Dr Roy Allen,
Scot.Dip.Jazz, Dip.Mus., MA(Hons), MBPsS, FCS

Department of Psychology
William Guild Building
Kings College
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen.
AB24 3FX

Room Number S06

Tel:  +44 (0)1224 272665
Fax:  +44 (0)1224 273426
E-mail: roy.allen at abdn.ac.uk - substitute "@" for "at"

 		 
     

Subject areas:
                            Cognitive psychology - dynamic spatial cognition;
                                                                            Aging, emotion & theory of mind;
                                                                                                                        Episodic memory encoding & retrieval.

See also the Cognitive Electrophysiology & Memory Laboratory (CEML) website

                                                                                                    and the Aging, Cognition and Emotion Laboratory (ACELab) website

Publications:

Martin, D., Slessor, G., Allen, R., Phillips, L.H. & Darling, S. (In press). Processing orientation and emotion recognition. Emotion,

Insch, P., Bull, R., Phillips, L.H., Allen, R. & Slessor, G. (in press). Adult aging, processing style and the perception of biological motion. Experimental Aging Research.

Phillips, L.H., Bull, R., Allen, R, Insch, P., Burr, K. & Ogg, W. (2011). Lifespan aging and belief reasoning: Influences of executive function and social cue  decoding. Cognition, 120, 236 - 247. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.05.003

Allen, R., & McGeorge, P. (2011). Enumeration: Experts take their time. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 25, 588 - 592. DOI: 10.1002/acp.1727

Allen, R., Fioratou, E., & McGeorge, P. (2011). Cognitive adaptation: spatial memory or attentional processing. A comment on Furley and Memmert (2010). Psychological Reports: Perceptual and Motor Skills, 112 (1), 243 - 246. DOI: 10.2466/04.22.PMS.112.1.243-246

Deregowski, J., Allen, R., & McGeorge, P. (2011). On representation of solids: a note. Perception, 40 (2), 243 - 246. DOI: 10.1068/p6748

Botterill, K., Allen, R., & McGeorge, P. (2011). Multiple-object Tracking: the binding of spatial location and featural identity. Experimental Psychology, 58 (3), 196 - 200. DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000085

Barker, K., Allen, R., & McGeorge, P. (2010). Multiple Object Tracking: Enhanced visuospatial representations as a result of experience. Experimental Psychology, 57 (3), 208 - 214. DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000026   

Allen, R. & McGeorge, P. (2008). Subitizing: shape information and expertise. Acta Psychologica, 129, 26 - 31. DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2008.04.003   

Allen, R. & McGeorge, P. (2006). Expertise effect in enumeration: Subitizing or counting? Perception, 35 (Supplement), p.125.

Allen, R., McGeorge, P., Pearson, D.G. & Milne, A.B. (2006). Multiple-Target Tracking: A role for Working Memory? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 59 (6), 1101 - 1116.DOI: 10.1080/02724980543000097   

Allan, K. & Allen, R. (2005). Retrieval attempts transiently interfere with the concurrent encoding of episodic memories, but not vice versa. Journal of Neuroscience, 25 (36), 8122 - 8130.

Phillips, L.H. & Allen, R. (2004). Adult aging and the perceived intensity of emotions in faces and stories. Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 16 (3), 190 - 199.

Allen, R., McGeorge, P., Pearson, D. & Milne, A.B. (2004). Attention and expertise in multiple target tracking. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 18, 337 - 347. DOI: 10.1002/acp.975   

Phillips, L.H., MacLean, R.D.J. & Allen, R. (2002). Age and the understanding of emotions: neuropsychological and sociocognitive perspectives. Journal of Gerontology B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 57, 526 - 530.

Conferences
Posters:

Allen, R. Bull, R., & Phillips, L. (2009). The effects of aging on static and dynamic emotion expression recognition. Emotions, Stress and Aging Conference, University of Geneva, 24th - 26th June 2009.

Insch, P., Phillips, L., Allen, R. & Bull, R. (2009). Age effects in biological motion perception correlate with global processing decline. Emotions, Stress and Aging Conference, University of Geneva, 24th - 26th June 2009.

Phillips, L., Bull, R. & Allen, R. (2009). Aging effects on theory of mind and social cue detection. Association for Psychological Science’s 21st annual convention, San Francisco, 21st - 24th May 2009.

Huebner, I., Phillips, L., & Allen, R. (2008). Adult age differences in the perception of emotions from written vignettes. Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 10th - 13th April 2008.

Allen, R., McGeorge, P, & Pearson, D. (2003). Working memory and the visual tracking of multiple moving targets. Ninth European Workshop on Imagery and Cognition, Pavia, Italy, 25th - 27th April 2003.

Allen, R. & Allan, K. (2003). Neurophysiological evidence for 'Cognitive Resource Protection' at early stages of retrieval in Episodic Memory? Tenth Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, USA, 29th March - 2nd April 2003.

Allen, R., McGeorge, P, & Pearson, D. (2001). Multiple Target Tracking: Does practice make perfect? Eighth European Workshop on Imagery and Cognition, Saint-Malo, France, 1st - 3rd April 2001.

 

Papers:

Allen, R. (2010). Driver cognition and crash avoidance: when turning left is turning right. Safety in Professional Traffic Symposium, Helsinki, Finland, 16th June 2010.

Allen R. & McGeorge, P. (2010). Forward displacement, attention and the multiple-object tracking task. Twelfth European Workshop on Imagery and Cognition, Helsinki, Finland, 16th - 19th June 2010.

Allen R. & McGeorge, P. (2007). Expertise and Location error in Multiple-Object Tracking. Symposium on Multiple-Object Tracking, British Psychological Society Cognitive Section annual section, Aberdeen, Scotland,  20th - 22nd August 2007.

Allen, R. & McGeorge, P. (2007). Attentional resources and location error in multiple-object tracking. Eleventh European Workshop on Imagery and Cognition, Utrecht, Holland, 27th - 29th June 2007.

Allen, R. & McGeorge, P. (2006). Expertise effect in enumeration: Subitizing or counting? Invited talk at "Varieties of multiple-object tracking", a symposium at the 29th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), St Petersburg, Russia, 20th - 25th August, 2006.

Allen, R. & McGeorge, P. (2006). Enumeration and minimum point shapes. School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, internal research conference, 15th June.

Allen, R. & McGeorge, P. (2006). Expertise and the Multiple-Object Tracking Task. Invited talk at "Twenty years of Multiple Object Tracking: What have we learned?", a Satellite Workshop of the Vision Sciences Society's 6th Annual (VSS) Meeting, Sarasota, Florida, 5th - 10th May.

Allen, R. & McGeorge, P. (2006). Subitizing: Preattentive processes and expertise. 6th Scottish Vision Group Meeting, Aberdeen, 6th - 8th April 2006.

Allen, R., McGeorge, P., & Pearson, D. (2005). Multiple-object tracking and imagery. Tenth European Workshop on Imagery and Cognition, St. Andrews, Scotland, 28th - 30th June 2005.

Allen, R., McGeorge, P., Pearson, D. & Milne, A. (2003). Expertise effects in multiple-target tracking. Fifth Biennial Meeting of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC), Aberdeen, Scotland, 2nd - 6th July 2003.

Allen, R., McGeorge, P, & Allan, K. (2003). Subitizing: visual indexes or virtual object. Ninth European Workshop on Imagery and Cognition, Pavia, Italy, 25th - 27th April 2003.

 

Book Reviews:

Allen, R. (2004). Review of Scholl, B.J. (Ed.). (2002). Objects and attention. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, in The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 57 (2), 381 - 382.

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