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Absence of age effects on spontaneous past and future thinking in daily life
Warden, Elizabeth; Plimpton, Benjamin; Kvavilashvili, Lia (2019-06)Previous research on voluntary mental time travel (i.e., deliberately thinking about the past or future) has resulted in negative age effects. In contrast, studies on spontaneous past thoughts (i.e., involuntary autobiographical ... -
Achieving the impossible : A review of magic-based interventions and their effects on wellbeing
Wiseman, Richard; Watt, Caroline (2018-12-06)Research has demonstrated that involvement with mainstream performing arts, such as music and dance, can boost wellbeing. This article extends this work by reviewing little-known research on whether learning magic tricks ... -
Adherence to prophylaxis in adolescents and young adults with severe haemophilia: a qualitative study with healthcare professionals
Van-Os, Sandra; Ryder, Nuala; Hart, Daniel; Troop, Nicholas (2020-01-28)Aim: to examine healthcare professionals’ (HP) perceptions and experiences in relation to adherence to prophylactic treatment among young people living with haemophilia (YPH). Methods: All HPs in four haemophilia centres ... -
Age effects in autobiographical memory depend on the measure
Mair, Ali; Poirier, Marie; Conway, Martin A. (2021-10-29)Studies examining age effects in autobiographical memory have produced inconsistent results. This study examined whether a set of typical autobiographical memory measures produced equivalent results in a single participant ... -
Ageing and thought suppression performance: Its relationship with working memory capacity, habitual thought suppression and mindfulness
Erskine, James A K; Georgiou, George (2017-08-01)A study investigated how the ability to suppress thoughts in the laboratory was affected by type of thought suppressed (positive, negative, neutral), participants’ age and working memory ca- pacity (WMC). Linked variables ... -
And Now for Something Completely Different: Inattentional Blindness during a Monty Python's Flying Circus Sketch
Wiseman, Richard; Watt, Caroline (2015-02-01)Perceptual science has frequently benefited from studying illusions created outside of academia. Here, we describe a striking, but little-known, example of inattentional blindness from the British comedy series “Monty ... -
Assessing the stability of thematic and taxonomic preferences across explicit and implicit measures
Shipp, Nicholas; Jackson, Malcolm; Anthony, Susan (2019)Assessments of similarity between objects has shown to draw upon both taxonomic and thematic properties. While cross-task preferences have been demonstrated (Mirman & Graziano, 2012), the current experiment aimed to examine ... -
Avoidant coping and consumptive behaviour
Erskine, James; Georgiou, George; Kvavilashvili, Lia (2014) -
Behavioral, Cognitive, and Affective Consequences of Trying to Avoid Chocolate
Erskine, James; Georgiou, George (Humana Press, 2012) -
Blink and you'll miss it: The role of blinking in the perception of magic tricks
Wiseman, Richard J.; Nakano, Tamami (2016-04-04)Magicians use several techniques to deceive their audiences, including, for example, the misdirection of attention and verbal suggestion. We explored another potential stratagem, namely the relaxation of attention. ... -
Can False Memories Prime Problem Solutions for Healthy Older Adults and Those With Alzheimer’s Disease?
Akhtar, Shazia; Howe, Mark; Hoepstine, Kedron (2018-06-05)ObjectiveRecent research has shown that false memories can have a positive consequence on human cognition in both children and young adults. The present experiment investigated whether false memories could have similar ... -
The case for mainstream solar in the UK
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Categorizing facial expressions : a comparison of computational models
Shenoy, Aruna; Anthony, Susan; Frank, Raymond; Davey, N. (2011)Recognizing expressions is a key part of human social interaction, and processing of facial expression information is largely automatic for humans, but it is a non-trivial task for a computational system. The purpose of ... -
Children retain implicitly learned phonological sequences better than adults: A longitudinal study
Smalle, Eleonore H M; Page, Michael; Duyck, Wouter; Edwards, Martin G.; Szmalec, Arnaud (2018-09-01)Whereas adults often rely on explicit memory, children appear to excel in implicit memory, which plays an important role in the acquisition of various cognitive skills, such as those involved in language. The current study ... -
Climate change: Time to Do Something Different
Page, Nadine; Page, M.P.A. (2014-11)There is now very little, if any, doubt that the global climate is changing and that this is in some way related to human behaviour through unsustainable preferences in lifestyle and organisational practices. Despite the ... -
Cognition can be distributed, extended, enacted, embodied and systemic (but does it matter which?)
Shipp, Nicholas; Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic (British Psychological Society (BPS), 2019-02-01) -
Collective remembering and future forecasting during the COVID-19 pandemic: How the impact of COVID-19 affected the themes and phenomenology of global and national memories across 15 countries
Öner, Sezin; Watson, Lynn Ann; Adıgüzel, Zynep; Ergen, İrem; Bilgin, Ezgi; Curci, Antonietta; Cole, Scott; de la Mata, Manuel L.; Janssen, Steve M. J.; Lanciano, Tiziana; Markostamou, Ioanna; Nourkova, Veronika; Santamaría, Andrés; Taylor, Andrea; Barzykowski, Krystian; Bascón, Miguel; Bermeitinger, Christina; Cubero-Pérez, Rosario; Dessenberger, Steven; Garry, Maryanne; Gülgöz, Sami; Hackländer, Ryan; Heux, Lucrèce; Jin, Zheng; Lojo, María; Matías-García, José Antonio; Roediger III, Henry L.; Szpunar, Karl; Tekin, Eylul; Uner, Oyku (2022-07-12)The COVID-19 pandemic created a unique set of circumstances in which to investigate collective memory and future simulations of events reported during the onset of a potentially historic event. Between early April and late ... -
Comparing music‐ and food‐evoked autobiographical memories in young and older adults: A diary study
Jakubowski, Kelly; Belfi, Amy M.; Kvavilashvili, Lia; Ely, Abbigail; Gill, Mark; Herbert, Gemma (2023-07-19)Previous research has found that music brings back more vivid and emotional autobiographical memories than various other retrieval cues. However, such studies have often been low in ecological validity and constrained by ... -
A comprehensive guide to research protocols for collecting and coding involuntary past and future thoughts
Barzykowski, Krystian; Ilczuk, Ewa; Kvavilashvili, Lia (2024-04-23)The paper presents a comprehensive guide for researchers investigating mind-wandering and related phenomena such as involuntary past and future thinking. Examining such spontaneous cognitions presents a challenge requiring ... -
Concepts and Action: Where does the embodiment debate leave us?
Shipp, Nicholas; Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic; Anthony, Susan (2018-08-22)The behavioural evidence of sensorimotor activity during conceptual processing, along with that from neurological research, ignited the debate around the extent to which concept representations are embodied or amodal. Such ...