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Dr Ian Dennis | Psychology | 05 September 2005
This project is concerned with the facilitation in performance that occurs when stimuli are repeated during the performance of a task. suppose, for example, that people are asked to decide whether each of a series of objects is bigger than a f ...
Dr Rachael Jack | Psychology | 31 December 2012
With rapid globalisation, cross-cultural communication is integral to modern society, with mutual understanding of emotions central to successful social interaction. This research examines the complexities of cross-cultural communication. Combining e ...
Dr Evelyne Mercure | Psychology | 01 August 2010
Sign languages are natural languages that are expressed in a different sensory modality to spoken languages. For this reason, they represent a unique opportunity to explore how experience influences the development of human brain and cognition. In si ...
Dr Ian Penton-Voak | Psychology | 18 December 2006
The subjective experience of finding someone attractive presumably affects one's inclination to direct "mating effort" toward that target. The psychology of sexual attraction should have evolved to encourage adaptive allocations of mating effort. Thu ...
Professor Elizabeth Robinson | Psychology | 22 January 2007
In recent research robinson and colleagues identified a difference between children's responses to uncertainty depending on the point in time at which the response is made. when an imaginary pet was going to occupy one of two boxes, but it was ...
Professor Jeffrey Bowers | Psychology | 05 September 2005
This study assesses the consequences of early, but temporary, exposure to a language on the perception of that language in adulthood. The target populations will be adult english speakers who spent 1 to 10 years of their early infancy/childhood in a ...
Professor Mark Gareth Gaskell | Psychology | 01 October 2007
Learning a new spoken word involves a division between two speeds of learning. We learn some aspects immediately, but linking this new word in with neighbouring words in the mental dictionary (or lexicon) is relatively slow, and emerges only after a ...
Dr W Macken | Psychology | 01 April 2006
How is meaning represented in memory? Work with patients with brain injury shows that knowledge for living things can be selectively impaired whilst that for nonliving things remains preserved (and vice versa)This suggests critical differences in the ...
Professor Janette Atkinson | Psychology | 01 October 2007
How do humans find their way around? One suggestion is that they possess internal spatial “maps”However, a range of simpler strategies have also been shown to support human navigation and spatial memory. One such strategy would be to use view matchin ...
Dr Lesley Mcmillan | Sociology | 01 September 2007
The research aims to collect a large body of evidence about the process and experience of reporting the crime of rape. Evidence gathered will be examined to establish what factors influence the very low conviction rate for rape and to generate a deep ...
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