Lincoln School of Psychology News
Dr Frouke Hermens and Professor Timothy Hodgson were awarded a British Academy / Leverhulme small grant. The project will use new mobile eye tracking technology to investigate gaze coordination during social interactions in people with Parkinson’s. Earlier work has shown how eye movements in cognitive tasks are reduced in size (known as “amplitude hypometria”) in…
Dr Frouke Hermens was awarded a small grant from the EPS. The funded project will investigate what signage to best use to help people find objects. A mobile eye tracker will be used to determine people’s search strategies. If you would like to be involved as a participant, please get in touch at fhermens@lincoln.ac.uk or…
Dr Niko Kargas and Dr Simon Durrant have been awarded £5,500 from the British Academy Leverhulme small research grant scheme to investigate “The effects of acoustic attributes of a native language on auditory processing skills and non-native speech perception in native English and Mandarin Chinese speakers.” By integrating psychology and musicology this project aims to…
A study by Dr Kun Guo and colleagues published in the Royal Society journal ‘Biology Letters’ reveals that dogs can recognise human emotions. The paper has been selected as the Science Editor’s Choice and picked up by a number of press outlets. Read the full press release here
People use their smartphones for an average of five hours a day – about a third of the time they are awake – and check them about 85 times a day, new research suggests. Researchers from the University of Lincoln, UK, developed an app for an exploratory study, led by Nottingham Trent University, to compare…