Dr Matt Fysh

Research Associate

Matt is a postdoctoral research associate on a project that studies autism and physical health, and which aims to investigate why certain health conditions are more common in autistic people compared to non-autistic people.

Prior to joining the ARC, Matt’s research focused on the intersection of autism and gender identity in children (2022-2025), and the identification of faces in virtual reality (2019-2022). His PhD in Cognitive Psychology, which studied facial comparison in applied settings, was awarded in 2017 at the University of Kent.

Selected Publications:

Fysh, M. C., Baker, E., Rockett, J., Allen, J., McCall, C., Burton, A. M., & Bindemann, M. (2024). Queues, crowds, and angry mobs: Face identification under distraction in a virtual airport. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77, 1169-1178.

Trifonova, I. V., McCall, C., Fysh, M. C., Bindemann, M., & Burton, A. M. (2024). First impressions from faces in dynamic approach–avoidance contexts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 50, 570-586.

Fysh, M. C., & Bindemann, M. (2023). Understanding face matching. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76, 862-880.

Fysh, M. C., & Ramon, M. (2022). Accurate but inefficient: Standard face identity matching tests fail to identify prosopagnosia. Neuropsychologia, 165, 108119.

Fysh, M. C., Trifonova, I. V., Allen, J., McCall, C., Burton, A. M., & Bindemann, M. (2022). Avatars with faces of real people: A construction method for scientific experiments in virtual reality. Behavior Research Methods, 54, 1461-1475.

De Lillo, M., Foley, R., Fysh, M. C., Stimson, A., Bradford, E. E., Woodrow-Hill, C., & Ferguson, H. J. (2021). Tracking developmental differences in real-world social attention across adolescence, young adulthood and older adulthood. Nature Human Behaviour, 5, 1381-1390.

Fysh, M. C. (2021). Factors limiting face matching at passport control and in police investigations. In M. Bindemann (Ed.), Forensic face matching: Research and practice (pp. 15–37). Oxford University Press.

Fysh, M. C., & Bindemann, M. (2018). The Kent Face Matching Test. British Journal of Psychology, 109(2), 219-231.

Fysh, M. C., & Bindemann, M. (2018). Human–computer interaction in face matching. Cognitive Science, 42(5), 1714-1732.

Fysh, M. C. (2018). Individual differences in the detection, matching and memory of faces. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 3:20.