School of Psychology: Recent submissions
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Prefrontal Contributions to Attention in Ageing and Stroke: Implications for Cognitive Reserve
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2017)Abstract M?adhbh B. Brosnan Prefrontal contributions to attention in ageing and stroke: implications for cognitive reserve. Global life expectancy is increasing dramatically with a corresponding rise in the prevalence ... -
Supervisee transfer of learning in psychotherapy supervision.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2017)Aim: Clinical supervision is a well established means of facilitating supervisee learning and transfer of learning is explicitly linked to learning. Within the clinical supervision literature, there is an absence of research ... -
Investigating recognition and preferences for self-voice on speech generating devices in autism
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2014)A substantial number of children with autism cannot communicate by voice (Eigsti, de Marchena, Schuh, & Kelley, 2011; Kjelgaard & Tager-Flusberg, 2001). Voice enabled Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices, ... -
Application of Emotion-focused Therapy as a treatment of Generalised Anxiety Disorder : analysis of eight case studies
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2014)The aim of the current study is to develop an effective variant of Emotion- focused Therapy (EFT) for Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD), which can be delivered within the same time-frame as currently accepted, empirically ... -
Sensory cue interactions in person perception : insights from ageing and developmental prosopagnosia
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2015)A large body of behavioural and neuropsychological research, using static images of faces, has informed our understanding of the mechanisms underlying identity processing. Indeed, pioneering studies revealed dedicated ... -
Risk perception as a function of age - a psychological investigation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2015)This thesis explored how older drivers' perception of risk differs from that of younger age groups. Its aim was to enhance knowledge that can inform the development of measures to maintain the driving safety of older drivers ... -
A study of the acculturation and health of the Irish in Britain
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2003)Ireland has had a relatively high rate of emigration for centuries. This has been traditionally out-migration from the island although with an uptum in the economy, in the 1970s, and also in the 1990s, - the latter due ... -
Therapeutic recreation camping programmes for children with chronic illnesses, and their siblings
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2001)Within the healthcare system, camping programmes providing a form of therapeutic recreation service are emerging as a form of intervention for children with chronic illnesses, and their siblings. In numerous instances, ... -
Prismatic adaptation effects on non-spatial and spatial processes in the healthy adult
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2006)The structure of the thesis is broadly based on the hierarchical division of attention into two domains – intensity and selectivity components of attention (Sturm, 1996; Van Zomeren & Brouwer, 1994). The intensity components ... -
Crossmodal priming of unfamiliar faces supports early interactions between voices and faces in person perception
(2017)Although faces and voices are important sources of information for person recognition, it is unclear whether these cues interact at a late stage to act as complementary, unimodal sources for person perception or whether ... -
Perceptual and social attributes underlining age-related preferences for faces
(2016)Although aesthetic preferences are known to be important in person perception and can play a significant role in everyday social decisions, the effect of the age of the observer on aesthetic preferences for faces of different ... -
Individual differences in context-dependent effects reveal common mechanisms underlying the direction aftereffect and direction repulsion
(2016)Both spatial and temporal context influence our perception of visual stimuli. For instance, both nearby moving stimuli and recently viewed motion can lead to biases in the perceived direction of a moving stimulus. Due to ... -
An investigation of error awareness in healthy ageing and a non-invasive approach to its amelioration
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2014)Population ageing has become a global phenomenon. This demographic change flags the remarkable developments made by humanity in recent history, but it also constitutes one of the most challenging problems for contemporary ... -
Parental anxiety, child anxiety and father-child interactons : a longitudinal, multi-method investigation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2014)Childhood anxiety represents a serious mental health concern, and there is a great need to identify risk factors influencing both its development and maintenance in order to design effective therapeutic interventions. ... -
Decreased frontal, striatal and cerebellar activation in adults with ADHD during an adaptive delay discounting task
(2015)An important characteristic of childhood attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a bias towards small immediate versus larger delayed rewards, but it is not known if this symptom is also a feature of adult ADHD. ... -
The role of persistent primitive reflexes in learning difficulties : an evaluation of a new causal theory of dyslexia
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2003)In a recent study in Belfast by McPhillips, Hepper and Mulhern (2000) the persistence of an early motor reflex, the asymmetric tonic neck reflex (ATNR) was linked to dyslexia. A 100% prevalence of the ATNR was reported in ...
