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RYAN B SCOTT |
| Lecturer in Psychology | |
| School of Psychology | |
| University of Sussex | |
| Brighton BN1 9QH | |
| UK | |
| r.b.scott@sussex.ac.uk | |
| Tel: +44 (0)1273 678304 | |
| Research Interests: | |
My primary interests are implicit learning and the transition from unconscious to conscious knowledge. I have a particular interest in the role of familiarity in implicit learning and the process by which initially unconscious behavioural biases become accompanied by conscious feelings of knowing. In addition to theoretical research on consciousness I also conduct work attempting to apply the resulting insights to practical challenges in diagnosing disorders of consciousness. These projects include the development of a method for detecting conscious awareness that is neither reliant on physical movement or language comprehension. My primary research collaborators are Zoltan Dienes, Elisabeth Norman, and Anil Seth. . |
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| Publications: | |
| Scott, R.B., Samaha, J., Chrisley, R., & Dienes, Z. (in press). Prevailing theories of consciousness are challenged by novel cross-modal associations acquired between subliminal stimuli. Cognition. | |
| Gurney, A., Lagos, A-N.L., Manning, A., & Scott, R.B. (2017). Susceptibility to unconscious influences is unaffected by a challenging inhibitory task or mental exhaustion. Consciousness and Cognition, Volume 58, Pages 111-123. | |
| Kaiser, J., Davey, C.L., Parkhouse, T., Meeres, J. Scott, R.B. (2016). Emotional facial activation induced by unconsciously perceived dynamic facial expressions. International Journal of Psychophysiology, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2016.07.504. | |
| Norman, E., Scott, R.B., Price, P.C., & Dienes, Z. (2016). The relationship between strategic control and conscious structural knowledge in artificial grammar learning, Consciousness and Cognition, 42, 229-236. | |
| Forder, L., Taylor,O., Mankin, H., Scott, R.B., & Franklin, A. (2016). Colour Terms Affect Detection of Colour and Colour-associated Objects Suppressed from Visual Awareness, Plos One, 11 (3). e0152212. ISS 1932-6203. | |
| Dienes, Z., Lush, P., Semmens-Wheeler, R., Parkinson, J., Scott, R. B., & Naish, P. (2016). Hypnosis as self-deception; Meditation as self-insight. In A. Raz and M. Lifshitz (Eds), Hypnosis and Meditation: Toward an integrative science of conscious planes. Oxford University Press. | |
| Meeten, F., Ivak, P., Dash, S.R., Knowles, S., Duka, T., Scott, R.B., Kaiser, J., Davey, G.C.L (2015). The effect of facial expressions on the evaluation of ambiguous statements. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 6 (3), 253-263. | |
| Scott, R.B., Dienes, Z., Barrett, A.B., Bor, D., & Seth, A.K. (2014). Blind Insight: Metacognitive Discrimination Despite Chance Task Performance. Psychological Science. | |
| Mealor, A., Dienes, Z., & Scott, R.B. (2014). Unconscious sources of familiarity can be strategically excluded in support of conscious task demands. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice. | |
| Rothen, N., Scott, R.B., Mealor, A.D., Coolbear, D.J., Burckhardt, V., Ward, J. (2013). Synaesthetic Experiences Enhance Unconscious Learning, Cognitive Neuroscience, DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2013.847077. | |
| Scott, R.B., Minati, L., Dienes, Z., Chritchley, H.D., & Seth, A.K. (2011). Detecting Conscious Awareness from Involuntary Autonomic Responses, Consciousness and Cognition, 20, 936-942. | |
| Dienes, Z., Scott, R. B., & Wan, L. L. (2011). The role of familiarity in implicit learning. Higham, P., & Leboe, J. (Ed.) Constructions of Remembering and Metacognition: Essays in honour of Bruce Whittlesea. Palgrave Macmillan (pp 51-62). | |
| Scott, R.B., & Dienes, Z. (2010) The metacognitive role of familiarity in artificial grammar learning: Transitions from unconscious to conscious knowledge. In A. Efklides and P. Misailidi (Eds), Trends and Prospects in Metacognition Research. Springer. | |
| Dienes, Z., Scott, R.B., & Seth, A.K (2010). Subjective measures of implicit knowledge that go beyond confidence: Reply to Overgaard et al, Consciousness and Cognition. | |
| Scott, R.B., Dienes, Z. (2010). Prior familiarity with components enhances unconscious learning of relations, Consciousness and Cognition, 19, 413-418. | |
| Scott, R.B., Dienes, Z. (2010). Knowledge applied to new domains: The unconscious succeeds where the conscious fails, Consciousness and Cognition, 19, 391-398. | |
