Potential Postgraduate Projects

Cognition

  • Dr Kevin Allan
    • Memory for food and its role in healthy dietary behaviour
    • Social meta-cognition: how do we know when to trust another person's memory?
  • Dr Sandie Cleland
    • Language production
    • Word recognition and attention
  • Dr Judith Hosie
    • Risk-taking in adolescence
    • Emotional control in adolescence
  • Dr David Pearson
    • Mental imager in clinical disorders
    • Eye movements and visuo-spatial cognition

Perception and Attention

  • Dr Philip Benson
    • Psychiatric endophenotypes
    • Neurocognitive timing
  • Dr Rama Chakravarthi
    • Visual attention and awareness
    • Visual crowding and object recognition
  • Dr Frouke Hermens
    • Eye tracking economic decision making
    • The influence of barely visible stimuli
  • Dr Constanze Hesse
    • Dissociations and Interactions in perception and action control
    • The role of attention in action control
  • Dr Amelia Hunt
    • The relationship between visual attention and eye movements
    • The effect of eye movements on vision and attention
  • Dr Jasna Martinovic
    • The roles of luminance and colour information in perceptual organisation
    • Neural mechanisms of object identification
  • Dr Karin Pilz
    • Visual motion perception in aging
    • Biological motion processing and EEG (elecreoencephalography)
  • Prof Arash Sahraie
    • Blindsight: limits of visual processing after damaged visual pathway
    • Assessment and rehabilitation of vision loss after brain injury
  • Dr Rachel Swainson
    • Why is it difficult to switch tasks?
    • Can electrophysiological brain signals show which task our brains are ready to perform?

Social Cognition