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Balancing true and false detection of intermittent sensory targets by adjusting the inputs to the evidence accumulation process
(2023)Decisions about noisy stimuli are widely understood to be made by accumulating evidence up to a decision bound that can be adjusted according to task demands. However, relatively little is known about how such mechanisms ... -
Banbury Forum Consensus Statement on the Path Forward for Digital Mental Health Treatment.
(2021)A major obstacle to mental health treatment for many Americans is accessibility: the United States faces a shortage of mental health providers, resulting in federally designated shortage areas. Although digital mental ... -
"Be here now" – service users' experiences of a mindfulness group intervention
(2018)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore service users’ experiences of a mindfulness group intervention. Design/methodology/approach: In total, 15 participants with a diagnosis of a mild or moderate intellectual ... -
Becoming a birth mother in the context of a planned same-sex family: "As amazing as it is, it's kind of a tough road to navigate".
(2021)This qualitative study explored how ten birth mothers in same-sex relationships in Ireland experienced becoming a mother. Semi-structured, face-to-face interviews were audio recorded and transcribed verbatim. Data analysis ... -
Behavioural reactivity and ensuing temperamental traits in young thoroughbred racehorses (Equus caballus)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2005)This thesis is the culmination of a four-year research project carried out through the Department of Psychology in the University of Dublin, Trinity College and in which behavioural reactivity and ensuing temperamental ... -
Body, self and world : the embodied experience of chronic illness and medical technology
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2009)Illness and medical treatment profoundly alter how we experience the body and relate to our worlds. The aim of this thesis is to carry out a conceptual and empirical analysis of the role of the body in the experience of ... -
BOLD frequency power indexes working memory performance
(2013)Electrophysiology studies routinely investigate the relationship between neural oscillations and task performance. However, the sluggish nature of the BOLD response means that few researchers have investigated the spectral ... -
The captive brain: Torture and the neuroscience of humane interrogation
(Oxford University Press, 2018)Despite it being abhorrent and illegal, torture is sometimes employed for information gathering. However, the extreme stressors employed during torture force the brain away from the relatively narrow, adaptive range of ... -
The Case for Change & An Ethical Approach to Wellbeing Management in Aviation: Wellbeing II and Advancing an Integrated Health & Safety Culture
(2021)Work is part of our wellbeing and a key driver of a person’s health. As argued by Elkington (1994), work needs to balance three benefit areas –economic/profit, people/society and planet/ecological(Elkington, 1994)Across ... -
The case for change: aviation worker wellbeing during the COVID 19 pandemic, and the need for an integrated health and safety culture
(2022)The workplace is an important setting for health protection, health promotion and disease prevention. Currently, health and wellbeing approaches at an aviation organisational level are not addressing both human and safety ... -
Case mixing and the right parietal cortex: evidence from rTMS.
(Springer, 2006)We investigated the necessary role of the right parietal lobe in visual word recognition using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). TMS was applied to the right posterior parietal lobe and to a control area as participants ... -
Category-dependent and category-independent goal-value codes in human ventromedial prefrontal cortex
(2013)To choose between manifestly distinct options, it is suggested that the brain assigns values to goals using a common currency. Although previous studies have reported activity in ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) ...