Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
Health and Wellbeing
- Management and treatment of offenders (with a particular focus on evaluation)
- Risk assessment
- Psychological impact of working in forensic settings or with forensic clients
- Public attitudes to perpetrators and victims of crime (including victim blame)
- Individual Differences, Personality, Beliefs
- Social Psychology
- Positive Psychology
- Mental Health, Resilience
- Psychometrics, Measurement
- Occupational, Counselling Perspectives
- Applied Psychology
Professor Elizabeta Mukaetova-Ladinska
- Development of Offending, particularly Childhood Antecedents
- Role of Social Cognition in Antisocial Behaviour and Offending
- Interventions for Offenders to Reduce Reoffending
- Evaluation of Interventions for Offenders
- Risk and Criminogenic Need in Offender Populations
- Clinical Health Psychology
- Visual Loss in Diabetes
- Rehabilitation in Cardiac and Respiratory Disease
- Health Professional/Patient Communication
- Impact of Vicarious Trauma
- Health Professional Behaviour Change
- Individual and Organisational Career Management including Career Choice, Employability, and Career Changes
- Coaching Psychology in Occupational Settings and Applied Positive Psychology
- Impact of Trauma on Child Mental Health
- Evaluation of Child Mental Health Interventions for Vulnerable Children
- Evaluation of Child Mental Health Services
Judgement and Decision Making
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Game Theory
- Experimental Games
- Cooperative Reasoning
- Evolution of Cooperation
- Judgment and Decision Making in Adults and Children
- Counterfactual Thinking
- Causal Reasoning
- Reasoning and Mathematical ability
- Decision Making under Stress
- Risk Taking
- Fast and Frugal Heuristics
- Deductive Reasoning
- Unconscious Bias
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Overconfidence
- Ambiguity Aversion
- Advice Giving and Taking
- Communication and Perception of Confidence
- Individual Differences in Decision Making
Mechanisms of Animal Behaviour
- Cellular Mechanisms Associated to Hearing Loss and Tinnitus
- Synaptic Transmission and Plasticity in the Auditory Brainstem Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus
- Gap Detection Startle Reflex Paradigm
Dr Hamann’s research interests also fall within the remit of the vision and language research strand.
- Cellular Mechanisms of Memory Storage
- Plasticity in the Cerebellar Cortex
- Vesicle Movement and Transmitter Release
- Novel Mechanisms of Huntington's Disease
- Gene Expression and Regulation in Huntington’s Disease
- Neurodegeneration
Dr Tom Matheson (also affiliated to the Systems Neuroscience strand)
- Invertebrate Neurobiology
- Function of Sensory and Motor Systems in Insects
- Limb Movement Control
- Locust phase change (swarm formation)
- Neuronal Plasticity
- Mechanisms controlling variability in neuronal circuits
- In vivo Electrophysiology, kinematics, muscle force measurement
- Insect Neurobiology and Behaviour
- Phase Change in Locusts as a Model for Socially Induced Phenotypic Plasticity
- Molecular, Neurochemical and Neural Mechanisms in Behavioural Plasticity
- Functional Neuroanatomy and Evolution of Invertebrate Nervous Systems
- Mechanisms Underlying Spatial Learning - Role of Associative Processes
- Mechanisms Underlying Perceptual Learning - Inhibitory Learning versus Stimulus Differentiation
- Role of the Hedonic Properties of Stimuli in Classical Conditioning (Flavour and Context Conditioning)
- Changes in Stimulus Effectiveness or Salience, Using Standard Conditioned Emotional Response, Flavour Conditioning and Spatial Learning Tasks
- The Role of Serotonin and Its Interaction with Stress in Cortical Development
- Modulation of Neuronal Properties by Serotonin and Nitric Oxide
- Learning, Memory Formation and the Integration of Internal and External Sensory Information in Molluscs
- The Environmental and Neural Basis of Learning and Memory in Health and Disease
- Comparisons of Theories of Learning
- Roles of Contexts
- Competition and Facilitation in Associative Learning
- Reconsolidation and Extinction
- Avoidance Learning
- In Vitro and In Vivo Measurement of Neurotransmitter Function
- Mechanisms Controlling Motivated Behaviour
- Models of Psychiatric and Neurological Dysfunction
Systems Neuroscience
- The role of the Hypothalamus in Feeding Behaviour
- How Energy-Sensing and Higher-Order Brain Systems Influence Decisions and Memory as They Relate to Food Choices
- Auditory Processing in Neurons of the Brainstem and Neocortex
- Hearing Loss and Neurodegenerative Disease Mechanisms of the Auditory Pathway
- Presynaptic Imaging and Transmission at the Synapse (Including the Calyx of Held)
- Activity-Dependent Modulation of Potassium Channels and Intrinsic Excitability
- The Impact of Metabolic Substrates and Other Resources on Synaptic Transmission
- Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Learning and Cognition
Professor Forsythe’s research interests also fall within the remit of the vision and language research strand.
