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School: School of Science Department: Department of Psychological Sciences Expertise: Forensic psychology; Prostitution; Sex work; Sexuality and the law; Therapy in a forensic context
School: School of Science Department: Department of Psychological Sciences Expertise: My research seeks to understand the visual perception of others; for example, how we recognise faces, and interpret facial expressions. I am interested in the operation of these perceptual mechanisms in typical observers, and how they may differ in individuals with autism and developmental prosopagnosia.
School: School of Science Department: Department of Psychological Sciences Expertise: Computational cognitive neuroscience; Cognitive control processes (especially relating to action and dual-tasking); Cognitive modelling
School: School of Science Department: Department of Psychological Sciences Expertise: Early visual cognitive development and its neural bases; Understanding of the physical and social world in infancy; High-density event-related potentials
School: School of Science Department: Department of Psychological Sciences Expertise: My research concerns the dynamic control of cognition. Areas of active research include: cognitive control; cognitive aging and cognitive epidemiology; neurofeedback training; and computational modelling.
School: School of Science Department: Department of Psychological Sciences Expertise: Attentional control and emotional vulnerability in anxiety and depression; neurocognitive pathways governing resilience in anxiety and depression, and breast cancer survivorship; improving attentional control to reduce anxiety and depression.
School: School of Science Department: Department of Psychological Sciences Expertise: Language acquisition and development; Language impairments; Auditory development; Cross-linguistic studies of aphasia; Development of expertise
School: School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy Department: Department of Psychological Sciences Expertise: Developmental and cognitive neuroscience.
School: School of Science Department: Department of Psychological Sciences Expertise: My interests lie in understanding the experiential structure of different emotions and how individuals ascribe meaning to their emotional experiences. In particular I am interested in the role of feelings in our emotional life. Current research in this area is concentrated on adult crying. Other related and ongoing research interests include living with chronic progressive illness such as Parkinson's disease and developing the relationship between phenomenological methods and neuroscience.
School: School of Science Department: Department of Psychological Sciences Expertise: Cognitive psychophysiology
School: School of Science Department: Department of Psychological Sciences Expertise: My research seeks to understand young people’s experience of mental health difficulties, emotional wellbeing and support provision. I am currently investigating early intervention for people diagnosed with bipolar disorder and adolescent girls' experience of coping with emotions.
School: School of Science Department: Department of Psychological Sciences Expertise: The main focus of my research is to empirically identify the contribution of the vestibular system to human cognition. My research extends to the space sector, investigating the role played by vestibular/gravitational signals in human behaviour.
School: School of Science Department: Department of Psychological Sciences Expertise: I am a comparative cognitive neuroscientist investigating human and animal cognition in order to gain a better understanding of both the evolution and typical development of human cognition. My current research investigates the links between motor and cognitive abilities during the evolution and development of social and communication processes. My participant populations consist of: gorillas, chimpanzees, typically developing children and children diagnosed with autism.
School: School of Science Department: Department of Psychological Sciences Expertise: The focus of my research is on determinants of psychosocial outcomes following diagnosis and treatment of cancer - mainly among patients with benign and non-benign lesions - and on the development of interventions to support patients. This includes identifying pattern of cognitive decline following cancer treatment and risk factors for cognitive change; help-seeking behaviour and symptom interpretation among people with symptoms of cancer; illness beliefs and help-seeking among under-represented groups (men, migrant populations); factors influencing return to work and supporting patients to return to work; obesity and health outcomes and the role of social networks in supporting cancer survivors and cancer-related decisions.
School: School of Science Department: Department of Psychological Sciences Expertise: Human rationality, Judgement, Decision-making and the rationality of everyday arguments; Social networks; Language.
School: School of Science Department: Department of Psychological Sciences Expertise: Developmental disorders; Visual perception and cognition in infants; Functional brain development
School: School of Science Department: Department of Psychological Sciences Expertise: Autism, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, longitudinal research on individual differences in typical and atypical development, and high-density EEG and eye tracking.
School: School of Science Department: Department of Psychological Sciences Expertise: I am interested in how infants and children learn. Specifically, I am interested in what guides attention and supports learning from infancy into early childhood.
School: School of Science Department: Department of Psychological Sciences Expertise: My research concerns the mental representation of our body and how this shapes perception. Though our own body is perhaps the most familiar of all objects in the world, recent findings have revealed that in many cases the brain appears to maintain remarkably impoverished and distorted body representations.
