250 datasets found

Coarticulation, one of the central issues in experimental phonetic research, refers to the articulatory overlap of neighbouring sounds, resulting in acoustic and perceptual...

Perceptions of procedural fairness refers to the extent to which procedures used in organisational decision-making are seen as fair. These perceptions influence not only how...

The representation and processing of simple perceptual magnitudes such as the pitch of a sound, or the distance between two dots, is commonly investigated by the 'absolute...

This project aims to understand how the entrepreneur's socio-cultural background influences a firm's entrepreneurial orientation which in turn influences firm growth with...

Advance preparation of motor actions is important if accurate responses to external events are to be made with minimal delay. Such preparation requires selection of appropriate...

Previous research has demonstrated that positive attitudes towards other social groups can be encouraged by instructing people to adopt the perspective of individual members of...

Our social life consists mostly of coordination problems, where we must converge on choices and strategies that will benefit all parties involved. When a solution becomes widely...

The training of childcare practitioners is a key part of the Government's plans for improving and extending childcare for young children (with a particular focus here on the...

Recent research in human causal learning indicates that the amount of "processing power" devoted to learning about a stimulus can be influenced by prior experience of a...

When children first begin learning to read, they use their knowledge of letter sounds to 'sound out' words. This provides children with a means to assign a pronunciation to...

This research involves an inter-regional comparative study of work-life balance (WLB) provision and its impacts on the socio-economic competiveness of firms within the IT sector...

The aim of this project is to examine the development of competition in domestic electricity supply in the UK following the opening to supply competition in May 1999. This will...

This project produced grammatical resources for Indonesian, to guide development of computer-implemented grammars and to establish a standard by which grammar coverage can be...

Words like "few" and "many" denote different quantities of things. Previous experiments have shown that different quantity expressions also lead us to think in very different...

In many of our everyday life situations we are confronted with conflicting information that can lead to incorrect behaviour. Current cognitive models propose a conflict...

Everyday experiences are full of multimodal richness. Something as simple as eating an apple involves experiencing the bright green colour of the apple, the smoothness of its...

British regional policy has emphasised 'locally-bounded' innovation processes dependent upon regional knowledge bases, downplaying the role of global inter-linkages and...

Social cues are known to be particularly important for interpreting the intentions of another individual. It has been suggested that such cues may have a special status by...

Dr Low has a background in historical and anthropological research of southern African Khoekhoe and San, or Bushman, medicine. In his next research topic Dr Low explores the...

This research sought to explicate the effects on school management, teachers and learners of any successful integrations or tensions between creativity and performativity...