Cognition and Neuroscience Research Group

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• Prof David Pearson - Lead
• Prof Peter Bright
• Dr James Close
• Dr Suzanna Forwood
• Dr Sharon Geva
• Prof Cathrine Jansson-Boyd
• Dr Emily McKendrick
• Prof Sharon Morein-Zamir
• Dr Mike Pake
• Dr Tamer Said

• Azeezat Aminu
• Tanja Ecken
• Eray Ertuğrul
• Lewis Horsman
• Alastair McGregor
• Maria Murga
• Komal Ramlagun
• Rathna Seetharaman
• Lorraine Tindale
• Danielle Wyman

• Prof David Pearson: Heuristic-based errors during intuitive spatial reasoning, presentation at 18th European Workshop on Imagery and Cognition (June 2024).
• Dr Sharon Geva: Neuroscience of Inner Speech, Imperial College London Radio Station interview, June 2024.
• Prof Sharon Morein: You’re not a hoarder, so why do you have so much clutter?, The Telegraph, April 2024.
• Prof Cathrine Jansson-Boyd: The Psychology Behind Humor, Psychology Today, March 2024.
• Prof Cathrine Jansson-Boyd organised the Festival of Consumer Sciences, March 2024.
• Prof Cathrine Jansson-Boyd: The Psychology of Shopping, talk at the Cambridge Festival, March 2024.
• Prof Cathrine Jansson-Boyd featured in the programme M&S: How they got back on top, Channel 5, March 2024.
• Prof Cathrine Jansson-Boyd: The Royal Brand Affects How We See Football, Psychology Today, September 2023.
• Prof Cathrine Jansson-Boyd: Shrinkflation: Deception or Good Business?, Psychology Today, September 2023.
• Prof Cathrine Jansson-Boyd: Wilko customers bid farewell to Cambridgeshire stores for final time, Planet Radio interview, September 2023.
• Prof Cathrine Jansson-Boyd: How pubs could get drinkers to swallow a peak-time price rise, The Conversation, September 2023.
• Prof Sharon Morein: Public talk at the Cambridge Wellness Festival (September 2023), and with PhD student Enes Kartal, led activities with the public.
• Prof Peter Bright: New Developments in Baseline Neuropsychological Assessment, joint presentation with Dr Ian van der Linde, Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust and ARU Joint Conference on Digital Innovations in Practice (September 2023).
• Lorraine Tindale: Poster presentation at the Annual Conference of the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies, Cardiff (July 2023).
• Prof David Pearson: Eye movements and perceptual disturbances, joint presentation with David Ho, Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust and ARU Joint Conference on Digital Innovations in Practice (September 2023).
• Prof Peter Bright and Dr Jane Aspell were on the organising committee for the 2023 Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust and Anglia Ruskin University Joint Conference on Digital Innovations in Practice.
• Prof Cathrine Jansson-Boyd: How Consumers Can Help the Planet: Reuse and upcycle, Psychology Today, July 2023.
• Prof David Pearson: lead conference organiser, 17th European Workshop on Imagery and Cognition (EWIC), ARU, 20-22 June 2023. The meeting was attended by over 100 delegates and included keynote presentations by Robert Logie (University of Edinburgh), Joel Pearson (University of New South Wales), Emily Holmes (Uppsala University), and Neil Burgess (UCL).
• Prof Cathrine Jansson-Boyd: Consumers Want Brands to Be Authentic: Businesses should pay attention, Psychology Today, May 2023.
• Prof Cathrine Jansson-Boyd: The Price of Products Guides Consumer Expectations: More than just a number, Psychology Today, May 2023.
• Prof Cathrine Jansson-Boyd: SHOPPING SECRETS: I’m a psychologist – the secret labels and tricks supermarkets use to make you spend more and how to avoid them, The Sun, April 2023.
• Prof Cathrine Jansson-Boyd: Expert shares 'nonsense' shopping mistake many will fall for this Valentine's Day, The Mirror, February 2023.
• Prof Cathrine Jansson-Boyd: TAKE NOTE: I’m a psychologist – simple basket trick supermarkets use to make you spend more and how to avoid it, The Sun, January 2023.
• Dr Sharon Geva: Podcast for International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) conference, created by London secondary school students and The University of Oxford, spring 2022.
• Dr Sharon Geva: Imagination is a spectrum – and 1% of people can’t mentally visualise things at all, The Conversation, February 2022.
• Dr Sharon Geva: Understanding MRI (animated videos for the public), Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, 2022.

van der Linde, I. and Bright, P. (2024) 'The prediction limits of the National Adult Reading Test and its abbreviated and international variants', Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society (in press).

