Dr Helio Clemente Jose Cuve
BSc, MA, DPhil
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
Senior Lecturer
School of Psychology and Neuroscience
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Biography
Then I moved to the University of Oxford in the UK to pursue a DPhil 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. There I worked with Professor Geoffrey Bird investigating Visual and Physiological Mechanisms Underlying Emotional Processing in Autism and Alexithymia.
Following my DPhil I was awarded the first Experimental Psychological Society Postdoctoral Fellowship, which supported my work to develop data-driven and theoretically informed models to study the production and perception of dynamic, spatiotemporal social signals conveyed by face movements.
I joined the University of Bristol as a lecturer in 2023.
Research interests
I am interested in exploring social and emotional processes, understanding how they influence human experience, behavior, and social interaction and the role clinical and subclinical conditions play in these processes such as in Autism and Alexithymia. I am also particualrly interested in the development of data-driven and theoretically informed models to address these questions and multimodal approaches for measurement of emotion, visual social attention, and non-verbal social communication.
There are three ongoing areas of focus in my work:
- 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.
- Social signalling and interaction with a focus on the role of non-verbal behaviour production and perception;
- Human processing of (social)deepfakes and synthetic media, and explainable detection of deepfakes
Projects and supervisions
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
01/11/2026Minimal social context decouples affective response modalities
Cortex
Spatiotemporal dynamics and substates underlie emotional signalling in facial movements
Scientific Reports
