Staff research interests

• Professor Mike Oaksford: Bayesian or rational models of human reasoning and argumentation, including data selection, conditional inference, syllogistic reasoning, causal reasoning, "fallacies" of argumentation and the effect of experienced and anticipated emotion on reasoning.
• Professor Denis Mareschal: Developmental psychology and connectionist modelling, especially perceptual categorisation, object processing. Also the development of reasoning in childhood.
• Dr J Aydelott: Speech perception, psycholinguistics and aphasia; the neural bases of language; acoustic variation and lexical access in normal and language-impaired populations.
• Dr Edward D. Barker: Development of antisocial behaviours and the identification of factors (social and biological) that may underlie heterogeneity in the development of antisocial behaviours.  The evaluation of preventive interventions.
• Professor Jacqueline Barnes: Community in relation to children and families; evaluation of childhood interventions; the impact of family illness upon child development.
• Professor Jay Belsky: Early child care, parenting, family stress and effects on social and emotional development.
• Dr Belinda Brooks-Gordon: Forensic psychology. Perspectives on individual and group therapy. Therapeutic programmes in a forensic context. Sexuality, sex work, and sexual offending.
• Dr Richard Cooper: Executive processes and their interactions; Cognitive modelling, especially of executive processes, processes of action selection, and cognitive dysfunction following neural damage; Cognitive architectures; Methodology of cognitive modelling; Philosophy of Cognitive Science.
• Professor Gergely Csibra: Visual perception, visual attention and eye-movement control; high-density event-related potentials; understanding of the physical and social world in infancy.
• Dr Eddy J Davelaar: How people control their memory and attention. Research includes cognitive experimentation, taking individual differences into account, and detailed computational modeling.
• Professor Nazanin Derakhshan: Cognitive biases in anxiety; Emotional information processing in anxiety and repressive-defensiveness; Attentional control in anxiety and defensiveness. Methodologies: Electrophysiological measures (ERPs); Eye-movements.
• Dr Fred Dick: Language acquisition and development, language impairments, auditory development, cross-linguistic studies of aphasia, development of expertise. Methodologies: MRI, fMRI, lesion analysis, patient studies, timed behavioural measures.
• Dr Iroise Dumontheil: Behavioural and neuroimaging studies of social and executive functions during development (late childhood and adolescence) and in adulthood; genetic associations; training interventions.
• Dr Virginia Eatough: Emotion and emotional experience from a phenomenological psychology perspective, in particular adult crying and the role of feelings in emotion. Other related interests include the subjective dimension of chronic progressive illness such as Parkinson's disease.
• Professor Martin Eimer: Cognitive psychophysiology, using event-related brain potentials and behavioural measures to study selective attention, perceptual-motor interactions, and higher order visual processing.
• Dr Simon E. Green: Brain mechanisms of emotional processing in animals and humans; biological explanations of human psychopathology; health psychology, especially coping with chronic stress; gender differences in cognition and affect.
• Professor Ulrike Hahn: argumentation, judgment and decision-making, similarity, concepts, language acquisition

• Professor Mark Johnson: Visual perception and cognition in infants; functional brain development; developmental disorders.
• Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith: Development of language and cognition in typical and clinical populations from infancy to adulthood; genotype/phenotype correlations. Nature/Nurture debate.
• Dr Natasha Kirkham: Developmental cognitive neuroscience;  early learning mechanisms and strategies: statistical and probabilistic learning in infants and children; cognitive control, executive processes, and selective attention in children and adults.
• Dr Matthew Longo: Body representation and body image; role of body representation in perception; development and plasticity of body representations; representation of number and magnitude
• Dr Emma Meaburn: My research incorporates molecular genetic, transcriptomic and epigenomic approaches to investigate the genetic and environmental basis of behaviour and cognition in childhood and adolescence.
• Professor Edward C Melhuish: Family, pre-school and child care experience and child development. Relationship of cognitive and social development.
• Dr Anne Miles: Uptake and psychological impact of cancer screening. Public understanding of cancer and cancer risk. Cancer communication.
• Professor Hermann Müller: Mechanisms of visuo-spatial orienting, visual search and attentional selection, and the roel of temporal factors in figural grouping (temporal binding).
• Dr Clare Press: Integration of perception and action: Action control and imitation and processing of others’ actions; Methodologies: EEG, fMRI, behavioural measures.
• Professor Anne Richards: Cognition and emotion; effects of emotion on ambiguity resolution; emotional influences on processing emotional facial expressions; automatic and strategic influences in the interpretation of ambiguity; attention and emotion; emotions and hemispheric representations; childhood anxiety.
• Dr Angelica Ronald: Genetic and environmental causes underlying autistic spectrum disorders and related conditions, by combining quantitative genetic and molecular genetic approaches with methodology from cognitive psychology and developmental neuroscience.
• Professor Marty Sereno: Mapping visual, auditory, somatosensory, and motor areas in the human cortex using functional MRI and surface-based methods, relation between sensory maps and higher cognition, visual neurophysiology, natural and artificial symbol-using systems.
• Dr Alex Shepherd: Visual perception: Colour vision; low light vision; visual and attentional processing in migraine.
• Professor  Jonathan A Smith: Application of qualitative methodologies in social, health and clinical psychology; interpretative phenomenological analysis; psycho-social aspects of the new genetics; life transitions, self and identity.
• Dr Tim J Smith: Visual Cognition in static, dynamic, real-world, and mediated visual scenes. Eye movements and oculomotor control. Methodologies: eyetracking, electrophysiology, behavioural measures and cognitive modelling.
• Dr Marie L Smith: Visual information processing in networks of brain regions during high-level cognitive tasks.  I have a specific interest in face and facial emotion processing and therefore focus on the brain networks underlying these processes.
• Dr Fiona Tasker: Developmental Psychology: family processes and structure, especially post-divorce and non-traditional families; adolescence; attachment theory; sexual identity.
• Professor Michael Thomas: Language and cognitive development. Developmental disorders. Cognitive variability. Language in Williams syndrome. Bilingualism. Metaphor comprehension. Brain and language. Connectionist modelling. Use of computational modelling in theory development. Cognitive genetics.
• Professor Marius Usher: Computational models and behavioural studies of visual grouping and neural synchrony, working memory and cognitive performance, perceptual choice and response latencies, problem solving and creativity, and schizophrenic thought disorders.