The Cognitive Psychology group has interests in
Learning and memory:
Implicit learning (including computational simulations or learning), awareness of knowledge states, memory and consciousness across lifespan, eye-witness testimony and long-term memory.
Language and communication:
Psycholinguistics (pronoun interpretation, text comprehension, children's difficulties in text comprehension, and word recognition); and cognitive neuropsychology (aphasia, dementia, head injury).
Perception:
Visual cognition and attention, face processing, perception and action, perception and driving, motion perception, art and perception, synaesthesia, hearing, and computational neuroscience.
Animal vocal communication and cognition:
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).
Facilities:
We have specialist technology for eye tracking, TMS, EEG/TMS, 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.
