283 datasets found

People are poorer at recognising other race faces, referred to as an own race bias (ORB). This project examined perceptual tasks requiring attention to the identity of faces and...

Concepts are essential to mental life - they allow us to think about the world, and to communicate these thoughts. Much of psycholinguistic research converges on the view that...

This project sought to understand the ways in which people identify with their work and the extent that this has changed over time. It examined the experience of employees in...

According to a tradition that goes back to Thomas Schelling and David Lewis, the emergence of social conventions can be modelled game-theoretically, as the solution to a...

The project will explore the striking phenomenon that 18-24 month old children, when disoriented, will search for a hidden toy by using the overall shape of the room but not...

This research will extend our earlier ESRC longitudinal study examining relations between parenting and 3-to-5 year-olds' social understanding (SU) and language (R00023701)....

Mass psychogenic illness (MPI) is more frequently observed in females than males. The proposed research investigates whether MPI symptoms can be elicited via expectation and...

This project examines vowel perception and plasticity during second-language (L2) learning by adults. The study will evaluate whether individuals learn to 'perceptually switch'...

The project aims to provide an innovative and interactive approach to identifying skills and training needs which are relevant to beginning to build effective sustainable...

This project focuses on spoken language production in healthy adult speakers and addresses whether semantic codes involved in speaking are 'static' (ie fixed and independent of...

Recent evidence indicates that when a stimulus is met repeatedly in a particular task, many of the mental processes which were initially needed to process it are by-passed....

This is a proposal for pure basic research whose aim is to contribute to the development of social theory and its central problem of structure and agency. Basically this problem...

Film and Television industries tend to cluster in a very small number of places around the world, moreover, they appear to be rooted to these places. These locales tend to be...

Categorization is dividing the world into groups of things. Our ability to do this is central to our mental life, but how do we come to form the categories that we have?...

This project investigates the relationship between self-inhibition processes in low-level motor control, assumed to be mediated by basal ganglia-thalamo-cortical circuits, and...

According to many influential theories of memory, successful retrieval depends on the degree to which the processes used when attempting to retrieve information overlap with the...

The Fellowship programme advances a new field within hazards research geared to enhancing understanding of how people and institutions in developing countries respond to the...

This project will examine how the development of technological capability in Chinese firms is affected by the type of ownership and by the structures of corporate governance....

One of the difficulties in learning to read English is that the relationship between spelling and sound is not always consistent (eg 'ck' is always pronounced as in tick, but...

This research seeks to connect the development of environmental skills and knowledges for young people to the production of a socially viable and economically regenerative...