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Cognition as Science in Historical Perspective - this work
reflects a view that history has relevance to how we do psychology
now. Many of our research interests concentrate on matters of
particular relevance to the study of cognition and range from
consideration of the impact of individuals through to the ways in
which psychologists present their work.
Visual Cognition - this research covers a range of topics
including:face recognition processes; multimodal perception; the
functional organisation of different mental representations of the
visual world; the nature and functional significance of visual
imagery; the impact of verbal recoding on visual cognition; and
visual memory for serial order. Clinical extensions of research on
visual cognition include work on autism and schizophrenia.
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Developmental Psychology
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Dr Katie Alcock, Dr Melissa Allen, Prof Gavin Bremner, Dr Kate
Cain, Prof Mark L. Howe, Dr Dina Lew, Prof Charlie Lewis, Dr Karen
Mattock, Dr Eugene Subbotsky.
Neuroscience Applications - in addition to basic research,
researchers use neuroscience techniques to study issues of clinical
Language and Literacy - this research concerns how children
relevance. These includes research on deficits of visual attention
learn to speak, read, and develop cognitive resources that underpin
and oculomotor control in Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease
language development from birth to adolescence. This work
and in Schizophrenics and their families, and the neuroendocrine
includes the study of typically developing individuals as well as
and glycaemic regulation of cognition and mood, and the role of
those who have difficulty acquiring these skills.
different nutraceuticals on cognition and mood.
Psychology
Memory - our research on memory covers a wide range of topics
Social Psychology
which include environmental influences in memory and cognitive
Dr Jackie Abell, Prof Susan Condor, Dr John Dixon, Dr Mark Levine,
development, the role of memory in language and literacy
Dr Chris Walton.
development, eye witness testimony, false memory, the
development of autobiographical memory, the relationship
A characteristic of our work is its tendency to bridge academic
between reasoning, remembering and working memory, and the
boundaries, to work at the intersection between psychology and
multivariate influences that bring an end to infantile amnesia.
allied disciplines such as linguistics, history, sociology, and human
echnology:
geography. The group’s work is also distinguished by its
Perception and Action - our focus is the development of key skills
methodological diversity, with team members using a wide variety
in infancy and early childhood conducted in our state-of-the-art
of methodological techniques, some rooted in quantitative
infancy labs. Research interests include the development of spatial
psychology and others drawing on qualitative approaches such as
orientation, cross-modal perception, executive functions, and the
discourse analysis.
acquisition of goal-directed movements in typical and atypical
development.
Our current research interests are organised around the following
topics:
Social-Cognitive Development - research in this area focuses on Science and T
the interplay between social interactions/relationships and the
Social identity - the construction of national identities; historical
child’s developing cognitive skills. Much of this work, on ‘theory of
and spatial dimensions of group identities and intergroup relations.
mind’, executive skills and moral reasoning, is experimental, while
other studies, on children’s testimony, and on developmental
Helping behaviour - prosocial behaviour; bystander intervention;
disorders, like autism, mixes experimental and intervention studies.
understanding and preventing violence in cities.
Neuroscience Research Group
Prejudice, conflict and discrimination - stereotyping and
Dr Trevor Crawford, Dr Sandra Sünram-Lea, Dr Martine Turgeon, Dr
prejudice; the contact hypothesis and prejudice reduction;
Stefan Vogt.
empowerment of people with learning difficulties.
Auditory and Sensory-Motor Neuroscience - research focuses
Historical and conceptual issues - the relationship between
on the biomechanical and neurophysiological mechanisms that
methods, concepts and epistemology in social psychology; the
underlie perceptions, and on sensory control of movement, from
historical emergence of concepts such as stress, memory, prejudice
simple actions such as eye movements, to more complex
and ‘shell shock’; the social functions of emotions.
manipulations such as guitar playing. Behavioural measures are
combined with EEG and fMRI to investigate neural responses to
stimuli.
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