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Executive function in relation to suicidal thinking (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Ong, E., Eachus, P., Tang, A., & Thompson, C. (2016, February). Executive function in relation to suicidal thinking. Presented at th Annual International Conference on Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology (CBP 2016), Singapore

Suicidal behaviour is a public health problem and there is increasing concern regarding the rise of such behaviour. Although past studies have identified the role of cognitive factors in suicide, little has been done to explore the cognitive processe... Read More about Executive function in relation to suicidal thinking.

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..

The negative influence of mindwandering on visual search behaviour (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Bower, C., & Thompson, C. (2014, September). The negative influence of mindwandering on visual search behaviour. Presented at British Psychological Society Cognitive Section Meeting, Nottingham, UK

The effective allocation of attention and visual search is critical in many real-world tasks and there are several factors that influence the distribution of resources. These range from positive influences (e.g. top-down search that is guided on the... Read More about The negative influence of mindwandering on visual search behaviour.

Attention restoration reduces change blindness (except for those who feel sad) (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Thompson, C., & Bendall, R. (2014, September). Attention restoration reduces change blindness (except for those who feel sad). Poster presented at British Psychological Society Cognitive Section Meeting, Nottingham, UK

Attention Restoration Theory (Kaplan, 1995; Kaplan & Berman, 2010) proposes that natural surroundings “restore” attentional resources, in comparison to urban surroundings. This is due to increased bottom-up processing in natural environments (relativ... Read More about Attention restoration reduces change blindness (except for those who feel sad).

The transference of visual scanning behaviour between two unrelated tasks : Measuring the characteristics of carry-over (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Thompson, C., Howting, L., & Hills, P. (2013, August). The transference of visual scanning behaviour between two unrelated tasks : Measuring the characteristics of carry-over. Presented at 18th Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Budapest, Hungary

Task performance is influenced by the allocation of visual attention, and models of scanning behaviour have attempted to predict search (and performance) by accounting for top-down and bottom-up processes. Although such models acknowledge an addition... Read More about The transference of visual scanning behaviour between two unrelated tasks : Measuring the characteristics of carry-over.

Carryover of eye-movements in natural scenes is influenced by a preceding unrelated visual task : Individual differences and practical implications (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Hills, P., Thompson, C., Painter, L., & Pake, J. (2012, August). Carryover of eye-movements in natural scenes is influenced by a preceding unrelated visual task : Individual differences and practical implications. Presented at British Psychological Society Cognitive Psychology Section, Glasgow, UK

Thompson and Crundall (2011) reported an effect whereby eye-movements from one task (counting vowels in letter strings) carried over to a secondary unrelated task (rating the hazard of a driving scene). Two experiments are reported here that extend t... Read More about Carryover of eye-movements in natural scenes is influenced by a preceding unrelated visual task : Individual differences and practical implications.

Scanning behaviour of natural images is influenced by a preceding unrelated visual search task (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Thompson, C., & Crundall, D. (2010, July). Scanning behaviour of natural images is influenced by a preceding unrelated visual search task. Presented at Meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society, Manchester, UK

Allocation of visual attention in a natural scene is controlled by the bottom-up influences in the scene and by the top-down task demands. Models of visual search attempt to predict the eye movements made to natural scenes by accounting for these inf... Read More about Scanning behaviour of natural images is influenced by a preceding unrelated visual search task.

The transference of eye movement strategy between two unrelated visual search tasks (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Thompson, C., & Crundall, D. (2009, August). The transference of eye movement strategy between two unrelated visual search tasks. Presented at 15th European Conference on Eye Movements, Southampton, UK

Three experiments were conducted to investigate the carry-over of a location-based attentional set from a low-level visual search task to a search of natural images, using eye movements as the dependent measure. In each trial participants searched th... Read More about The transference of eye movement strategy between two unrelated visual search tasks.

Scanning behaviour of road images is influenced by a preceding unrelated visual search task (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Thompson, C., & Crundall, D. (2008, August). Scanning behaviour of road images is influenced by a preceding unrelated visual search task. Presented at 4th International Conference on Traffic and Transport Psychology, Washington DC, USA

Research suggests that the allocation of attention whilst driving is influenced by the top-down attentional set of the driver, such that potential hazards may only capture attention if they match the attentional control settings. The current study ai... Read More about Scanning behaviour of road images is influenced by a preceding unrelated visual search task.

The influence of visual search upon subsequent change detection (2007)
Presentation / Conference
Thompson, C., & Crundall, D. (2007, July). The influence of visual search upon subsequent change detection. Poster presented at Joint Meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society and the Psychonomic Society, Edinburgh, UK

The top-down allocation of attention is based on the goals of the observer, however there is an argument that attention may also be affected by implicit processes. Two experiments paired a visual search task with a change detection task to evaluate t... Read More about The influence of visual search upon subsequent change detection.

The relationship between driving experience and performance in a braking detection task (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Thompson, C., Underwood, G., & Crundall, D. (2006, July). The relationship between driving experience and performance in a braking detection task. Presented at 26th International Congress of Applied Psychology, Athens, Greece

Novice drivers have more accidents compared to experienced drivers. One aim of driving research is to develop a diagnostic test which correlates with driving ability. The current study attempts to distinguish between drivers of varying levels of skil... Read More about The relationship between driving experience and performance in a braking detection task.

Variations in bilingual processing of positive and negative information
Presentation / Conference
Ong, E., Hussain, S., Chow, Y., & Thompson, C. Variations in bilingual processing of positive and negative information. Presented at 6th Annual International Conference on Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology, Singapore

Past research suggests that the emotional content of words has greater impact when presented in a bilingual's first language (L1) compared to their second language (L2). This is predicted to be a consequence of automatic processing of emotional words... Read More about Variations in bilingual processing of positive and negative information.

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.

The importance of top-down control in attentional inertia
Presentation / Conference
Thompson, C., Pasquini, A., & Hills, P. The importance of top-down control in attentional inertia. Presented at Experimental Psychology Society July 2015 Meeting, Lincoln, UK

Recent work shows that attention and visual search in one task can be influenced by the demands of a previous, unrelated task (e.g., Longman, Lavric, & Monsell, 2013; Thompson & Crundall, 2011; Thompson, Howting, & Hills, 2015). The current study inv... Read More about The importance of top-down control in attentional inertia.

Suicide ideation is predicted by deficits in executive function
Presentation / Conference
Ong, E., Eachus, P., Tang, A., & Thompson, C. Suicide ideation is predicted by deficits in executive function. Poster presented at The European Conference on Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences, Brighton, UK

Suicidal behaviour has become a public health problem with increasing concerns regarding the rise of such behaviour among adolescents and young adults (Dour, Cha & Nock, 2011). Although past studies have identified the role of cognitive factors in su... Read More about Suicide ideation is predicted by deficits in executive function.