Psychology & Neuroscience: Recent submissions
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A behavioural analysis of "choking" in self-paced skills
(University of St Andrews, 1998) - ThesisThis thesis is about "choking" in self-paced skills. Choking refers to ''the occurrence of inferior performance despite striving and incentives for superior performance" (Baumeister and Steinhilber, 1986, p. 361). ... -
Female putty-nosed monkeys use experimentally altered contextual information to disambiguate the cause of male alarm calls
(2013-06-05) - Journal articleMany animal vocal signals are given in a wide range of contexts which can sometimes have little in common. Yet, to respond adaptively, listeners must find ways to identify the cause of a signal, or at least rule out ... -
Cognition in inter-group relations : the effect of group membership on theory of mind and its precursors
(University of St Andrews, 2012) - ThesisSocial categorization based on group membership has a significant and broad influence on behaviour (Turner, Hogg, Oakes, Reicher, & Wetherell, 1987). People perceived as being of the same group, ‘in-group’ members, are ... -
Spatial cognition in three dimensions
(University of St Andrews, 2013) - ThesisTo date, most studies of spatial learning have been conducted in the horizontal plane, with few addressing the vertical dimension. I aimed to investigate learning of 3-D locations by wild, free-living hummingbirds and ... -
On the perception of monocular regions in binocular scenes
(University of St Andrews, 2012) - ThesisOur two forward facing eyes supply the visual system with slightly different versions of the world around us. These slight differences in the two retinal images are used to obtain depth information about a visual ...