Organization profile

Organisation profile

The School of Psychology is part of the College of Life Sciences and Medicine and provides an exciting and vibrant research-led learning environment for both undergraduate and postgraduate studies.

Our research activity is grouped around three themes:

Within these themes, specialist groups conduct research funded by research councils, government, charitable groups, and industry on topics ranging from understanding the fundamental processes of the human mind and their link to underlying brain structures to the application of this theoretical knowledge to current societal problems.

Fingerprint Dive into the research topics where Psychology is active. These topic labels come from the works of this organisation's members. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cues Medicine & Life Sciences

Short-Term Memory Medicine & Life Sciences

Episodic Memory Medicine & Life Sciences

Aptitude Medicine & Life Sciences

Eye Movements Medicine & Life Sciences

Saccades Medicine & Life Sciences

Research Medicine & Life Sciences

Emotions Medicine & Life Sciences

Network Recent external collaboration on country level. Dive into details by clicking on the dots.

Profiles

Kevin Allan

Psychology, Psychology - Lecturer

Person: Academic

Søren K. Andersen

Psychology, Psychology - Senior Lecturer

Person: Academic

Mirjam Brady-Van den Bos

Psychology, Psychology - Lecturer (Scholarship)

Person: Academic Related - Scholarship

Research Output 1970 2019

Age-related differences in the ability to decode intentions from non-literal language

Pomareda, C., Simkute, A. & Phillips, L. H., Jul 2019, In : Acta Psychologica. 198, 9 p., 102865.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Aptitude

Language

Young Adult

Interpersonal Relations

Nonliteral Language

An advantage for horizontal motion direction discrimination

Pilz, K. S. & Papadaki, D., May 2019, In : Vision Research. 158, p. 164-172 9 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Direction compound

Individuality

Anticipating predictability: an ERP investigation of expectation-managing discourse markers in dialogue comprehension

Rasenberg, M., Rommers, J. & van Bergen, G., 3 Jun 2019, In : Language cognition and neuroscience. 16 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

comprehension

dialogue

discourse

experiment

Language

Equipment

Behavioural Testing

Psychology

Facility/equipment: Facility

psychology

research facility

school

emotion

industry

Colour Psychophysics Laboratory - Psychology

Jasna Martinovic (Manager)

Psychology

Facility/equipment: Facility

Psychophysics

Color

Psychology

Equipment and Supplies

Research

Emotion Lab

Margaret C Jackson (Manager)

Psychology

Facility/equipment: Facility

Cognition

Emotions

Psychology

Emotional Intelligence

Architectural Accessibility

Datasets

Numerosity underestimation and visual crowding

Chakravarthi, R. (Creator), Bertamini, M. (Creator), University of Aberdeen, 2018

DOI: 10.20392/a5d0e345-8fca-4141-a6b3-e75976d7a82b

Dataset

Crowding and Subitizing

Chakravarthi, R. (Creator), University of Aberdeen, 1 Aug 2017

DOI: 10.20392/165cee3b-5d4b-4945-829e-cf07ee222ac0, http://10.17632/568zfbn8ry.1

Dataset

The effect of gaze position on reaching movements in an obstacle avoidance task: Article Data

Hesse, C. (Creator), Figshare, 8 Dec 2015

DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1569218.v1, https://figshare.com/articles/Data_for_the_article_The_effect_of_gaze_position_on_reaching_movements_in_an_obstacle_avoidance_task_/1569218

Dataset

Prizes

Associate Fellow and Chartered Member of the BPS

Margaret C Jackson (Recipient), Mar 2013

Prize: Election to learned society

Member of ESCOP (The European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy)

Margaret C Jackson (Recipient), 12 May 2015

Prize: Election to learned society

medicine

expertise

drug

society

evidence

Member of the Experimental Psychology Society

Margaret C Jackson (Recipient), 20 Jan 2014

Prize: Election to learned society

Activities 2011 2019

COST Action CA18106 "The neural architecture of consciousness" (Event)

Kristian Sandberg (Chair), Christian Lambert (Member), Christoph Teufel (Member), Bert Timmermans (Member), Stephen Fleming (Member), Hugo Critchley (Member), Manuel Schabus (Member), Axel Cleeremans (Member), Andrea Vranic (Member), Blaz Rebernjak (Member), Milan Brazdil (Member), Manon Grube (Member), Talis Bachmann (Member), Henry Railo (Member), Tiina Parviainen (Member), Catherine Tallon-Baudry (Member), Boris Gutkin (Member), Guido Hesselmann (Member), Melanie Wilke (Member), Konstantinos Ionannidis (Member), Lorina Naci (Member), Liat Lavi (Member), Roy Salomon (Member), Inga Griskova-Bulanova (Member), Claude Bajada (Member), Martin Dresler (Member), Elisabeth Norman (Member), Johan Storm (Member), Michal Bola (Member), Michal Wierzchon (Member), Adrian Opre (Member), Irina Macsinga (Member), Jovana Bjekic (Member), Sladjana Arsic (Member), Igor Farkas (Member)

5 Apr 2019 → 4 Apr 2023

Activity: Membership › Membership of research network

Social interaction: rewarding contingencies in joint attention and motor learning

Bert Timmermans (Speaker)

20 Mar 2019

Activity: Talk, presentation, public lecture, public engagement, outreach and knowledge exchange › Invited talk

Social interaction: joint attention, action contingencies, and agency

Bert Timmermans (Speaker)

12 Jun 2019

Activity: Talk, presentation, public lecture, public engagement, outreach and knowledge exchange › Invited talk

Press / Media

Five ways rudeness can actually be a positive experience

Amy Louise Irwin & Ceri Tamsin Trevethan

18/10/19

1 Media contribution

Press/Media: Articles in 'The Conversation'

New tractor driver situation awareness checklist

Amy Louise Irwin

23/04/19 → 26/04/19

4 items of Media coverage

Press/Media: Research

Students, this is how you can stand out from the crowd in a very competitive job market

Amy Louise Irwin & Gabi Ionut Lipan

19/03/19

1 Media contribution

Press/Media: Articles in 'The Conversation'

Psychology

Organization profile

Organisation profile

Fingerprint Dive into the research topics where Psychology is active. These topic labels come from the works of this organisation's members. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Network Recent external collaboration on country level. Dive into details by clicking on the dots.

Profiles

Kevin Allan

Søren K. Andersen

Mirjam Brady-Van den Bos

Research Output 1970 2019

Age-related differences in the ability to decode intentions from non-literal language

An advantage for horizontal motion direction discrimination

Anticipating predictability: an ERP investigation of expectation-managing discourse markers in dialogue comprehension

Equipment

Behavioural Testing

Colour Psychophysics Laboratory - Psychology

Emotion Lab

Datasets

Numerosity underestimation and visual crowding

Crowding and Subitizing

The effect of gaze position on reaching movements in an obstacle avoidance task: Article Data

Prizes

Associate Fellow and Chartered Member of the BPS

Member of ESCOP (The European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy)

Member of the Experimental Psychology Society

Activities 2011 2019

COST Action CA18106 "The neural architecture of consciousness" (Event)

Social interaction: rewarding contingencies in joint attention and motor learning

Social interaction: joint attention, action contingencies, and agency

Press / Media

Five ways rudeness can actually be a positive experience

New tractor driver situation awareness checklist

Students, this is how you can stand out from the crowd in a very competitive job market

Impacts

Assessment of Mood and Cognitive Function

British Science Festival Exhibition

Depressive Disorder Research