Rory Allen PhD
Position held:
Research Collaborator and Visiting Tutor
Phone:
+44 (0)20 7 919 7225
Email:
r.allen (@gold.ac.uk)
Research interests
My interests include music, autism, empathy and alexithymia (i.e. being without words to describe one's own emotions). In particular, I wish to test the role of alexithymia as a mediating factor in deficits in affective empathy, the emotional impact of music in autism and typical individuals, and the possibility that a preserved sensitivity to musical responses in autism could be used to treat alexithymia in that condition through a process of associative learning.
Selected publications
Allen, Rory. 2010. Scales of ability: autism, music, and the need for flexibility in doctoral research. PsyPAG Quarterly, N/A(76), pp. 30-32. [Article]
Allen, Rory and Heaton, Pam F.. 2010. Autism, music, and the therapeutic potential of music in alexithymia. Music Perception, 27(4), pp. 251-261. ISSN 0730-7829 [Article]
Allen, Rory. 2010. A Comparative Study of the Effects of Music on Emotional State in the Normal and High-functioning Autistic Population. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London. [Thesis]
Heaton, Pam F., Allen, Rory, Williams, Kerry, Cummins, Omar and Happe, Francesca. 2010. Do social and cognitive deficits curtail musical understanding? Evidence from autism and Down syndrome. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 26(2), pp. 171-182. ISSN 0261510X [Article]
Allen, Rory and Hannent, Ian. 2009. A new power calculator. The Psychologist, 22(9), [Article]
Allen, Rory, Hill, Elisabeth L. and Heaton, Pam F.. 2009. `Hath charms to soothe . . .': An exploratory study of how high-functioning adults with ASD experience music. Autism, 13(1), pp. 21-41. ISSN 1362-3613 [Article]
Allen, Rory, Hill, Elisabeth L. and Heaton, Pam F.. 2009. The Subjective Experience of Music in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1169(1), pp. 326-331. ISSN 00778923 [Article]
Heaton, Pam F. and Allen, Rory. 2009. “With Concord of Sweet Sounds…”. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1169(1), pp. 318-325. ISSN 00778923 [Article]
Allen, Rory. 2008. Clairvoyance in cats: or eight good reasons to publish before writing up your thesis. Psychology Postgraduate Affairs Group(69), pp. 42-44. [Article]
Allen, Rory. 2008. Exact solutions to Bayesian and maximum likelihood problems in facial identification when population and error distributions are known. Forensic Science International(179), pp. 211-218. [Article]
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