| Scott, R.B., & Dienes, Z.(2010). Fluency does not express implicit knowledge of artificial grammars. Cognition, 114 (3), 372–388. | |
| Scott, R.B., & Dienes, Z.(2008). The conscious, The unconscious, and Familiarity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 34(5), 1264-1288. | |
| Dienes, Z. & Scott, R.B.(2005). Measuring unconscious knowledge: Distinguishing structural knowledge and judgment knowledge. Psychological Research, 69, 338-351. | |
| Conference Presentations: | |
| Scott, R.B., & Seth, K.A. (2014) Unconscious reward speeds conscious access without conscious preference. Oral presentation at the 18th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Brisbane. | |
| Scott, R.B., Samaha, J., Chrisley, R., Dienes, Z. (2014) How testing the limits of unconscious learning can assist in evaluating theories of consciuosness. Oral presentation at the 3rd Seminar on Implicit Learning, Sait Petersburg, Russia. | |
| Scott, R.B., Samaha, J., Chrisley, R., Dienes, Z. (2013) Unconscious cross-modal binding: A challenge for global workspace theory. Oral presentation at the 18th meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Budapest, Hungary. | |
| Scott, R.B., Samaha, J., Chrisley, R., Dienes, Z. (2013) Cross-Modal associations achieved without conscious perception: Implications for theories of consciousness. Oral presentation at the 2nd Seminar on Implicit Learning, Bergen, Norway. | |
| Scott, R.B., Samaha, J., Dienes, Z. (2012) Associative learning achieved without conscious perception. Oral presentation at the 1st Seminar on Implicit Learning SWPS Sopot, Poland | |
| Scott, R.B., Ivic, B., Dienes, Z., (2012) Knowing if they know: A novel bias free method for incentivising accurate metacognitive reports. Oral presentation at the 16th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Brighton | |
| Scott, R.B., Dienes, Z., Barrett, A., Seth, A.K. (2012) Higher-Order Awareness without First-Order Accuracy - Implications for Models of Metacognition. Oral presentation at the 3rd Panhellenic Conference of Cognitive Psychology, Ioannina, Greece. | |
| Scott, R.B., Dienes, Z., Barrett, A., Seth, A.K. (2011) Higher-Order Awareness without First-Order Accuracy. Oral presentation at the 17th meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, San Sebastian. | |
| Scott, R.B., Dienes, Z., Barrett, A., Seth, A.K. (2011) Higher-Order Awareness without First-Order Accuracy - Implications for Models of Metacognition. Oral presentation at the 15th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Kyoto. | |
| Scott, R.B., Minati, L., Dienes, Z., Chritchley, H.D., Seth, A.K. (2010) Is Anybody In There? Detecting Consciousness Without Language Comprehension or Behavioural Responses. Oral presentation at the Autumn meeting of the British Neuropsychological Society, London. | |
| Scott, R.B., & Dienes, Z.(2009) Knowledge Applied to New Domains: The Unconscious Succeeds Where the Conscious Fails. Oral presentation at the 16th meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Krakow. | |
| Scott, R.B., & Dienes, Z.(2009) Knowledge Applied to New Domains: The Unconscious Succeeds Where the Conscious Fails. Oral presentation at the 13th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Berlin. | |
| Scott, R.B., & Dienes, Z.(2009) No Role for Perceptual Fluency in the Implicit Learning of Artificial Grammars. Oral presentation at the Experimental Psychology Society, London. | |
| Scott, R.B., & Dienes, Z.(2008) Mapping the Transition from Unconscious to Conscious Knowledge. Oral presentation at the 12th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Taipei. | |
| Grants: | |
| 2009: ESRC Project Grant, "Conscious Perception in Implicit Learning and the Emergence of Conscious Knowledge". Primary author and named researcher. | |
| 2009: Meltzer Project Grant, "Can unconscious structural knowledge be used flexibily". Collaborative partner. | |
| 2004: ESRC 1+3 Studentship Award. | |
| Education: | |
| 2011 - 2013: Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, University of Sussex, UK. | |
| 2005 - 2009: DPhil Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex, UK. | |
| 2004 - 2005: MRes (Distinction) Psychological Methods, University of Sussex, UK. | |
| 2003 - 2004: MSc (Distinction) Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex, UK. | |
| 1989 - 1992: BSc (Hons) Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK. | |
| Awards: | |
| Excellence in Teaching award for outstanding undergraduate teaching, 2015. | |
| Excellence in Teaching award for outstanding undergraduate teaching, 2016. | |
