Research Summary

The memory, attention and spatial cognition research group builds on current expertise and potential for collaboration in research into neuropsychological and electrophysiological aspects of spatial learning, memory and attention, including comparative and developmental approaches. In particular the group will aim to facilitate the publication of research in high impact outlets and the successful bid for grants in the research areas listed above.

Research themes

Researchers   

• Full list of publications from this group since 2000
• Full list of conference presentations from this group since 2006

Recent research grants

Baguley T and Lansdale M. (2008) 'Spatial Cognition and Learning: Understanding Obstacles and Opportunities in the Integration of Information from Multiple images' ESRC £261,881

Barrett D. (2009) 'Assessing the locus of cross-modal selective attention: independent or superadditive effects?' Nuffield Foundation

Barrett D. (2008) 'Bottom-up and Top-down Attentional Bias in Object Recognition.' Nuffield Foundation

Barrett D, Hall D, Archer J and Edmonson-Jones M. (2006) Deafness UK, 'Selective attention to auditory spatial and non-spatial attributes' (with Dr Deb Hall, Jo Archer and Mark Edmonson-Jones at the Medical Research Council’s Institute of Hearing Research). Deafness UK

De Lillo C. (2011) Spatial working memory for clustered sites in a Virtual Reality based search task (Nuffield Foundation). 2011

De Lillo C. et al. (2008-2011) Spatial and motor cognition in virtual reality, computer generated and other realistic environments. Capital Investment Fund (CIF). 2008-2011.

De Lillo C. (2008-2011) Determinants of global and local visual processing advantage in humans and capuchins (Leverhulme Trust)

De Lillo C. (2006) Executive functions and hierarchical organisation in short-term memory for spatial locations. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), 2005-06.

De Lillo C. (2006) Contrasting hierarchical coding and movement length as determinants of recall improvement in serial spatial memory. (Nuffield Foundation). 2006

De Lillo C. (2006) Schizotypy and the encoding of structure in spatial working memory: are individual differences mediated by executive functions and perceptual grouping skills? (Wellcome Trust).

Garland KJ. (2006) The effects of processing cues and inherent processing bias on recognition memory performance, Nuffield Foundation, £7,000.

Lansdale M. (2006) Exploiting Spatial Cognition in Picture Database Design: EPSRC Grant EP/E006876/01 £356,696 (current - started October 2006)

Selected recent research papers

Ashton, R & De Lillo, C. (2011). Association, inhibition and object permanence in dogs' (Canis familiaris) spatial search. Journal of Comparative Psychology. 125(2): 194-206.

Baguley TS, Lansdale MW, Lines L and Parkin J. (2006) Are two spatial recalls better than one? Exclusivity of memory for object location. Cognitive Psychology 52 pp 243-289, 2006.

Barrett DJK, Edmondson-Jones AM and Hall DA. (2009) Attention in neglect and extinction: Assessing the degree of correspondence between visual and auditory impairments using matched tasks. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology (in press).

Barrett DJK and Hall DA. (2006) Response preferences for ‘what’ and ‘where’ in human non-primary auditory cortex. NeuroImage, 32: 968-977.

De Lillo, C. Palumbo, M., Spinozzi, G. & Giustino, G. (2012). Effects of pattern redundancy and hierarchical grouping on global-local visual processing in monkeys (Cebus apella) and humans (Homo sapiens). Behavioural Brain Research, 226: 445-455.

De Lillo, C. Spinozzi, G., Palumbo, M. & Giustino, G. (2011). Attention allocation modulates the processing of hierarchical visual patterns: a comparative analysis of capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) and humans. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes. 37(3): 341-352.

De Lillo C and Lesk V (2009). Spatial clustering and hierarchical coding in immediate serial recall. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology. DOI:10.1080/09541440902757918

De Lillo C, Spinozzi G and Truppa V. (2007). Pattern recognition in tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella): the role of the spatial organisation of stimulus parts. Behavioural Brain Research, 181: 96-109.

Duke PA, Oruç I, Qi H and Backus BT. (2006). Depth aftereffects mediated by vertical disparities: Evidence for vertical disparity driven calibration of extraretinal signals during stereopsis. Vision Research. 46. 228-241.

