283 datasets found

The structure and function of visual-spatial working memory are currently attracting great interest from cognitive, neuropsychological, and developmental perspectives. Despite...

Understanding the beliefs or feelings of another person, referred to as Theory of Mind, is an essential component of everyday social functioning. However, there is debate as to...

The goal of this research project is to improve our understanding of the perceptual and cognitive factors contributing to the segmentation of fluent speech. Speech-segmentation...

Much of what we have come to understand about problem solving, derived from psychological research, has been put to use in a wide variety of applications; these include...

Categorization is a fundamental aspect of cognition and allows us to learn about the world. For example, we learn to categorize which plants are edible, which animals are...

Experimental designs were used to examine the effects of anti-racism messages on prejudice and whether the impact of messages depends on viewers' prior ambivalence toward ethnic...

For many individuals, emotional distress first occurs in adolescence, and worsens throughout the teenage years. If unaddressed, this can lead to serious long-term difficulties...

In this research, we plan to study the processes underlying the cognitive deficits in sad mood and subclinical depression, in order to further understand this pervasive problem....

Mathematics learning, identity and educational practice: the transition into Higher Education. This project focuses on how different mathematics educational practices at 16-19...

The threat to human and animal health posed by a rise in infectious diseases, a decrease in antimicrobial resistance and the risk of zoonoses (diseases transmitted continuously...

We will work with one diverse class of key stage two children as they move from year four to year six. With them we will develop a vocabulary for talking about learning, explore...

Over recent years there have been many advances in our understanding of human face recognition. Despite this, almost all current research proceeds as though human perceivers are...

A central goal for work on human language processing is to spell out the characteristics of the transitory mental operations that enable people to make sense of sentences and...

This is a project about how identities based on class (with gender, race and sexuality) are produced by ethical scenarios presented on television. It explores textually mediated...

Stereotypes are beliefs about traits that are shared by members of a social group. Categorisation on the basis of group membership provides cognitive economy, condensing our...

The focus of this 2-year project (jointly managed between the University of Leeds and University of Leicester) is what we call 'autonomous geographies' - spaces where there is a...

Hypothetical thinking involves the imagination of situations that we have not actually experienced. We may, for example, imagine the consequences of alternative actions...

This study sought to increase and extend our understanding of the learning outcomes of an increasingly diverse higher education system and how these are mediated by the social...

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...