Psychology & Neuroscience (School of)

The School of Psychology & Neuroscience has consistently been ranked one of the best research departments in the UK. Our research is broadly organised around 5 research themes, namely human cognition, neuroscience, origins of mind, perception, and social psychology, with many members of the School carrying out research in more than one theme. Researchers from the School also contribute to numerous interdisciplinary research centres and institutes.
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Ostension, pragmatics, and presumptions of relevance : an investigation of communication cognition in non-human primates
(2023-06-15) - ThesisA prominent debate in the study of non-human primate cognition concerns their level of cognitive engagement with communication, and especially their capacity for pragmatic and ostensive communication. I investigated this ... -
Leadership impression from the face across cultures
(2022-06-17) - ThesisPeople agree on who should be a leader based solely on static facial images, and this naive judgement is found to predict actual leadership emergence. Although many impressions correlate with leadership success, the perceived ... -
Enhancing vision : a project on audio-visual decision-making, and a project on strengthening the visual system by short-term monocular patching
(2023-06-15) - ThesisVision is important; two projects were conducted to explore the enhancement of vision (multisensory combination, novel procedure to improve visual functioning). In the first project, audition was combined with vision, to ... -
The effects of developmental stress on circadian rhythm ontogeny and the expression of diurnal behaviours
(2022-11-29) - ThesisAbstract redacted