Dr Viv Moore BA MSc PhD Chart. Psych. ILTM

Research interests

I was the principle investigator of an ESRC project grant with three years funding (R000239009, £130k). The focus of my research is to investigate the mechanism/s involved in learning new exemplars of information and to what extent the age and type of learning influence this process. My major concern is the development of such mechanism/s. I am currently formulating a hypothesis to account for the empirical data and seeking neurologically plausible methods of implementing the data of the age or order of acquiring information and other important variables, e.g. cumulative frequency.

Selected publications

Moore, V., Smith Spark, J. H. & Valentine, T. (submitted). Testing The Effect of Age of acquisition on pictures and the printed names of objects and people. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition (November 2005).

Moore, V., Valentine, T. & Pritchard, S. (under review). Development of unfamiliar face matching from internal and external features. Cognitive Development.

Moore, V., Smith-Spark, J. and Valentine, T., (2004). The effects of age of acquisition on perceptual object recognition. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology. 16 (3), 419-439.

Moore, V., Valentine. T. & Turner, J. (1999). Age-of-acquisition and cumulative frequency have independent effects. Cognition. 72, 305-309.

Moore, V, & Valentine, T. (1999). The effect of age of acquisition on processing famous faces and names: Exploring the locus and proposing a mechanism. Proceedings of the 21^st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society; M. Hann and S. Stoness (eds.), 416-421; Lawrence Erlbaum Ass. USA.