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Dr Ian Dennis | Psychology | 10 November 2006
Recent evidence indicates that when a stimulus is met repeatedly in a particular task, many of the mental processes which were initially needed to process it are by-passed. Prior encounters with the stimulus lead to the results of those processes bei ...
Dr Elizabeth Jefferies | Psychology | 31 May 2005
This research examines the hypothesis that knowledge about the sounds and meanings of familiar words contributes to phonological stability in verbal short-term memory. In immediate serial recall tasks (in which participants attempt to repeat a string ...
Dr Fraser Milton | Psychology | 01 October 2006
Categorisation is a fundamental building block of everyday cognition; it is hard to imagine how people would function effectively without it. Categorisation enables us to react to different objects in the same way and to make inferences about how nov ...
Professor Nigel Harvey | No Lead Discipline | 01 October 2009
The objectives of the uiben coordinator are:
to run a workshop for uiben award holders to facilitate cross-fertilisation of ideas and to consider how under-represented areas within the scope of the networks can be further developed;
to consult with ...
Dr Roger Giner-Sorolla | Psychology | 01 January 2005
This project examines the role of self conscious emotions of compunction (e. G. Guilt and shame) in prejudice control. of crucial importance is the distinction between guilt-prone individuals, who characteristically respond to compunction emot ...
Professor Antje S Meyer | Psychology | 15 January 2008
A central issue in current psycholinguistics is which components of the speech planning process demand cognitive processing capacity and which are automatic, ie, can run in parallel with other cognitive processes. To address this issue, experiments a ...
Dr Alex Holcombe | Psychology | 01 October 2005
Sometimes people fail to notice important things in their environment. In rare but important cases, this can be catastrophic. For example, when intruders are not noticed, crime is more common. Passers-by can fail to notice the unusual activity that a ...
Dr Chang Hong Liu | Psychology | 01 April 2006
People have little problem recognising familiar faces from different pictures. However, when faces are unfamiliar, recognition from different pictures can be challenging. A change in pose or illumination, for example, can impair recognition. This stu ...
Dr Lisa Evans | Psychology | 01 December 2005
The ability of the brain to modulate its sensitivity to incoming stimuli is known as sensory gating and this ability, paradoxically, allows the individual to attenuate irrelevant or trivial stimuli (gate-out) but also to facilitate novel or important ...
Dr Michael Le Pelley | Psychology | 05 September 2005
Recent research in human causal learning indicates that the amount of "processing power" devoted to learning about a stimulus can be influenced by prior experience of a predictive relationship between that stimulus and an outcome. The current researc ...
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