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The influence of stimuli valence, extraversion, and emotion regulation on visual search within real-world scenes (2022)
Journal Article
Bendall, R., Eachus, P., & Thompson, C. (2022). The influence of stimuli valence, extraversion, and emotion regulation on visual search within real-world scenes. Scientific reports, 12, 948. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-04964-y

Affective traits, including extraversion and emotion regulation, are important considerations in clinical psychology due to their associations with the occurrence of affective disorders. Previously, emotional real-world scenes have been shown to infl... Read More about The influence of stimuli valence, extraversion, and emotion regulation on visual search within real-world scenes.

A cognitive style dataset including functional near-infrared spectroscopy, eye-tracking, psychometric and behavioral measures (2019)
Journal Article
Bendall, R., Lambert, S., Galpin, A., Marrow, L., & Cassidy, S. (2019). A cognitive style dataset including functional near-infrared spectroscopy, eye-tracking, psychometric and behavioral measures. Data in Brief, 26, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2019.104544

The dataset includes data from the triangulated investigation reported in our paper: ‘Psychophysiological indices of cognitive style: A triangulated study incorporating neuroimaging, eye-tracking, psychometric and behavioral measures’ [1,2]. The data... Read More about A cognitive style dataset including functional near-infrared spectroscopy, eye-tracking, psychometric and behavioral measures.

Positive and negative affect mediate the influences of a maladaptive emotion regulation strategy on sleep quality (2019)
Journal Article
Latif, I., Hughes, A., & Bendall, R. (2019). Positive and negative affect mediate the influences of a maladaptive emotion regulation strategy on sleep quality. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 10, 628. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00628

Positive affect, negative affect, and emotion regulation strategies are related to sleep quality. Emotion regulation can also act as either a protective factor against the development of psychopathologies, or as a risk factor for their development, a... Read More about Positive and negative affect mediate the influences of a maladaptive emotion regulation strategy on sleep quality.

Psychophysiological indices of cognitive style : a triangulated study incorporating neuroimaging, eye-tracking, psychometric and behavioral measures (2019)
Journal Article
Bendall, R., Lambert, S., Galpin, A., Marrow, L., & Cassidy, S. (2019). Psychophysiological indices of cognitive style : a triangulated study incorporating neuroimaging, eye-tracking, psychometric and behavioral measures. Personality and Individual Differences, 144, 68-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.02.034

Employing a triangulated design to explore psychophysiological indices of cognitive style, the study investigated the validity of the intuition-analysis dimension of cognitive style and its associated construct measure, the Cognitive Style Index (CSI... Read More about Psychophysiological indices of cognitive style : a triangulated study incorporating neuroimaging, eye-tracking, psychometric and behavioral measures.

Emotional real-world scenes impact visual search (2018)
Journal Article
Bendall, R., Mohamed, A., & Thompson, C. (2019). Emotional real-world scenes impact visual search. Cognitive processing, 20, 309-316. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-018-0898-x

Research shows that emotional stimuli can capture attention, and this can benefit or impair performance, depending on the characteristics of a task. Additionally, whilst some findings show that attention expands under positive conditions, others show... Read More about Emotional real-world scenes impact visual search.

The neural mechanisms able to predict future emotion regulation decisions (2017)
Journal Article
Bendall, R. (2017). The neural mechanisms able to predict future emotion regulation decisions. Journal of Neurophysiology, 118(3), 1824-1827. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00397.2017

Emotion regulation is crucial in maintaining healthy psychological wellbeing, and its dysregulation is often linked to a range of neuropsychiatric disorders including depression. The neurobiological underpinnings of cognitive reappraisal, an emotion... Read More about The neural mechanisms able to predict future emotion regulation decisions.

Positive emotion expands visual attention...Or maybe not... (2017)
Journal Article
Taylor, A., Bendall, R., & Thompson, C. (2017). Positive emotion expands visual attention...Or maybe not... ˜The œcognitive psychology bulletin (Print), 33-37

A considerable amount of research has investigated the effect of emotion on visual attention. One prominent model in the field is the broaden-and-build theory, which suggests positive emotions broaden the scope of attention. In addition, the theory p... Read More about Positive emotion expands visual attention...Or maybe not....

A brief review of research using near-infrared spectroscopy to measure activation of the prefrontal cortex during emotional processing : the importance of experimental design (2016)
Journal Article
Bendall, R., Eachus, P., & Thompson, C. (2016). A brief review of research using near-infrared spectroscopy to measure activation of the prefrontal cortex during emotional processing : the importance of experimental design. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10, https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00529

During the past two decades there has been a pronounced increase in the number of published research studies that have employed near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) to measure neural activation. The technique is now an accepted neuroimaging tool adopt... Read More about A brief review of research using near-infrared spectroscopy to measure activation of the prefrontal cortex during emotional processing : the importance of experimental design.

Emotion has no impact on attention in a change detection flicker task (2015)
Journal Article
Bendall, R., & Thompson, C. (2015). Emotion has no impact on attention in a change detection flicker task. Frontiers in Psychology, 6(1592), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01592

Past research provides conflicting findings regarding the influence of emotion on visual attention. Early studies suggested a broadening of attentional resources in relation to positive mood. However, more recent evidence indicates that positive emot... Read More about Emotion has no impact on attention in a change detection flicker task.

Cognitive style : a validation study using brain imaging and eye movements (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Lambert, S., Bendall, R., Galpin, A., Marrow, L., & Cassidy, S. (2015, September). Cognitive style : a validation study using brain imaging and eye movements. Poster presented at British Psychological Society Psychobiology Section Annual General Meeting, Windermere

Emotion affects prefrontal cortex activity during cognitive task performance: A change blindness functional near-infrared spectroscopy study. (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Bendall, R., & Thompson, C. (2014, September). Emotion affects prefrontal cortex activity during cognitive task performance: A change blindness functional near-infrared spectroscopy study. Poster presented at British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience Annual Scientific Meeting, York

Research is increasingly demonstrating that emotional processes interact with our cognitions and that the prefrontal cortex (PFC) is heavily involved during such tasks. Higher naturalistic negative mood is related to reduced PFC activity during wor... Read More about Emotion affects prefrontal cortex activity during cognitive task performance: A change blindness functional near-infrared spectroscopy study..

Emotion does not influence prefrontal cortex activity during a visual attention task. A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study
Presentation / Conference
Bendall, R., & Thompson, C. Emotion does not influence prefrontal cortex activity during a visual attention task. A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study. Presented at 5th Annual International Conference on Cognitive and Behavioural Psychology 2016, Singapore

Research shows that positive and negative emotion can influence a range of cognitive processes as well as hemodynamic prefrontal cortex (PFC) activity. This study sought to investigate if PFC activity was influenced by positive and negative stimuli d... Read More about Emotion does not influence prefrontal cortex activity during a visual attention task. A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study.