Cognitive Neuropsychology

Overview

Research in this group focuses on topical areas of interest, including the cognitive neuropsychology and brain pathology of major disorders including:

• schizophrenia
• Alzheimer’s disease
• addictions
• Parkinson’s disease
• psychological and neuroanatomical basis of bodily self-consciousness

Researchers use specialised techniques, such as experimental and psychometric assessment of brain-damaged patients and healthy individuals, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, neural interventions in animals, and neural network modelling in collaboration with the School of Computer Science.

Joint research is being conducted with groups in Cambridge, Oxford, Nottingham, and other international researchers.

Our research areas include:

• Perception and action behaviour
• Visual and semantic processing in dementia
• Cognition in schizophrenia
• Animal models of Parkinson's disease
• Neurochemistry and adaptive behaviour
• Consciousness, attention and space

Other research groups

• Applied and practice-based research
• Development and language
• Learning, memory and thinking