Memory & Cognition Research Group

Group membership and research areas

• Professor Peter Ayton: Decision making and risk
• Professor James Hampton: Concepts and category representation; Metacognitive awareness of the limits of knowledge; Role of conceptual design of novel hybrid products
• Dr Marie Poirier: Memory
• Dr Lydia Tan: Memory
  

Activities

Research activities are organised round a weekly lab workshop involving all members of the Group, and including research assistants and graduate students. Members of the Group use these meetings to talk about their research plans, as well as current problems.
 
The activities of the Group have expanded considerably in recent years. Members have become involved in work with:

• the perception of food risk
• the dependability of software design (Ayton)
• the stability of category representations and conceptual combination (Hampton)
• the effect of perceptual factors, similarity, and cue overload on memory (Poirier).

Much of this work has also been supported by external grants. Members of the group in recent years have been principal investigators or co-applicants on some 15 different grants from the EPSRC, the ESRC, The British Academy, The Nuffield Foundation, The Fullbright Commission, The Wellcome Trust, MAFF, the High Security Psychiatric Services Commissioning Board and the Welsh Regional Development Board. Grant income won by the group over the last five years amounts to at least £1.75m.

International collaborations

These have been established with colleagues in Belgium, France, Israel, Portugal, Turkey, Canada and the USA.

Current research students

• Silvio Aldrovandi
• Kyriaki Koutmeridou
• James Fowler
• Emma Walsh
• Roberta Pischedda