- Mechanisms of Reward-Related Learning and Addiction
- Investigating the Anatomical and Neurochemical Substrates of these Forms of Plasticity Using Behavioural, Pharmacological, and Electrophysiological Approaches
- Neuronal Plasticity
- Synaptic Transmission
- Epilepsy
Dr Tom Matheson (also affiliated to the mechanisms of animal behaviour strand)
- Invertebrate Neurobiology
- Function of Sensory and Motor Systems in Insects
- Limb Movement Control
- Locust phase change (swarm formation)
- Neuronal Plasticity
- Mechanisms controlling variability in neuronal circuits
- In vivo Electrophysiology, kinematics, muscle force measurement
- The Neurobiology of Feeding, Addiction, and Motivation
- Understanding the Neural Processes that Govern Behaviour Towards Adaptive Rewards (e.g. Food) and Maladaptive Rewards (e.g. Drugs)
- How Nutritional Value (e.g. Caloric Content or Macronutrient Content) Affects Learning and Responding About Different Foods
- Locomotor Development, Function and Disease
- Neuronal Signalling Molecules that Influence Motor Circuit Maturation
- Developmental Transitions in Motor Output
- Motor Network Disease
- Genes, Neural Circuits and Human Diseases that are Connected to Aggression Using Zebrafish (Danio rerio) as a Model Organism
- Neurochemical and Pharmacological Basis of Aggression and Related Social Behaviours
- Neurodevelopmental Function of Genes which are Linked to Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Autism-Spectrum Disorder in Human Patients
- Dynamics of Cortical Microcircuits
- In Vivo Electrophysiology
- Systems and Computational Neuroscience
Professor Rodrigo Quian Quiroga
- Neural Coding of Memory
- Visual Perception and Visuo-Motor Transformations
- Single-Trial Evoked Potentials
- Development of Methods for the Analysis of Neurophysiology Data
- The Timing of Medial Temporal Lobe Responses
- Abstract Concept Learning and Decision Making
- Hearing
- Auditory Transduction
- Concussion
- Mechanotransduction
Vision and Language
- Visual Selective Attention
- Visual Working Memory
- Auditory Working Memory and Tinnitus
- Cross Modal Integration and Selection
- Visual-Spatial Working Memory
- Perceptual Organisation
- Spatial Cognition
- Search
- Comparative Cognition
- Visual Perception
- Stereoscopic Vision
- Depth Perception
- Visual Cognition
- Genetic Causes of Infantile Nystagmus
- Diagnosis and Treatment of Infantile Nystagmus
- Outcomes of Amblyopia Treatment
- Effects of Amblyopia on Reading
- Cognitive Control and Executive Functions
- Numerical Cognition
- Pedagogical Research in Assessment and Feedback
- Visual Attention
- Individual Differences in Attention and Cognitive Control (Trait Autism, Psychosis, ADHD, Dyscalculia and Dyslexia, Bilingualism)
- Interaction Between Top-Down and Bottom-Up Control of Memory and Attention
- Problem Solving
- Spatial Vision
- Motion Perception
- Visual Cognition
- Age-Related Visual Decline
- Visual Markers of ‘Non-Visual’ Illnesses (e.g., Alzheimers, Parkinsons, CFS/ME)
- Eye Movement Control
- Reading and Word Recognition
- Effects of Aging and Visual Disorders on Reading
- Cross-Linguistic Differences in Reading
- Eye Movement Behaviour During Reading
- Psycholinguistics
- Parsing and Sentence Interpretation in Children and Adults
- Visual Symptom Abnormalities in Albinism
- Impact of Infantile Nystagmus on Reading
- Developing Treatments in Visual System Disease
- Interactions Between Action and Visual Perception
- Learning in Eye Movement Control
- Genetics of Eye Diseases
- Imaging of the Visual Pathway
- Developing Diagnostic Systems Using Artificial Intelligence
- Animal Models for Nystagmus
- Developing Novel Treatments for Eye Diseases
- Reading Development
- Processes Involved in Writing and Spelling
- Pedagogic Focused Research into Assessment and Feedback
- Eye Movement Behaviour During Reading
- Visual Word Recognition
- Reading Strategy
- Cross-Linguistic Differences in Reading Eye Movement Behaviour