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“Thanks for letting us all share your mammogram experience virtually” : developing an online hub for cancer screening (2017)
Journal Article

Background:
The decision around whether to attend breast screening can often involve making sense of confusing and contradictory information on risks and benefits. The Word of Mouth Mammogram e-Network (WoMMeN) project was established to create an... Read More about “Thanks for letting us all share your mammogram experience virtually” : developing an online hub for cancer screening.

Skill assessment in upper limb myoelectric prosthesis users : validation of a clinically feasible method for characterising upper limb temporal and amplitude variability during the performance of functional tasks (2017)
Journal Article

Upper limb myoelectric prostheses remain challenging to use and are often abandoned. A proficient user must be able to plan/execute arm movements while activating the residual muscle(s), accounting for delays and unpredictability in prosthesis respon... Read More about Skill assessment in upper limb myoelectric prosthesis users : validation of a clinically feasible method for characterising upper limb temporal and amplitude variability during the performance of functional tasks.

Visualisation of upper limb activity using spirals - a new approach to the assessment of daily prosthesis usage (2017)
Journal Article

BACKGROUND: Current outcome measures used in upper limb myoelectric prosthesis studies include clinical tests of function and self-report questionnaires on real world prosthesis use. Research in other cohorts has questioned both the validity of self-... Read More about Visualisation of upper limb activity using spirals - a new approach to the assessment of daily prosthesis usage.

The reality of myoelectric prostheses : understanding what makes these devices difficult for some users to control (2016)
Journal Article

Users of myoelectric prostheses can often find them difficult to control. This can lead to passive-use of the device or total rejection, which can have detrimental effects on the contralateral limb due to overuse.
Current clinically available prosth... Read More about The reality of myoelectric prostheses : understanding what makes these devices difficult for some users to control.

Towards a Theoretical Framework for Understanding the Development of Media Related Needs (2016)
Journal Article
Galpin, A. (2016). Towards a Theoretical Framework for Understanding the Development of Media Related Needs. Journal of Children and Media, 10(3), 385-391. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2016.1194373

The question of why people select and prefer particular media activities has led to the development of a number of ‘needs’ approaches to media use. Whilst some frameworks have been developed within the context of media use (e.g. uses and gratificatio... Read More about Towards a Theoretical Framework for Understanding the Development of Media Related Needs.

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

Visuomotor behaviours when using a myoelectric prosthesis (2014)
Journal Article
prosthesis. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 11(72), https://doi.org/10.1186/1743-0003-11-72

Background
A recent study showed that the gaze patterns of amputee users of myoelectric
prostheses differ markedly from those seen in anatomically intact subjects. Gaze
behaviour is a promising outcome measures for prosthesis designers, as it appe... Read More about Visuomotor behaviours when using a myoelectric prosthesis.

‘Being kinder to myself ’: a prospective comparative study, exploring post-trauma therapy outcome measures, for two groups of clients, receiving either Cognitive Behaviour Therapy or Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Compassionate Mind Training (2012)
Journal Article
Therapy and Compassionate Mind Training. Review - British Psychological Society. Counselling Psychology Section, 27(1), 31-43

Background/Aims/Objectives: This prospective, comparative outcome study was designed to contrast the
relative impact of differing therapeutic interventions for trauma victims, carried out by the same therapist.
Methods/Methodology: A non-random con... Read More about ‘Being kinder to myself ’: a prospective comparative study, exploring post-trauma therapy outcome measures, for two groups of clients, receiving either Cognitive Behaviour Therapy or Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Compassionate Mind Training.

Object affordance and spatial-compatibility effects in Parkinson’s disease (2011)
Journal Article
Parkinson’s disease. Cortex, 47(3), 332-341. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2010.01.011

Movement in Parkinson’s disease (PD) is strongly influenced by sensory stimuli. Here, we investigated two features of visual stimuli known to affect response times in healthy individuals; the spatial location of an object (the spatial effect) and its... Read More about Object affordance and spatial-compatibility effects in Parkinson’s disease.

An investigation of co-speech gesture production during action description in Parkinson’s disease (2011)
Journal Article
Cleary, R., Poliakoff, E., Galpin, A., Dick, J., & Holler, J. (2011). An investigation of co-speech gesture production during action description in Parkinson’s disease. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.parkreldis.2011.08.001

Introduction: Parkinson’s disease (PD) can impact enormously on speech communication. One aspect of
non-verbal behaviour closely tied to speech is co-speech gesture production. In healthy people,
co-speech gestures can add significant meaning and e... Read More about An investigation of co-speech gesture production during action description in Parkinson’s disease.

