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A National Evaluation of the Counselling in Primary Care Service (CIPC)
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2020)Until this study, there were no national data for the effectiveness of counselling or psychotherapy provided in the primary care context in the Republic of Ireland. The government policy document Vision for Change states ... -
A national evaluation of the Irish public health counselling in primary care service examination of initial effectiveness data.
(2021)Background The Counselling in Primary Care service (CIPC) is the first and only nationally available public counselling service in the Republic of Ireland. This study provides initial data for the effectiveness of ... -
Naturalness perception of materials : a sensory, affective or cognitive evaluation?
(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 ... -
Negative body image evaluations in young adolescent boys and girls : assessing an integrative aetiological model
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2014)The present study provides a unique and timely contribution to Irish and international research focusing on one of the key concerns recently highlighted by young people in this country, that of body image. Recent prevalence ... -
Negotiating life with laughter. A grounded theory
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2020)Using a classic Glaserian grounded theory methodology, the phenomenon of laughter was initially investigated in a broad sense. Grounded theory does not require, or recommend the commencement of investigative work which ... -
The neural basis of video gaming
(2011)Video game playing is a frequent recreational activity. Previous studies have reported an involvement of dopamine-related ventral striatum. However, structural brain correlates of video game playing have not been investigated. ... -
The neural correlates of deficient error awareness in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
(2009)The ability to detect and correct errors is critical to adaptive control of behaviour and represents a discrete neuropsychological function. A number of studies have highlighted that attention-deficit/hyperactivity ... -
Neural evidence accumulation persists after choice to inform metacognitive judgments.
(2015)The ability to revise one's certainty or confidence in a preceding choice is a critical feature of adaptive decision-making but the neural mechanisms underpinning this metacognitive process have yet to be characterized. ... -
Neural mechanisms for response selection: comparing selection of items and responses from working memory.
(Elsevier, 2007)Recent functional imaging studies of working memory (WM) have suggested a relationship between the requirement for response selection and activity in dorsolateral prefrontal (DLPFC) and parietal regions. Although a number ... -
Neural mechanisms involved in error processing: A comparison of errors made with and without awareness
(Elsevier, 2005)The ability to detect an error in one's own performance and then to improve ongoing performance based on this error processing is critical for effective behaviour. In our event-related fMRI experiment, we show that explicit ... -
Neural Mechanisms Mediating the Cross Education of Motor Function: Implications for Healthy Older Adults
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2022)Cross education (CE) is the process whereby a regimen of unilateral limb training engenders bilateral improvements in motor function. It is widely held that the contralateral gains thus derived may impart therapeutic ... -
Neural mechanisms underlying visuomotor learning : interacting cortical systems
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2003)Introduction: We are the products of our experiences. Every sight, sound and smell, every event, encounter and exchange, all leave their indelible mark on the way we act, think and feel. The things we learn from our ... -
Neural pathways mediating cross education of motor function.
(2013)Cross education is the process whereby training of one limb gives rise to enhancements in the performance of the opposite, untrained limb. Despite interest in this phenomenon having been sustained for more than a century, ... -
Neural processing of Spatial Information: What we know about Place cells and what they can tell us about Presence.
(MIT Press, 2006)Brain processing of spatial information is a very prolific area of research in neuroscience. Since the discovery of place cells (PCs)(O'Keefe & Dostrovsky, "The hippocampus as a spatial map," Brain Research 34, 1971) ... -
Neuroanatomy of executive functions, cognitive control processes and their interactions using functional magnetic resonance imaging
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2005)Human behaviour, though appearing seamless, is comprised of a number of differing and interacting cognitive processes. In this dissertation I attempted to establish the anatomical networks subserving a number of different ... -
Neurochemical enhancement of conscious error awareness.
(2012)How the brain monitors ongoing behavior for performance errors is a central question of cognitive neuroscience. Diminished awareness of performance errors limits the extent to which humans engage in corrective behavior and ... -
Neurocognitive and electrophysiological indices of cognitive performance in ageing
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2011)Combining neuropsychological and electrophysiological methodologies this thesis investigates differential cognitive performance in ageing and attempts to identify neurocognitive and electrophysiological markers with the ... -
The neurocognitive correlates of compulsivity
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2020)The shortcomings of classic psychiatric nosology, such as the vast similarity across and heterogeneity within disorder categories, have limited progress in psychiatric research. In this thesis, we outline three neurocognitive ...