Publications
Tucker, M., & Ellis, R. (1998). On the relations between seen objects and components of potential actions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 24(3), 830–846. https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.24.3.830
Ellis, R., & Tucker, M. (2000). Micro‐affordance: The potentiation of components of action by seen objects. British Journal of Psychology, 91(4), 451–471. https://doi.org/10.1348/000712600161934
Tucker, M., & Ellis, R. (2001). The potentiation of grasp types during visual object categorization. Visual Cognition, 8(6), 769–800. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506280042000144
Grèzes, J., Tucker, M., Armony, J., Ellis, R., & Passingham, R. E. (2003). Objects automatically potentiate action: an fMRI study of implicit processing. European Journal of Neuroscience, 17(12), 2735–2740. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02695.x
Tucker, M., & Ellis, R. (2004). Action priming by briefly presented objects. Acta Psychologica, 116(2), 185–203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2004.01.004
Symes, E., Ellis, R., & Tucker, M. (2005). Dissociating object-based and space-based affordances. Visual Cognition, 12(7), 1337–1361. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506280444000445
Derbyshire, N., Ellis, R., & Tucker, M. (2006). The potentiation of two components of the reach-to-grasp action during object categorisation in visual memory. Acta Psychologica, 122(1), 74–98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2005.10.004
Vainio, L., Ellis, R., & Tucker, M. (2006). Manual asymmetries in visually primed grasping. Experimental Brain Research, 173(3), 395–406. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-006-0378-x
Symes, E., Ellis, R., & Tucker, M. (2007). Visual object affordances: Object orientation. Acta Psychologica, 124(2), 238–255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2006.03.005
Vainio, L., Ellis, R., Tucker, M., & Symes, E. (2007). Local and global affordances and manual planning. Experimental Brain Research, 179(4), 583–594. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-006-0813-z
Vainio, L., Ellis, R., & Tucker, M. (2007). The role of visual attention in action priming. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60(2), 241–261. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470210600625149
Ellis, R., Tucker, M., Symes, E., & Vainio, L. (2007). Does selecting one visual object from several require inhibition of the actions associated with non-selected objects? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33(3), 670–691. https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.33.3.670
Vainio, L., Tucker, M., & Ellis, R. (2007). Precision and power grip priming by observed grasping. Brain and Cognition, 65(2), 195–207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2007.07.004
Symes, E., Tucker, M., Ellis, R., Vainio, L., & Ottoboni, G. (2008). Grasp preparation improves change-detection for congruent objects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 34(4), 854–871. https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.34.4.854
Vainio, L., Symes, E., Ellis, R., Tucker, M., & Ottobani, G. (2008). On the relations between action planning, object identification, and motor representations of observed actions and objects. Cognition, 108(2), 444–465. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2008.03.007
Symes, E., Tucker, M., & Ottoboni, G. (2010). Integrating action and language through biased competition. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 4, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2010.00003
Symes, E., Ottoboni, G., Tucker, M., Ellis, R., & Tessari, A. (2010). When motor attention improves selective attention: The dissociating role of saliency. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63(7), 1387–1397. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470210903380806
Hellier, E., Tucker, M., Kenny, N., Rowntree, A., & Edworthy, J. (2010). Merits of using color and shape differentiation to improve the speed and accuracy of drug strength identification on over-the-counter medicines by laypeople. Journal of Patient Safety, 6(3), 158–164. DOI: 10.1097/pts.0b013e3181eee157
Hellier, E., Edworthy, J., Newbold, L., Titchener, K., Tucker, M., & Gabe-Thomas, E. (2014). Evaluating the application of research-based guidance to the design of an emergency preparedness leaflet. Applied Ergonomics, 45(5), 1320–1329. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2013.10.002
Hellier, E., Tucker, M., & Newbold, L. (2012). The effects of label design characteristics on perceptions of genetically modified food. Journal of Risk Research, 15(5), 533–545. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2011.646288
Ellis, R., Swabey, D., Bridgeman, J., May, B., Tucker, M., & Hyne, A. (2013). Bodies and other visual objects: the dialectics of reaching toward objects. Psychological Research, 77(1), 31–39. DOI:10.1007/s00426-011-0391-y
Bach, P., Allami, B. K., Tucker, M., & Ellis, R. (2014). Planning-related motor processes underlie mental practice and imitation learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143(3), 1277–1294. DOI:10.1037/a0035604
Education
PhD Experimental Psychology, University of Plymouth
BSc Psychology & Statistics, University of Plymouth
Experience
English Editor for ESL Researchers Since 2021
Program Lead MSc Psychological Research Methods | University of Plymouth | 2010–2012
Lecturer & Research Fellow | University of Plymouth | 1998–2017