School: School of Science Department: Department of Psychological Sciences Expertise: Developmental psychology and connectionist modelling; Connectionist modelling; Learning in infants and children
School: School of Science Department: Department of Psychological Sciences Expertise: My research incorporates molecular genetic, transcriptomic and epigenomic approaches to investigate the genetic and environmental basis of behaviour and cognition in childhood and adolescence.
School: School of Science Department: Department of Psychological Sciences Expertise: My research interests lie in cancer screening, public understanding of cancer, and patient preferences for cancer testing and treatment. Some of my work on cancer screening has been conducted alongside research into the feasibility of introducing a nationwide screening programme for colorectal cancer using flexible sigmoidoscopy. This research has centered on understanding and promoting screening attendance, and the impact of attending screening on psychological mood states and health behaviours. I am also currently investigating the psychological impact of having colorectal cancer missed at screening using Faecal Occult Blood testing (FOBt) (the impact of 'interval cancers' on psychological adjustment to a cancer diagnosis and attitudes towards cancer screening), and have conducted research into the psychological mediators of relationships between socio-economic status and screening uptake. Additionally, I am researching factors affecting engagement with cancer information and lay understanding of how risk factors promote cancer risk. Lastly, I am researching whether a decision aid facilitates the decision process among patient offered adjuvant chemotherapy for bowel cancer and am involved in a large multi-centre trial on patients' perceptions of the acceptability of total body MRI in the staging of colon and lung cancer.
School: School of Science Department: Department of Psychological Sciences Expertise: My research concerns how people reason and construct arguments in discourse.
School: School of Science Department: Department of Psychological Sciences Expertise: Action, Action Perception, Autism, Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience.
School: School of Science Department: Department of Psychological Sciences Expertise: Emotions and hemispheric processing; Childhood anxie; Emotion; Emotional influences on processing emotional facial expressions; Attention and emotion; Automatic and strategic influences in the interpretation of ambiguity; Effects of emotion on ambiguity resolution
School: School of Science Department: Department of Psychological Sciences Expertise: Developmental psychopathology and quantitative and molecular genetics, with particular focus on autistic spectrum disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, psychotic experiences, development change and continuity, twin and family studies and genome-wide association studies.
School: School of Science Department: Department of Psychological Sciences Expertise: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience with a focus on social cognition; Autism research (cognitive); cross-cultural psychology (cognitive).
School: School of Science Department: Department of Psychological Sciences Expertise: Visual perception, Low-light vision, Visual discomfort; Visually triggered migraine and epilepsy; Colour vision; Appearance of natural and built environments.
School: School of Science Department: Department of Psychological Sciences Expertise: Interpretative phenomenological analysis; Life transitions; Application of qualitative methodologies; Health psychology
School: School of Science Department: Department of Psychological Sciences Expertise: Face and facial emotion processing, Developmental of face processing in children (5-11 years), neural correlates of face processing, face processing in atypical populations (WS, ASD), reverse correlation approaches.
School: School of Science Department: Department of Psychological Sciences Expertise: My research focuses on Visual Cognition in the context of naturalistic visual scenes. How do we attend to, perceive, encode in memory and reason about complex visual scenes? Key to my research is the observation that viewers overtly shift their attention about a scene when free to do so. This sequence of eye movements provides an index of the viewer's on-line cognitive processing of a visual scene. By using eyetracking to monitor where a person fixates and when they program saccades in combination with behavioural probes either during viewing (e.g. gaze-contingent onsets/offsets), or after viewing (e.g. recognition tests) we are able to investigate the cognitive processes occurring during scene viewing.
School: School of Science Department: Department of Psychological Sciences Expertise: Sexual identity.; Children and adolescents in nontraditional families
School: School of Science Department: Department of Psychological Sciences Expertise: Educational Neuroscience; Psychology of language; Child development; Developmental disorders; Computational modelling of the mind; Cognitive variability, including genetic and environmental influences on development.
School: School of Science Department: Department of Psychological Sciences Expertise: I am interested in the functional and structural characteristics of the human auditory and motor systems which provide the foundation for human abilities such as language and music. In particular, I am interested in rhythm, or temporal patterns in music and language. Much of my work investigates the hypothesis that shared neural foundations may underlie the processing of rhythm in music and language. Other areas of interest: biomusicology (comparative analysis of statistical patterns in human and animal music), pitch perception, and neural and cognitive development.
School: School of Science Department: Department of Psychological Sciences Expertise: Prediction, learning, perception, metacognition and agency.