Browsing Psychology (Scholarly Publications) by Date of Publication
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A randomised controlled trial of computerised cognitive cognitive rehabilitation for unilateral left neglect
(Elsevier, 1990)Microcomputers are widely used in cognitive rehabilitation of brain damage. Unilateral neglect is commonly a target of cognitive rehabilitation, both computer-based and non-computer-based. This study reports the results ... -
The Irish mind abroad - the experiences and attitudes of the Irish diaspora
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Serial attention within working memory.
(Psychonomic Society, 1998)It is proposed that people are limited to attending to just one ?object? in working memory (WM) at any one time. Consequently, many cognitive tasks, and much of everyday thought, necessitate switches between WM items. ... -
When Falsification Fails
(The Psychological Society of Ireland, 1998)This study investigated the effectiveness of a falsification logic at early and late stages of the hypothesis testing process. The subject's task was to discover the "laws of motion" in a computerized Artificial ... -
Deductive reasoning with factual, possible and counterfactual conditionals
(Psychonomic Society, 1999)We compared reasoners' inferences from conditionals based on possibilities in the present or the past (e.g., "If Linda had been in Dublin then Cathy would have been in Galway") with their inferences based on facts in the ... -
Right hemispheric dominance of inhibitory control: an event-related fMRI study.
(National Academy of Science, 1999)Normal human behavior and cognition are reliant on a person?s ability to inhibit inappropriate thoughts, impulses, and actions. The temporal and spatial advantages of event-related functional MRI (fMRI) were exploited to ... -
The temporality effect in counterfactual thinking about what might have been
(Psychonomic Society, 2000)When people think about what might have been, they undo an outcome by changing events in regular ways. Suppose two contestants could win 1,000 Pounds if they picked the same color card; the first picks black, the second ... -
A paramatric manipulation of central executive functioning
(Oxford University Press, 2000)The central executive is both an important and poorly understood construct that is invoked in current theoretical models of human cognition and in various dysexecutive clinical syndromes. We report a task designed to isolate ... -
Cue-induced cocaine craving: Neuroanatomical specificity for drug users and drug stimuli.
(American Psychiatric Publishing, 2000)OBJECTIVE: Cocaine-related cues have been hypothesized to perpetuate drug abuse by inducing a craving response that prompts drug-seeking behavior. However, the mechanisms, underlying neuroanatomy, and specificity of this ... -
Rehabilitation of executive functioning: An experimental?clinical validation of Goal Management Training
(2000)Two studies assessed the effects of a training procedure (Goal Management Training, GMT), derived from Duncan?s theory of goal neglect, on disorganized behavior following TBI. In Study 1, patients with traumatic brain ... -
Counterfactual thinking about controllable events
(2000)When people think about what might have been, they mentally undo controllable rather than uncontrollable events. We report the results of two experiments in which we examined this controllability effect in counterfactual ... -
Mental models and pragmatics: Author's response
(Cambridge University Press, 2000)Van der Henst argues that the theory of mental models lacks a pragmatic component. He fills the gap with the notion that reasoners draw the most relevant conclusions. We agree, but argue that theories need an element of ... -
Safety Management Systems and Safety Culture in Aircraft Maintenance Organisations
(2000)A self-regulatory model was proposed to examine how different organisations manage safety, with particular emphasis on the human and organisational aspects. The relationships of different aspects of safety culture and ... -
A computational model of counterfactual thinking: The temporal order effect
(Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001)People generate counterfactual alternatives to realitywhen they think about how things might have happeneddifferently, 'if only?'. There are considerableregularities in the sorts of past events that peoplementally undo, ... -
Contradictions and counterfactuals: Generating belief revisions in conditional inference
(Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002)Reasoners revise their beliefs in the premises when an inference they have made is contradicted. We describe the results of an experiment that shows that the belief they revise depends on the inference they have made. They ... -
Cingulate hypoactivity in cocaine users during a GO/NOGO task as revealed by event-related fMRI.
(Society for Neuroscience, 2003)Although extensive evidence exists for the reinforcing properties of drugs of abuse such as cocaine, relatively less research has addressed the functional neuroanatomical correlates of the cognitive sequelae of these ... -
Activation and deactivation during the rapid visual information processing task: an fMRI study.
(MIT Press, 2003)Sustained attention deficits occur in several neuropsychi- atric disorders. However, the underlying neurobiological mechanisms are still incompletely understood. To that end, functional MRI was used to investigate ... -
Multiple neuronal networks mediate sustained attention
(MIT Press, 2003)& Sustained attention def icits occur i n several neuropsychi- atric di sorders. However, the underlying neurobiol ogical mechani sms are stil l i ncompletely understood. To that end, f unctional MRI was used to ... -
Counterfactual thinking: the temporal order effect
(2004)People often think about how things might have happened differently. Their counterfactual thoughts tend to mentally undo the most recent event in an independent sequence. Consider a game in which two players must each pick ...
