Psychology in Science Group
Research areas – cognition, cognitive science and biological psychology
Research includes:
- cognitive psychometrics
- normative and web-based studies of cognitive processes
- concepts, categorisation and word meaning; compositionality and complex concepts; deference and expertise
- language acquisition, word learning, naming
- memory, including organisation of knowledge, retrieval processes
- visual cognition, especially visual attention
- biopsychology of psychotic disorders
- biology of individual differences
- motivation, emotion and learning
- cognition and emotion
- cognitive biases of attention and interpretation in anxiety
- problem solving and skill acquisition, including assessment of complex skills
- individual differences in learning and problem-solving performance, protocol analysis
- neural network and symbolic models of cognition
- connectionist models of learning, with particular reference to the simulation of selective attention and inferencing in categorisation
- socio-cognitive skills and deficits in autism spectrum disorders
- imagination and creativity: theoretical and individual
- difference approaches
- non-conscious semantic priming
- hypnosis.
Psychology postgraduate opportunities are also available in the Psychology in Social Sciences group (main topics social, forensic, occupational and theoretical psychology), and the Centre for Childhood, Development and Learning, Faculty of Education and Language Studies (main topics developmental and educational psychology).
