Dr Rachel Swainson

Dr Rachel Swainson
Dr Rachel Swainson
Dr Rachel Swainson

Lecturer

About
Email Address
r.swainson@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 273918
Office Address

School of Psychology William Guild Building Room F08 Kings College Old Aberdeen AB24 3FX

School/Department
School of Psychology

Internal Memberships

Staff Development Lead, School of Psychology

Member of the School's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee

Research

Current Research

  • Cognitive control and task-switching
Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

  • PS1009:   Introductory Psychology I: Concepts & Theory (Biological Psychology lectures)
  • PS3014:   Biological Psychology (Psychopharmacology lectures)
Publications

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  • Do women with fragile X syndrome have problems in switching attention: Preliminary findings from ERP and fMRI

    Cornish, K., Swainson, R., Cunnington, R., Wilding, J., Morris, P., Jackson, G.
    Brain and Cognition, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 235-239
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • ERP correlates of a receptive language-switching task

    Jackson, G. M., Swainson, R., Mullin, A., Cunnington, R., Jackson, S. R.
    Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. A, Human Experimental Psychology, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 223-240
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Mental representation of number in different numerical forms

    Plodowski, A., Swainson, R., Jackson, G. M., Rorden, C., Jackson, S. R.
    Current Biology, vol. 13, no. 23, pp. 2045-2050
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Cognitive control mechanisms revealed by ERP and fMRI: Evidence from repeated task-switching

    Swainson, R., Cunnington, R., Jackson, G. M., Rorden, C., Peters, A. M., Morris, P. G., Jackson, S. R.
    Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 785-799
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Improved short-term spatial memory but impaired following the dopamine D-2 agonist bromocriptine reversal learning in human volunteers

    Mehta, M. A., Swainson, R., Ogilvie, A. D., Sahakian, B. J., Robbins, T. W.
    Psychopharmacology, vol. 159, no. 1, pp. 10-20
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • ERP Correlates of executive control during repeated language-switching

    Jackson, G. M., Swainson, R., Cunnington, R., Jackson, S. R.
    Bilingualism, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 169-178
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Early detection and differential diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and depression with neuropsychological tasks

    Swainson, R., Hodges, J. R., Galton, C. J., Semple, J., Michael, A., Dunn, B. D., Iddon, J. L., Robbins, T. W., Sahakian, B. J.
    Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, vol. 12, pp. 265-280
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Rule-abstraction deficits following a basal ganglia lesion

    Swainson, R., Robbins, T. W.
    Neurocase, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 433-444
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Probabilistic learning and reversal deficits in patients with Parkinson's disease or frontal or temporal lobe lesions: possible adverse effects of dopaminergic medication

    Swainson, R., Rogers, R. D., Sahakian, B. J., Summers, B. A., Polkey, C. E., Robbins, T. W.
    Neuropsychologia, vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 596-612
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Dissociable deficits in the decision-making cognition of chronic amphetamine abusers, opiate abusers, patients with focal damage to prefrontal cortex, and tryptophan-depleted normal volunteers: Evidence for monoaminergic mechanisms

    Rogers, R. D., Everitt, B. J., Baldacchino, A., Blackshaw, A. J., Swainson, R., Wynne, K., Baker, N. B., Hunter, J., Carthy, T., Booker, E., London, M., Deakin, J. F. W., Sahakian, B. J., Robbins, T. W.
    Neuropsychopharmacology, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 322-339
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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