Research clusters
Cognitive Psychology, Neuropsychology & Cognitive Neuroscience
The large Cognitive Psychology, Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience cluster carries out research on basic processes in attention and working memory, integration across sensory modalities, memory, learning, eye-witness identification and musical cognition. Neuropsychological research with patients addresses their awareness of, and attempts at, rehabilitation. The neurofeedback research team investigates the use of this technique in therapy and “peak performance” training. This cluster has a strong neuroscientific perspective, recently consolidated by the acquisition of a superb new research suite equipped with highly specialised, state-of-the-art EEG, eye-tracking, computational modelling and psychopharmacology facilities.
Research groups falling within this research cluster can be found at:
Members
Dr. Joydeep Bhattacharya: Neuro-signal processing: EEG/MEG, Oscillations and Synchrony, Nonlinear Dynamics and chaos, Time series analysis. Cognitive Processing: Multisensory interaction, Problem solving, Insight, Music perception, Neuro-aesthetics and Creativity.
Dr. Andy Bremner: The origin and development of object knowledge and spatial representation in infancy and early childhood. The development of visual perception in early infancy. The development of learning and cognitive control.
Dr. Gianna Cocchini: Neuropsychology: Visuo-spatial disorders in particular unilateral neglect and extinction; unawareness of illness (anosognosia); attention and memory disorders in patients suffering from Alzheimer's Disease.
Dr. Dorothy Cowie: The control of action, particularly in children. How action is guided by both visual information about the external world and visual or proprioceptive information about the actor's own body.
Professor Jules Davidoff: Cognitive neuropsychology and cognitive psychology: object and face perception, object-knowledge and its relationship to object and action naming. All aspects of colour processing.
Dr. Jan de Fockert: Visual selective attention, in particular the role of control functions of the frontal cortex in distractor processing. Functional neuroimaging of selective attention.
Prof. John Gruzelier: EEG neurofeedback, particularly in relation to creativity and the performing arts; schizophrenia and personality disorders; hypnosis.
Dr. Elisabeth Hill: Cognitive aspects of neurodevelopmental disorders including executive function, social cognition and motor coordination across the lifespan. Disorders of interest include autistic spectrum disorder, developmental coordination disorder and specific language impairment.
Dr. Karina Linnell: Visual attention and perception, visual attention and action, visual attention and memory, and the role of visual objects. Visual perception, especially grouping and object constancies. Neuropsychological studies of attention and perception. Brain imaging of attention.
Prof. Jane Powell: Neuropsychology; brain injury; rehabilitation after brain injury; psychopharmacology; cognitive assessment; assessment of disability and handicap; addiction; motivation and motivational impairments.
Prof. Tim Valentine: Face recognition and eyewitness identification. Memory for proper names.
Dr. José van Velzen: Visual, tactile and auditory attention and cross-modal links between modalities. Response preparation and the interaction with perception and selective processing. Spatial processing in egocentric and allocentric space. Spatial processing in the blind.