ProfessorEvan Livesey
(he / him)
Interim Head of School
Faculty of Science
Research projects & supervision summary
Project Opportunities
Title: Selective attention and its role in human learning
Summary of opportunity:
This project explores the relationship between learning and selective attention and the influence of these processes on the performance of a range of cognitive tasks. The principal focus will be implicit learning and its interactions with the temporal dynamics of attention, though there will be scope to explore other aspects of both attention and learning.
Opportunity synopsis:
Learning and attention shape the way we engage with our environment by allowing us to anticipate impending events and to select which information we process about those events. Learning and selective attention interact in a complex fashion and this project seeks to understand the mechanisms at play at the interface of these processes.
RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONCauses, Mechanisms, and Mitigation of Socially-Induced Nocebo Effects
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONContributions of familiarity and chunking to visual working memory capacity
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONExploring the Content and Awareness of Learned Control States in Cognitive Control
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONGABA-ergic inhibition in the Motor Cortex: Implications for Proactive and Reactive Inhibition, Impulsivity and Dysregulated Consumption Patterns
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONIntracortical Inhibition and Response Inhibition in healthy adults and gamblers
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONLearning and causal illusion: the role of outcome frequency and causal framing in the development of false beliefs
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONMechanisms of the Partial Reinforcement Extinction Effect
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONPrediction error and cognitive control in human causal learning
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONThe contributions of Pavlovian conditioning and information-seeking to value-modulated attentional capture
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONThe Influence of Choice on Placebo and Nocebo Effects
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONThe Redundancy Effect in Human Causal Learning
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONThe Relationship Between Extinction Learning Processes and Callous Unemotional Traits
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONThe role of expectancy in conflict adaptation
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONThe Role of GABAergic Activity in Human Motor Inhibition
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONUnderstanding the factors driving socially-induced nocebo effects
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONUnderstanding the Mechanisms of Punishment Insensitivity and Their Implications for Alcohol Use Disorder
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONUnderstanding the unique contributions of distinct dopamine circuits to learning.
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONUnmasking the Link Between Psychopathy, Impulsivity, and Offending