Brain Behaviour and Cognition Research Group
The Brain, Behaviour and Cognition Research Group was formed in February 2006 and comprises academic and post-graduate researchers from within the psychology department, who are concerned with the mainly experimental study of biological correlates of behaviour and cognition.
Research combines innovative cutting edge techniques including eye tracking, EEG, MRI and visual psychophysics approaches combined with traditional empirical methods, i.e. reaction time paradigms, neuropsychological approaches. The BBCG also provides a research forum for postgraduate students, particularly for students enrolled on the MSc Applied Cognitive Neuroscience course.
Current projects include
- Maturational brain processes in adolescence, effects of age on brain injury, and the role of implicit cognition to social behaviour and other aspects of cognition after frontal brain injury, Dr Lynne Barker in collaboration with Professor Jackie Andrade (University of Plymouth), Dr Charles Romanowski, University of Sheffield, and Dr Nick Morton, Doncaster and South Humber Trust.
- The normal developmental trajectory of social cognition and executive functions in late adolescence - Sophie Taylor, Dr Lynne Barker, Dr Lisa Reidy and Dr Sue McHale participate in a live research project 'how skills such as planning, decision making and understanding of emotion change in 17, 18 and 19 year olds' (Word 282KB)
- Non-verbal decoding of social information after brain injury using eye-tracking techniques, Dr Lynne Barker, Leanne Greene, Dr Allen Goodwin and Dr John Reidy
- Robot models of executive function, Dr Sue McHale with Jason Garforth and Anthony Meehan (OU, Dept. of Computing), and alopecia and the stress response with Dr Nigel Hunt (University of Nottingham)
- Effects of cannabis use and age on executive function ability, Dr Sue McHale, James Reynolds, Dr Lynne Barker and Dr Lisa Reidy
- Behavioural and electrophysiological correlates of perception and cognition, healthy and impaired brain development and ageing, Dr Naira Taroyan
- Emotion recognition and callous unemotional traits in subclinical (normal) and pathological personality disorders; neuroimaging of PTSD online EMDR treatment; relation of 5-HT to impulsivity in ASPD; personality correlates of dietary preferences: Dr Paul Richardson
- Cognitive bases of savant syndrome and memory and executive function in Autism Spectrum Disorder, Dr Lisa Reidy
- Threat detection and memory biases associated with anxiety / depression; Inhibition and control of saccadic eye-movements as a function of anxiety, Dr John Reidy
- Visual Psychophysics and affect manipulation of visual imagery, Dr Allen Goodwin
- Cognitive and biological influences of eating behaviour, food choice and taste preference, Dr Catherine Day
- Inference processes during reading; the influence on preference and liking in mere exposure studies; the relationship between perfectionism and worry, Dr David Reynolds
- Cognitive correlates of schizotypy and cognitive theories of schizophrenia-spectrum dysfunction, Dr Diarmuid Verrier
- Relationship of executive function and self-harm in individuals with borderline personality disorder features - Jennie Drabble, Dr David Bowles and Dr Lynne Barker
- Spoken word processing - event related potentials and EEG coherence as indices of word consolidation following sleep, Dr Lynne Spackman and Dr Anna Weighall
- The behavioural and electrophysiological indices of Audio/visual cross modal affective interactions and how these influence affective ratings and preference, Dr Lynne Spackman
- Nutritional status, eating behaviour and food preferences in children with autism, health psychology and neuropsychology, Rachel Marsden
