Psychology (Experimental)

Dr Angela Attwood, Effects of social drugs and drug-related stimuli; psychological and biological factors that underline addiction and continued drug use.

Dr Roland Baddeley, Computer modelling of neural and psychological function.

Dr Chris Benton, Visual perception, particularly the investigation of low level visual processing through psychophysics and computational modelling

Professor Jeff Bowers, Memory and language; visual word recognition; speech production; connectionist modelling; word learning.

Dr Josie Briscoe, Developmental cognitive neuroscience; developmental disorders; language impairment; working memory; episodic and event memory in children.

Professor Jeff Brunstorm, Biological psychology, especially learned and cognitive aspects of appetite control and food choice.

Professor Markus Damian, Language production; speaking; psycholinguistics; visual word recognition; computational models of language; unconscious processing; numerical cognition.

Dr Simon Farrell, Short-term memory, specifically memory for serial order; recall latencies in short- and long-term memory; serial correlations in human performance; automation-induced complacency; computational modelling of cognition.

Professor Iain Gilchrist, Acute vision; decision-making; perception; eye movements, neuropsychology; foraging; drawing.

Professor Bruce Hood, Cognitive development from a neuroscience perspective; face and gaze processing; inhibitory control of thoughts and actions; naive theories.

Professor Chris Jarrold, Developmental psychopathology, particularly autism, Williams syndrome and Down's syndrome; working memory in special populations; pretend play; executive dysfunction.

Professor Risto Kauppinen, Development of MR techniques for imaging of normal and abnormal brain functions; use of MRI to define imaging biomarkers for early neurodegeneration; cerebral blood volume-based MRI techniques.

Dr Nina Kazanina, Speech perception; language acquisition; neurolinguistics; sentence processing.

Dr Chris Kent, Perceptual cognition; how perceptual encoding processes and retrieval processes interact; overlapping cognitive operations including identification, categorisation, object recognition, perceptual matching, visual search and memory search.

Dr Ute Leonards, Neuronal mechanisms of visual perception and of higher vision-related cognitive processes, neuropsychology, fMRI, EEG, eye-movements.

Professor Sven Mattys, Psycholinguistics and speech perception. Particular interest in the perceptual, cognitive, and physiological mechanisms underlying spoken word recognition.

Professor Marcus Munafo, Molecular genetic influences on addictive behaviour and the use of social drugs (primarily nicotine and alcohol), in particular the behavioural, cognitive and neural mechanisms that mediate these relationships.

Professor Jan Noyes, Cognitive ergonomics, in particular the application of cognitive psychology in the interface design of advanced and emerging technologies, e.g. speech input/output.

Dr Justin Park, Social perception and cognition, evolutionary social psychology.

Professor Ian Penton-Voak, Social perception of facial characteristics; evolutionary psychology.

Dr Kit Pleydell-Pearce, Neurophysiological and autonomic correlates of cognition (especially perception, attention and memory); slow cortical potentials; spectral and coherence analyses; mental workload; real time analysis of physiology and behaviour; cockpit technologies.

Professor Peter Rogers, Motivation, learning and cognition, especially in relation to appetite and weight control, addiction, and caffeine psychopharmacology; nutrition, health and behaviour.

Dr Angela Rowe, Social cognition with specific regard to person perception and interpersonal relationships.

Dr Nick Scott-Samuel, Visual perception of motion in humans.

Dr Brian Stollery, Relationships between aspects of cognition and health; effects of lead, aluminium, pesticides, organic solvents, anaesthetics on mood and cognitive performance; recovery of cognitive functioning following day-case surgery; cognitive aging; memory; metamemory; occupational stress; workplace errors; risk perception and environmental pollution.