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Nottingham, University of, PhD, Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience

University of Nottingham
 United Kingdom

 

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Full-time n/a years: 3
The cognition subgroup explores core and applied areas of cognitive psychology (attention; eye movements; memory; and language); research explores how human performance changes with experience, using eye-tracking methodologies to record differences; research includes: The difference between experienced and less experienced readers; 1st and 2nd language users; differences between novice and experienced car drivers; the work on memory investigates the influence of emotional and threatening material upon recall and recognition; research uses eye-tracking to investigate the cognitive processes that are used to comprehend combinations of text and graphics (advertisements; photograph captions in newspapers; and figure captions in textbooks); research focuses on 2 main areas: perception and action; and vision; with the former researchers are particularly interested in understanding the psychological and brain mechanisms through which sensory information is bound together and used to plan and control human action; they is also interested in the recovery of function after brain injury; there is research in vision ranges from traditional visual psychophysics to computational modelling, electrophysiology and brain scanning.

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