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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Personality and family relations of children who bully
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Thinking about what might have been : cognitive processes in counterfactual and semifactual thinking about controllable events
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2000)In this thesis we present the results of ten experiments, involving approximately 2000 participants in total, designed to examine how people think about what might have been. We had two main aims. The first aim was to ... -
Stage fright and an intervention for performers : a study of the phenomenology of stage fright in actors, musicians and other performers, followed by the design and evaluation of intervention for actors in training
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2000)This dissertation on stage fright in performers (actors, musicians, dancers and presenters) describes three studies. The first study (n=175) is a semi-structured in-depth interview with performers in the Netherlands and ... -
The cognitive processes of young offenders
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2000)The aim of this thesis was to contnbute to the existing body of knowledge on young offenders by investigating some cognitive processes that to date, have been given little attention in the literature. This thesis comprised ... -
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 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 ... -
Constructing a social psychological model of prejudice towards minorities : social identity, relative deprivation and widespread beliefs
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2000)A social psychological model of prejudice was developed based on Relative Deprivation and Social Identity Theory. This model emphasised social identification and comparison processes and was designed to predict prejudice ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The child witness : an investigation into children's understanding of the legal process and the perceived competence of children to act as witnesses in legal proceedings
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2000)Given recent public and professional concern in relation to the levels of child victimisation and recent reforms of the evidentiary rules and legal procedures pertaining to children's evidence, there is an increasing ... -
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 ... -
Attachment at the transition to adolescence : concordance with concurrent maternal attachment and child's own attachment in infancy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2000)The study investigated three main sets of research questions derived from attachment theory developed by John Bowlby (1969/1982b, 1973, 1979, 1980, 1988) and Mary Ainsworth (1967, 1982; Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters, & Wall, ...
