Our research focuses on learning, memory, attention, perception, executive functions, visuospatial function, language and affect. We incorporate a wide range of techniques, including paper and pencil tests, digital paradigms, surveys, electroencephalography (EEG), neuroimaging techniques (e.g., functional/structural magnetic resonance imaging), eye-tracking technologies, brain stimulation (using transcranial direct current stimulation) and motion capture.
Our research projects include healthy younger and older people, in addition to people with neurological and neurodegenerative conditions (e.g., stroke, Alzheimer’s disease), or mental health problems (e.g., anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation).
Many of our projects contribute to the University’s strategic priority research theme of Health and Wellbeing, and we have a variety of industry and international partnerships.
Multidisciplinary research networks
Many of our projects contribute to the University’s strategic priority research theme of Health and Wellbeing, and we have a variety of industry and international partnerships. A range of innovative University-wide, multi-disciplinary research networks are also led by researchers within the Psychology Cognition research theme.
- Dementia Research Network (Director: Dr William McGeown)
- 麻豆女优 Ageing Network (Director: Dr Louise Nicholls)
- Stroke Research Group (Director: Professor Madeleine Grealy)
Our lab groups/facilities
We have a number of specialised research groups and dedicated research laboratories:
- Applied cognition lab
- Driving stimulation
- Memory & ageing lab group
- Oculomotor control
- Pedagogy research group
- Perception & action
- Psychophysiology
Department of Psychological Sciences & Health Staff members
| Staff member | Role | Research interests |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Lizann Bonnar | Senior Teaching Fellow | Visual attention; mental health; education; face processing |
| Dr Stephen Butler | Senior Lecturer | Eye movements; Attention and biases; Cerebral asymmetry; Face processing; Neuropsychology; Industry engagement; knowledge exchange |
| Teaching Associate | Alzheimer’s disease; Early functional decline in people with dementia | |
| Dr Mark Elliott | Senior Lecturer | Applied & experimental social psychology; Attitudes; Social cognition modelsty |
| Dr Kellyanne Findlay | Senior Teaching Fellow | Visual perception; depth perception; stereoscopic (binocular) depth perception; categorical perception; letter recognition & identification; perception of emotion; face perception |
| Professor Madeleine Grealy | Professor | Stroke rehabilitation; ageing; perceptuomotor control; positive psychology; physical activity |
| Professor Ben Jones | Professor | Face processing; social perception; mate preferences; sexual behaviour |
| Dr Steve Kelly | Senior Teaching Fellow | Explicit & implicit attitudes; transliminality |
| Dr William McGeown | Reader | Alzheimer’s disease/dementias; hypnosis/suggestibility; neuropsychology; neuroimaging; neurophysiology |
| Dr Allan McGroarty | Teaching Fellow | Interrogative suggestibility; social comparison; self-concept clarity; beliefs relating to medications for stammering |
| Dr Louise Brown Nicholls | Senior Lecturer | Working memory; visual cognition; cognitive ageing; cognitive interventions; cognition & emotion |
| Dr Mario Parra | Senior Lecturer | Cognitive ageing; dementia; neuropsychology; neuroimaging; neurophysiology; technologies; global initiativesy |
| Dr Susan Rasmussen | Senior Lecturer | Suicide; self-harm; cognitions; emotion regulation; autobiographical memory |
| Dr David Robertson | Lecturer | Face recognition; Identity verification; Attention; Distractibility; Fake News Detection |
