Learning, memory and thinking

Overview

Researchers in this group carry out innovative and internationally acknowledged research on issues regarding the acquisition, storage, retrieval and utilisation of information by the human cognitive system.

Four main areas of work are currently active among group members:

• Cognition and emotion
• Ageing and cognition
• Working memory: mechanisms and roles
• Everyday cognition

Recent work has cast new light on depressive realism in contingency learning, examining the effect of aging on autobiographical memory and problem-solving ability, and investigated medical decision making and errorless learning.

Research areas

Follow the links to find out more information about our specific research areas.

• Ageing, cognition and problem solving
• Computational modelling of serial memory
• Immediate serial recall and the word-length effect
• Cognitive and behavioural effects of thought suppression
• Involuntary and voluntary autobiographical memory
• Cognitive, developmental and neuropsychological aspects of prospective memory, flashbulb memories and 'mind-pops'
• Learning, cognition and depression 

Other useful research groups

• Applied and Practice-based Research
• Development and Language
• Neuropsychology and Behavioural Neuroscience