Fagot, J. & De Lillo, C. (2011). A comparative study of working memory: immediate serial recall in baboons (Papio papio) and humans. Neuropsychologia. 49: 3870-3880.

Fuggetta G, Lanfranchi S and Campana G. (2009). Attention has memory: priming for the size of the attentional focus. Spatial Vision 22(2):147-59. ISSN 0169-1015.

Fuggetta G, Pavone EF, Fiaschi A and Manganotti P. (2008). Acute modulation of cortical oscillatory activities during short trains of high-frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of the Human Motor Cortex: A combined EEG and TMS study. Human Brain Mapping 29(1), 1-13. ISSN: 1065-9471

Fuggetta G, Campana G and Casco C. (2007). The principle of good continuation in space and time can guide visual search in absence of priming or contextual cueing. Visual Cognition 15(7), 834-853. ISSN: 1350-6285

Fuggetta G. (2006). Impairment of executive functions in boys with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder Child Neuropsychology 12(1), 1-21. ISSN: 0929-7049

Garland KJ and Noyes JM. (2008) Computer attitude scales: How relevant today? Computers in Human Behavior, 24(2), 563-575.

*Meneer T, Barrett DJK, Phillips L, Donnelly N and Cave KR. (2007) Costs in searching for two targets: dividing search across target types could improve airport security screening Applied Cognitive Psychology, 21(7): 915-932.

Noyes JM and Garland KJ. (2006). Comment on evaluating cognitive demand. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 102(1), 118-120.

Gillett R. (2007). Assessment of working memory performance in self-ordered selection tests. Cortex, 43, 1047-1056.

Noyes JM and Garland KJ. (2008). Computer- versus paper-based tasks: Are they equivalent? Ergonomics. 51 (9), 1352-1375.

Prados J, Sansa J and Artigas AA. (2008). Partial reinforcement effects on learning and extinction of place preferences in the water maze. Learning and Behavior,36, 311-318.

Prados J, Artigas AA and Sansa J. (2007). Preexposure effects in the spatial domain: Dissociation between latent inhibition and perceptual learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 33, 115-123.

Rushton SK and Duke PA. (2009). Observers cannot accurately estimate the speed of an approaching object in flight. Vision Research. 49 (15). 1919-1928.

Rushton SK and Duke PA. (2007). The use of direction and distance information in the perception of approach trajectory. Vision Research, 47. 899-912.

Schoonveld WA, Shimozaki SS and Eckstein MP. (2007). Optimal and suboptimal models of single fixation oddity search predict a shallow set size function. Journal of Vision, 7(10):1, 1-16, online version, doi:10.1167/7.10.1.

Shimozaki SS, Chen KC, Abbey CK and Eckstein MP. (2007). The temporal dynamics of selective attention of the visual periphery as measured by classification images. Journal of Vision, 7(12):10, 1-20, online version, doi:10.1167/7.12.10.

Shimozaki SS, Kingstone A, Olk B, Stowe R and Eckstein MP. (2006). Classification images of two right hemisphere patients: A window into the attentional mechanisms of spatial neglect. Brain Research, 1080, 26-52.

Spinozzi G, De Lillo C, Truppa V and Castorina G. (2009). The Relative Use of Proximity, Shape Similarity and Orientation as Visual Perceptual Grouping Cues in Tufted Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella) and Humans (Homo sapiens). Journal of Comparative Psychology.123(1): 56-68.

Spinozzi G, De Lillo C and Salvi V. (2006). Local advantage in the visual processing of hierarchical stimuli following manipulations of stimulus size and element numerosity in monkeys (Cebus apella). Behavioural Brain Research, 166: 45-54.

Conference presentations

Members of the research group regularly present papers, as either oral or poster communications at national and international conferences.  Some examples of recent conferences:

• British Psychological Society, Aberdeen, 2007
• British Psychological Society, Leicester, 2008; Southampton 2008
• British Society of Audiology, Cambridge, 2006
• Experimental Psychology Society, Edinburgh, 2007
• Experimental Psychology Society, Leicester, April 2009
• European Conference on Visual Perception, Utrecht, 2008; Regensberg, 2009
• Vision Science Society, Sarasota FL, USA, 2007; Naples, FL, USA, 2008, 2009