The Cognitive Psychology group has interests in

• learning and memory, especially implicit learning (including computational simulations of learning), awareness of knowledge states, memory and consciousness across the lifespan, eye-witness testimony and long-term memory
• language and communication, especially the behavioural, cognitive and neuropsychological processes involved in language comprehension and production. Our speciality fields include psycholinguistics, specifically, pronoun interpretation, text comprehension, children's difficulties in text comprehension, and word recognition and cognitive neuropsychology (aphasia, dementia, head injury).
• vision, especially visual cognition and attention, face processing, perception and action, low-level vision, and computational neuroscience
• hearing, especially human auditory perception, particularly in the area of auditory grouping and scene analysis, and auditory and visual cognitive performance
• animal vocal communication and cognition, where we have particular expertise in using playback experiments to tackle questions about communication and cognitive abilities in large terrestrial mammals (elephants, red deer, lions) and non-passerine birds (gulls and owls).
• We have expertise in the use of specialised technology including acoustic playback, eye tracking, speech analysis, and brain imaging. The Clinical Sciences Imaging Centre houses a 1.5T Siemens MRI scanner and PET/CT, and is used particularly by a number of members of this group. The Human Psychophysiology Laboratory is extensively used by this group and includes EEG/ERP and TMS equipment.