250 datasets found

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...

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....