Category: Cognition and Neuroscience

When people read or listen to a conversation, their brains sometimes pro-actively predict which words come next. Research carried out in 2005 suggested that these … Read more

Dr Heather Ferguson has been awarded a three-year Leverhulme Trust Research Grant for a project entitled “Learning from Fiction: A Philosophical and Psychological Study”. The … Read more

Volunteers in the study who had a history of migraines experienced a significant reduction in the number of migraines they normally experienced in a month … Read more

Applications are invited for a £2,000 MSc scholarship, funded by a European Research Council (ERC) grant on the project: Tracking the cognitive basis of social … Read more

Updating your Facebook status can be a fun way to while away the hours – but now it seems it really is making us lose … Read more

An international symposium is being held in the School of Psychology today entitled “The Vestibular System: A System for Mental Life”. The seminar, organised by Dr David … Read more

A non-invasive, home-based procedure to stimulate the inner ear and brain functions that control balance and eye movement can offer hope for the relief of … Read more

Applications are invited for a Leverhulme Trust 3 year PhD studentship, on the project: Imagining the self in fictional worlds: evidence from Autism Spectrum Disorder … Read more

The School of Psychology is delighted to announce that Dr Heather Ferguson is the winner of the prestigious and competitive University Prize for Research. Congratulations, Heather! … Read more

Congratulations to Lauren Spinner, Aife Hopkins-Doyle and Kiran Purewal, who have been awarded £120, £80 and £80 respectively by the Graduate School Eastern ARC Student Mobility Fund to assist … Read more