Exploring visuomotor priming following biological and non-biological stimuli (2010)
Journal Article
Gowen, E., Bradshaw, C., Galpin, A., & Lawrence, A. (2010). Exploring visuomotor priming following biological and non-biological stimuli. Brain and Cognition, 74(3), 288-297. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2010.08.010

Observation of human actions influences the observer’s own motor system, termed visuomotor priming, and is believed to be caused by automatic activation of mirror neurons. Evidence suggests that priming effects are larger for biological (human) as op... Read More about Exploring visuomotor priming following biological and non-biological stimuli.

Does Parkinson’s disease affect judgement about another person’s action? (2010)
Journal Article
person’s action?. Experimental Brain Research, 204(3), 327-331. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-009-1976-1

The observer’s motor system has been shown to be involved in observing the actions of another person. Recent findings suggest that people with Parkinson’s disease do not show the same motor facilitatory effects when observing the actions of another p... Read More about Does Parkinson’s disease affect judgement about another person’s action?.

Sensing without seeing in comparative visual search (2008)
Journal Article
Galpin, A., Underwood, G., & Chapman, P. (2008). Sensing without seeing in comparative visual search. Consciousness and Cognition, 17(3), 658-673. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2007.10.004

Rensink [Rensink, R. A. (2004). Visual sensing without seeing. Psychological Science, 15(1), 27–32] has presented evidence suggesting visual changes may be sensed without an accompanying visual experience. Here, we report two experiments in which we... Read More about Sensing without seeing in comparative visual search.

The effect of viewing graspable objects and actions in Parkinson's Disease (2007)
Journal Article
Poliakoff, E., Galpin, A., Dick, J., Moore, P., & Tipper, S. (2007). The effect of viewing graspable objects and actions in Parkinson's Disease. NeuroReport, 18(5), 483-487. https://doi.org/10.1097/WNR.0b013e32805867a1

Viewing action-relevant stimuli such as a graspable object or another person moving can affect the observer's own motor system. Evidence exists that external stimuli may facilitate or hinder movement in Parkinson's disease, so we investigated whether... Read More about The effect of viewing graspable objects and actions in Parkinson's Disease.

Object bias is mediated by the collinearity of targets (2007)
Journal Article
Crundall, D., Cole, G., & Galpin, A. (2007). Object bias is mediated by the collinearity of targets. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60(1), 137-153. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470210600654792

Same-object bias occurs when tasks associated with processing a single object are faster than tasks associated with two objects. Over five experiments we assessed whether same-object bias is mediated by the collinearity of the targets. Participants d... Read More about Object bias is mediated by the collinearity of targets.

Eye movements during search and detection in comparative visual search (2005)
Journal Article
Galpin, A., & Underwood, G. (2005). Eye movements during search and detection in comparative visual search. Perception & psychophysics (Online), 67(8), 1313-1331

Motivated by the fact that previous visual memory paradigms have imposed encoding and retrieval constraints, the present article presents two experiments that address how observers allocate eye movements in memory and comparison processes in the abse... Read More about Eye movements during search and detection in comparative visual search.

Eye fixation scanpaths of younger and older drivers in a hazard perception task (2005)
Journal Article
Underwood, G., Phelps, N., Wright, C., van Loon, E., & Galpin, A. (2005). Eye fixation scanpaths of younger and older drivers in a hazard perception task. Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 25(4), 346-356. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-1313.2005.00290.x

Our previous research has shown that observing patterns of eye fixations is a successful method of establishing differences in underlying cognitive processes between groups of drivers. Eye movements recorded from drivers in a laboratory while they wa... Read More about Eye fixation scanpaths of younger and older drivers in a hazard perception task.

Living with and beyond breast cancer : exploring women’s use of social media to support psychosocial health
Thesis
Ure, C. (in press). Living with and beyond breast cancer : exploring women’s use of social media to support psychosocial health. (Thesis). University of Salford

Background: Despite the extensive use of social media, its role in supporting women living with and beyond breast cancer (LwBBC), across the survivorship trajectory, remains underexplored. Existing research has tended to focus on single or dual platf... Read More about Living with and beyond breast cancer : exploring women’s use of social media to support psychosocial health.