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Individuals with Down syndrome have particular difficulties in language acquisition, and also show relatively poor verbal short-term memory skills. These deficits may be...

When a person tries to remember materials such as words, repeated items are remembered better if they are separated by other items, rather than being presented together. This...

As an extension of the ESRC project Contrasting aspect and tense in English and Chinese (RES-000-22-0135), this project will be comparing and contrasting aspect-related...

There is disagreement between memory researchers over whether false memories are caused at encoding or at retrieval. This disagreement is compounded by the fact that different...

Insight problems are impossible to solve until there is a change in how the problem is represented. There are two alternative approaches to explaining insight problem solving....

We propose experimental studies on how the perception of cause-and-effect relations in simple schematic events develops. If square A moves towards square B which moves upon...

Ambient intelligence (AmI) refers to the convergence of communication technologies, computing devices and interfaces that adapt to the user’s needs and preferences. The AmI...

Theories of motivation and drug craving suggest that feelings of desire (for example, cigarette or alcohol craving) can be produced or increased by cognitive processes. For...

The aim of the study is to use photographic participation and elicitation methods with vulnerable children who help to provide informal care for parents with serious mental...

This research sought to: explore the nature of the role of disgust in anxious psychopathology develop a valid and reliable measure of disgust that measures both frequency of...

The project aims to improve our understanding of the learning processes in colleges of further education and, in turn, to determine the ways in which both learner and...

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...