions
Lecturer
School of Psychological Science
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Biography
In 2018, I relocated to the University of Oxford in the UK to pursue a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology, supported by a Medical Sciences Division Studentship jointly funded by the Clarendon Fund and the Kendrew Fund at St John's College. My Ph.D. was supervised by Professor Geoffrey Bird, and it involved investigating the "Visual and Physiological Mechanisms Underlying Emotional Processing in Autism and Alexithymia."
In 2022, I was awarded the first Experimental Psychological Society Postdoctoral Fellowship, which supported my work to develop data-driven and theoretically informed models for the production and perception of dynamic, spatiotemporal social signals conveyed by face movements. This work was in collaboration with Professor Jennifer Cook at the University of Birmingham and Professor Rachael Jack at the University of Glasgow.
In 2023, I joined the University of Bristol as a lecturer.
Outside academia, I have worked extensively in sound engineering and audio/music production
Research interests
I am interested in exploring social and emotional processes, understanding how they influence human experience, behavior, and social interaction. My research encompasses both experimental and methodological work, including the development and application of data-driven and theoretically informed modeling approaches to address these questions. My recent focus has been on the multimodal measurement of emotion, visual social attention, and non-verbal social communication, with particular emphasis on understanding the role of clinical and subclinical conditions in these processes, such as Autism and Alexithymia.
There are two ongoing areas of focus in my work:
- The modelling of "degeneracy" in emotional responses, which refers to the many-to-one and one-to-many relationships between behavior, physiology, and subjective affective experience.
- The processing of non-verbal behavior in digital content, such as deepfakes.
Additionally, I am interested in potential intersections of my work in Human-Computer Interaction, robotics, immersive technologies and digital healthcare.