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The role of peripheral vision in the flashed face distortion effect 2016 -2018
The flashed face distortion effect is a phenomenon whereby images of faces, presented at 4-5 Hz in the visual periphery, appear distorted. It has been hypothesised that the... -
Attitudes towards tax compliance: Micro businesses 2014-2016
We surveyed a random sample of self-employed taxpayers using an online questionnaire. To find out more about the attitudes of micro businesses towards tax compliance,... -
Investigations into the role of moral emotions on tax avoidance and tax filin...
The data contains the results from three experiments investigating the role of emotions. The first two focus on the moral emotions anger, disgust and contempt with regard to... -
Atypical bodily self-awareness in vicarious pain responders 2016-2017
Little work has assessed whether trait differences in bodily self-awareness are associated with conscious vicarious pain. Here we addressed this gap by examining individual... -
Reconceptualising how children with autism learn words 2016-2018
Data from a series of experimental studies conducted in 2017-2018 investigating how children with autism spectrum disorder and typical development learn words. Children... -
Parent-child Conversation with Digital Personalized Books, 2017-2018
This study investigated parent-child reading of books with personalised and non-personalised features. Parents and children were invited to the research laboratory and asked to... -
Understanding and alleviating reading difficulties in older adults 2014-2018
This project aimed to understand the cognitive processes underlying adult age differences in reading. Three broad questions were addressed: 1) Do young and older adults differ... -
The contribution of visual attention and declining verbal memory abilities to...
Our ability to learn unfamiliar routes declines in typical and atypical ageing. The reasons for this decline, however, are not well understood. Here we used eye-tracking to... -
Curiosity-based learning in infants: a neurocomputational approach, experimen...
Infants are curious learners who drive their own cognitive development by imposing structure on their learning environment as they explore. Understanding the mechanisms by which... -
Evidence for systematicity in infant and toddler curiosity-driven learning 20...
The study is an eyetracking experiment run with 12- and 28-month old children and adults. Participants from each age group were randomly assigned to a label or no-label... -
Cross-modal number comparison in adults: timing modulates the distance effect...
Two experiments where we systematically investigated the correspondence between auditory number words and visual Arabic digits in adults. Auditory number words and visual Arabic... -
Chilean language and reading alliance 2017-2018
A reading and language intervention programme trialled in an isolated Chilean population. These data are derived from a randomised controlled trial study that evaluated the... -
Assessing ocular activity during performance of motor skills using electroocu...
This collection contains Quiet Eye (QE) duration (separating pre‐ and post-movement initiation components) and Eye Quietness (EQ) data as a function of time in a golf putting... -
Biased cognition in East Asian and Western Cultures: Behavioural data 2016-2018
This data collection consists of behavioural task data for measures of attention and interpretation bias, specifically: emotional Stroop, attention probe (both measuring... -
The UK communicative development inventory database: words and gestures ages ...
We piloted a version based on data from various Babylabs, selecting words for which comprehension significantly increased with age over this range, thus eliminating several... -
Evidence for systematicity in infant and toddler curiosity-driven object expl...
The overall goal of this award was to understand how babies learn when allowed to explore their environment based on their own curiosity, outside the constrained experimental... -
Perceived credibility of autistic witnesses and the effect of diagnostic info...
One-hundred-and-twenty-five mock jurors rated the credibility of video testimony of 17 autistic and 17 TD witness participants recalling an event. Half of the juror participants... -
The Manchester Language Study initial cohort: Seven-year-old data for childre...
The project aimed to a) determine the psycholinguistic profiles of children attending language units in England, b) investigate their social-emotional well-being and c) gather... -
A new understanding of conformity and atrocity, experimental data 2013-2015
We have run a series of studies that include two (ethical) paradigms of Milgram's obedience studies. The first, which takes place online, asks participants to assign... -
Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness trial of humanistic counselling in schoo...
The ETHOS study (Effectiveness and Cost-effectiveness Trial of Humanistic Counselling in Schools) was a 'fully powered', two arm, parallel-group RCT which compared the clinical...