Psychology (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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Connectivity of the Executive Control Network and Its Relation to Function in Adults and Infants
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2023)The executive control network (ECN) is critical for effective, organized behavior. But what mechanisms allow it to play this core role in higher cognition? An important property of the ECN is thought to be its connectivity ... -
An Exploration of the Applications of Neurally-Informed Models to Perceptual Decision-Making Research
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2023)Understanding how the brain translates sensory input into action is of key importance to our understanding of all cognitive processes. Computational models utilise behavioural data to offer insight into the latent variables ... -
Advancing Mental Health Research Using Data Science: Investigating Vulnerability to Depression with Language and Network Analysis
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2023)Depression affects over 5% of the global population, yet treatments for depression are only effective in 30-50% of people. Changing the status quo requires an improved understanding of how depression manifests in real life. ... -
Explanations and Familiarity in XAI: How users understand predictions and make decisions using an AI support system
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2023)We compared the effects of counterfactual and causal explanations for an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system?s decisions in a familiar domain (alcohol and driving) and an unfamiliar one (chemical safety) in four experiments ... -
An examination of the implementation of setting-wide positive behaviour support in an adult disability residential setting
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2022)Positive behaviour support, or PBS, is mandated in Ireland under the Health Act 2007 as an evidence-based framework of practice focused on enhancing quality of life for vulnerable adults living in residential settings. ... -
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 ... -
Perceptions of Clinical Anxiety Disorders among Adolescents in Ireland: An Exploration of Anxiety Literacy, Stigma and Help-Giving Intentions
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Health Leadership and Management Development in Malawi: Towards a Theory for Health Systems Strengthening
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2022)Background: Strong leadership and management capacity of Human Resources for Health (HRH) is key to a health system s performance. However, there is a dearth of evidence-based literature on the application of health ... -
Substance Misuse, Emotional Discomfort, Mindfulness, and Materialism: A Tale of Escape and Wanting More
Substance misuse is responsible for approximately 11.8 million deaths each year, with alcohol misuse alone accounting for 5.3% of all deaths worldwide. One challenge in studying substance misuse is its co-morbidity with ... -
Expectation in Sensory Processing and Perceptual Decision-Making
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2022)At every level of sensory processing, prior experience contributes to the construction of the perceptual world. In the last two decades, there has been renewed interest in the mechanisms that implement these contributions ... -
A Study on the Functional Role of the Locus Coeruleus in Memory Formation and Alzheimer's Disease
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2022)Over the past decade, the locus coeruleus (LC) has fast become a key instrument of study, resulting in a growing amount of evidence signifying its prominence and influence within the central nervous system. Moreover, the ... -
Using neurofeedback and machine learning to investigate the role of Beta oscillations in response inhibition
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2022)Response inhibition is the ability to flexibly suppress unwanted or inappropriate actions, and it is a core component of healthy executive control. Impaired response inhibition is characteristic of a wide range of psychiatric ... -
Implementing internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy for depression and anxiety in routine care: an exploratory study of implementation
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2022)Internet-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy interventions (iCBT) for depression and anxiety have proven their clinical utility through a number of controlled trials, but few studies have been conducted in routine care ... -
What is psychosis? Exploring the Nature and Correlates of Psychotic Symptoms in the General Population and Former Residents of Institutional Care Facilities
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2022)Background: The extant literature indicates that the distinction between affective and non-affective psychotic symptoms is arbitrary. Emerging evidence indicates that psychosis may be best represented as a multidimensional ... -
Acceptability and Effectiveness of an Adapted Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Programme for Depression and/or Anxiety in Breast Cancer Survivors
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2022)Depression and anxiety are the most common psychological problems experienced by breast cancer survivors. However, survivors need for psychosocial care is usually under-recognised; even when recognised, the lack of available ... -
Individual differences in value-based decision-making as predictors of substance dependence
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2021)Substance dependence is a leading global health concern. Alcohol use is the primary risk-factor for deaths and disability-adjusted life years among those between the ages of 15-49 (Griswold et al., 2018). Opioid dependence ... -
Conscious information processing during and after recovery from deep anaesthesia
This thesis aimed to answer two important questions in anaesthesia research. Firstly, despite an abundance of studies examining brain changes upon abolition of consciousness by anaesthesia, very few have focused on how ... -
The Neuropsychological and Neurophysiological Signatures of Age-Related Differences in Mind-Wandering
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2021)Our inner mental life is subject to a constant, discursive, dynamically evolving stream of thoughts. Mind-wandering is the mind s default state, occupying up to half of all conscious cogitations, during which our thoughts ... -
Development and validation of objective measures of brain maintenance and cognitive reserve
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2021)Age-related cognitive decline is an increasingly important societal issue, given projected increases in the proportion of older adults in the coming decades. Early identification of cognitive decline will enable earlier ... -
Triadic parent-child play and toddlers' socio-emotional development: The role of coparenting dynamics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2021)Drawing on the family systems perspectives (Minuchin, 1985; 1988) this thesis aimed to make unique contributions to the field of developmental psychology by examining the role of the coparenting relationship in toddlers ...