Parker Jones, O., Geva, S., Prejawa, S., Hope, T. M. H., Oberhuber, M., Seghier, M. L., Green, D. W. and Price, C. J. (2024) 'Dissociating cerebellar regions involved in formulating a sentence plan and articulating it overtly', Neurobiology of Language. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_00148

Geva, S., Hoskote, A., Sainee, M., Clark, C. A., Banks, T., Chong, W. K. K., Baldeweg, T., de Haan, M. and Vargha-Khadem, F. (2024) 'Cognitive outcome and its neural correlates after cardiorespiratory arrest in childhood', Developmental Sciences, e13501. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13501

Jansson-Boyd, C. V., Mul, C. L. and Raeva-Beri, D. (2024) 'Cerebrating and engagement, paths to reduce fresh produce waste within homes', Scientific Reports, 14(1), 8120. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-58250-0

Jansson-Boyd, C. V. and Mul, C. L. (2024) 'Drivers That Affect Households to Reduce Food Waste: A UK Qualitative Study', Sustainability, 16(5), 2188. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3390/su16052188

Pearson, D. (2024) 'Mental Imagery and Creative Cognition'. In: Ball, B. and Vallée-Tourangeau, F. (2024), The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Cognition. 1st edn. Abingdon: Routledge.

Prof Peter Bright has co-edited an article collection on metacognition for Scientific Reports, now published (October 2023). Available at: https://www.nature.com/collections/fjifjeaibi

Hodgetts, C. J., Close, J. O. E. and Hahn, U. (2023) 'Similarity and structured representation in human and nonhuman apes', Cognition, 236, 105419. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.10541

Bright, P., Cadman, K., Finessi, M. and van der Linde, I. (2023). 'Development of tools for estimating premorbid cognitive abilities in visually impaired and blind adults', Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 35, A72. (published conference abstract).

Geva S., Schneider, L. M., Khan, S., Lorca-Puls, D. L., Gajardo-Vidal, A., PLORAS team, Hope, T. M. H, Green, D. W. and Price, C. J. (2022) 'Enhanced left superior parietal activation during successful speech production in patients with left dorsal striatal damage and error-prone neurotypical participants', Cerebral Cortex. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhac282

Filippi, R. and Bright, P. (2022) 'A cross-sectional developmental approach to bilingualism: Exploring neurocognitive effects across the lifespan', Ampersand, 10, 100097. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amper.2022.100097

Wyman, D. L., Butler, L., Bright, P., Morgan‐Trimmer, S., Budgett, J. and Cooper, C. (2022) 'A systematic review of process evaluations for psychosocial interventions designed to improve the wellbeing and quality of life of community‐dwelling people with dementia and their carers', International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 37(12). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.5828

Wyman, D. L., Butler, L., Cooper, C., Bright, P., Morgan-Trimmer, S. and Barber, J. (2022) 'Process evaluation of the New Interventions for independence in Dementia Study (NIDUS) Family stream randomised controlled trial: protocol', BMJ Open, 12(6), 54613. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-054613

Mercure, E., Bright, P., Quiroz, I. and Filippi, R. (2022) 'Effect of infant bilingualism on audiovisual integration in a McGurk task', Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 217, 105351. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105351

Pearson, D. (2021) 'Training the mind's eye: arts education and creative cognition', NiTRO, 39.

Filippi, R., Ceccolini, A. and Bright, P. (2022) 'Trajectories of verbal fluency and executive functions in multilingual and monolingual children and adults', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 75(1), pp. 130-147.

van der Linde, I., Horsman, L. and Bright, P. (2021) 'The validity of abbreviated forms of the National Adult Reading Test and Spot-the-Word 2 for estimating full-scale IQ',Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/09602011.2021.1958874

Filippi, R. and Bright, P. (2021) 'Cognitive Reserve and Language Experience: Can Long-Term Use of Multiple Languages Protect Our Brains From the Effects of Aging?', Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 748181. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.748181

Filippi, R., Ceccolini, A. and Bright, P. (2021) 'Trajectories of verbal fluency and executive functions in multilingual and monolingual children and adults', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820931096

Jansson-Boyd, C. V. and Kobescak, M. (2020) 'To see is to hold: Using food surface textures to communicate product healthiness', Food Quality and Preference, 81, 103866. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2019.103866

Filippi, R., Ceccolini, A., Periche-Tomas, E. and Bright, P. (2020) 'Developmental trajectories of metacognitive processing and executive function from childhood to older age', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820931096.

Filippi, R., Periche-Tomas, E., Papageorgiou, A. and Bright, P. (2020) 'A role for the cerebellum in the control of verbal interference: comparison of bilingual and monolingual adults', PLOS ONE. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231288

Vieira, A., van der Linde, I., Bright, P. and Wilkins, A. (2020) 'Preference for lighting chromaticity in migraine with aura', Headache. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/head.13801

Buckland, S., Kaminskiy, E. and Bright, P. (2020) 'Individual and family experiences of loss after acquired brain injury: A multi-method investigation', Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/09602011.2019.1708415

Bright, P. and van der Linde, I. (2020) 'Comparison of methods for estimating premorbid intelligence', Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 30(1), pp. 1-14. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/09602011.2018.1445650