Browsing Psychology by Author "Newell, Fiona"
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Age-related sensory decline mediates the Sound-Induced Flash Illusion: Evidence for reliability weighting models of multisensory perception
Newell, Fiona; Kenny, Rose; Setti, Annalisa (2019)Perception of our world is proposed to arise from combining multiple sensory inputs according to their relative reliability. We tested multisensory processes in a large sample of 2920 older adults to assess whether sensory ... -
An investigation into the role of visual and auditory information in evaluations of attractiveness
Cullen, Brendan (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2015)Attraction is the initial basis on which the vast majorities of our friendships and relationships are formed. Information forjudging attractiveness can be derived from any sensory input however the greater part of the ... -
Crossmodal face recognition
Casey, Sarah Jane (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2006)Although all faces share the same basic configuration of features, we are capable of distinguishing between, and recognising hundreds, and even thousands of faces with remarkable skill and precision. The perceptual processes, ... -
Do synaesthesia and mental imagery tap into similar cross-modal processes?
Newell, Fiona; Mc Govern, David (The Royal Society, 2019)Synaesthesia has previously been linked with imagery abilities, although an understanding of a causal role for mental imagery in broader synaesthetic experiences remains elusive. This can be partly attributed to our ... -
The effect of eye disease, cataract surgery and hearing aid use on multisensory integration in ageing.
Kenny, Rose; Newell, Fiona; Setti, Annalisa (2020)Sensory impairment is common in ageing, as are approaches to treat it. However, the impact of age-related sensory impairment upon multisensory perception remains unexplored, despite the multisensory nature of our environment. ... -
Elucidating multisensory interactions in synaesthesia
Bargary, Gary (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2008)This work examines synaesthesia; a neurodevelopmental phenomenon widely believed to be the result of aberrant cross-talk from one cortical area to another. A number of behavioural measures were used to assess the nature ... -
Gray matter volume in the right angular gyrus is associated with differential patterns of multisensory integration with aging
Newell, Fiona; Setti, Annalisa; Kenny, Rose; Williamson, Wilby (2021)Multisensory perception might provide an important marker of brain function in aging. However, the cortical structures supporting multisensory perception in aging are poorly understood. In this study, we compared regional ... -
Naturalness perception of materials : a sensory, affective or cognitive evaluation?
Whitaker, T. Aisling (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2010)The studies reported in this thesis contribute to a new and emerging field of investigation, which focuses on the neural processes underlying pleasure, aesthetics and moral evaluations in the brain by merging this field ... -
Putting touch into context: investigating tactile perception in body-based and object-based contexts
O' DOWD, ALAN MICHAEL (Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2020)The present thesis consists of two themes. The first theme aims to expand our understanding of how the visual body context influences visuo-tactile interactions for nonspatial perception and the potential role of body ... -
Sensory cue interactions in person perception : insights from ageing and developmental prosopagnosia
Maguinness, Corrina (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2015)A large body of behavioural and neuropsychological research, using static images of faces, has informed our understanding of the mechanisms underlying identity processing. Indeed, pioneering studies revealed dedicated ... -
Temporal and spatial factors affecting the cross-modal integration of object information
Woods, Andrew Thomas (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2005)This thesis is concerned with how temporal and spatial factors influenced the cross-modal integration of object representations across modalities. Specifically tested was whether temporal synchrony and spatial co-location ... -
The effect of audition on the deployment of visuo-spatial attention
Rogers, Daniel Kenneth (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2011)Vision is commonly accepted as being our most dominant sense. However, our everyday experience informs us that the world is not unisensory. Information from other senses can help us in searching for and identifying objects ... -
The multisensory perception of social cues in virtual crowds
McHugh, Joanna Edel (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2010)The current thesis contributes to the field of social and affective psychology, with a focus on the perception of social cues from groups or crowds of people. While to date there is a wealth of literature in this area on ... -
The role of body information in the perception of social attention
Pomianowska, Iwona (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2011)The computation of where another person is attending constitutes a crucial part of our daily lives and is necessary for adequately interacting with other human beings in our social environment. The focus of the present ... -
The role of vision in haptic spatial cognition
Pasqualotto, Achille (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2007)In the studies described here the role of vision on haptic spatial cognition was investigated. Since vision is believed to be the most important sense for spatial perception I investigated whether it affects spatial ... -
Urban and rural environments differentially shape multisensory perception in ageing
Newell, Fiona; Kenny, Rose; Setti, Annalisa (2021)Recent studies suggest that the lived environment can affect cognition across the lifespan. We examined, in a large cohort of older adults (n = 3447), whether susceptibility to a multisensory illusion, the Sound-Induced ...