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
    • Effects on cognitive functioning of natural and urban environments
    • Cognitive processes in involuntary and intrusive memories
  • Prof Louise Phillips
    • Adult aging and emotional and social skills
    • Brain disease and emotional and social skills

Perception and Attention

  • Dr Philip Benson
    • Psychiatric endophenotypes
    • Neurocognitive timing
  • Dr Rama Chakravarthi
    • Probing the relationship between visual attention and awareness using the Motion Induced Blindness illusion
    • Why is reading in the visual periphery so slow
  • Dr Frouke Hermens
    • Computer models of where and when we look
    • Eye movements in economic decision making
  • 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 short-term memories for motion in aging
    • Using electroencephalography to study how the brain processes biological motion
  • 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

  • Prof Mike Burton
    • Face Recognition
    • Visual Cognition
  • Dr Margaret Jackson
    • Interactions Between Emotion and Memory
    • Capacity Limits in Visual Working Memory
  • Prof Neil Macrae
    • Person Perception
    • Mental Time Travel
  • Dr Doug Martin
    • Stereotype formation and application 
    • Extracting social information from faces
  • Dr Lynden Miles
    • Interpersonal synchrony
    • Social perception and action