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Effects of pro-social motives and reward on children's prospective memory and inhibitory control
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-03-22)Prospective memory (PM) refers to the ability to remember to perform an intended action in the future whereas inhibitory control (IC) is defined as the capacity to stop a prepotent or automatic response in favour of a more ... -
Pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours: the role of individual differences
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)The work within this dissertation primarily focused on what types of people do (not) care or act pro-environmentally and examined potential mechanisms for promoting pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours. Chapter 1 ... -
Moral foundations conflict task: measuring intuitive conflict between moral foundations using a novel task
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)This thesis represents a body of work to validate the Moral Foundations Conflict Task (MFCT), a novel measure that aims to probe directly at intuitive conflict between moral foundations. Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) ... -
Working memory binding: insights from neuroimaging, behavioural and clinical studies
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-09-28)Working memory binding (WMB) entails the integration of multiple sources of information to form and temporarily store coherent object representations (or conjunctions). To date, cognitive research on binding has mostly ... -
Immersive virtual reality methods in cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology: the Virtual Reality Everyday Assessment Lab (VR-EAL).an immersive neuropsychological test battery of everyday cognitive functions
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-12)In cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology, the collection of cognitive and behavioural data is predominantly achieved by implementing paper-and-pencil and computerized (i.e., 2D and 3D applications) assessments. ... -
Numerical distinct attributes in Spinoza's Substance Monism
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Role of object semantics in guiding overt attention of younger and older adults, and AD patients
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-01-08)For decades, vision research has investigated the influence of object semantic information on visual attention by examining eye movements. However, it has provided contrasting evidence about the extent to which object ... -
Linguistic systematicity between phonology, semantics, and orthography in English and Korean
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Language is a complex system with multiple hierarchical subsystems. The current thesis investigates the relation between sub-domains of language: phonology, semantics, and orthography. The dissertation consists of two ... -
Bilingualism meets autism: an investigation of executive functions profiles in English-Arabic children
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Autism is described as a lifelong neurodevelopmental spectrum condition, with each individual varying in their abilities across social and cognitive domains. The current prevalence estimates range between 1/100 and 1/132 ... -
Effects of language learning and bilingualism on executive functions: influence of exposure, experience and linguistic distance
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)The debate as to whether bilingual experience benefits individuals in terms of certain aspects of executive function has received much attention. The differences on cognitive performance between monolinguals and ... -
Virtually in love: the role of romantic anthropomorphism in the digital age
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Introduction: Romantic relationships are a cornerstone of human nature. Today, the needs and benefits of romantic relationships have the potential to be fulfilled by virtual agents (VAs). Although previous psychological ... -
Effects of similarity on speakers’ production of referring expressions
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)When people talk, they often wish to refer to a discourse entity that has been previously mentioned. Nevertheless, they often have several choices about how to do so. This thesis aims to understand the choice of referring ... -
The Effect of Semantic Constraint on Lexical Access in Bilingual Word Recognition
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-10-13)The current study investigated how a constraining sentence context affects processing times in second language (L2) word identification. We used eye-tracking to look at whether the cognate facilitation effect, a cue of ... -
Understanding autonomous behaviours in children: an investigation of self-directed cognitive control development
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)Gaining autonomy is a key aspect of growing up. However, little is known about how children engage cognitive control in an autonomous (or self-directed) fashion to achieve goals. The aim of this dissertation is to better ... -
How can we help children to learn?
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)This thesis began with a question: How can we help children to learn? I examined this question by testing four distinct factors proposed to influence learning: number awareness, mindset, stereotyping and conscientiousn ... -
Processing of novel grammatical features during real-time second language production and comprehension
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)Second language (L2) learners often have difficulties acquiring grammatical features which do not exist in their first language (e.g. inflectional morphology, number agreement etc.), and exhibit real-time production and ... -
In the face of consciousness: how emotion, orientation, and gaze modulate face perception
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-21)Human faces convey essential information for social behaviour, such as information about others’ mental states and intentions. Crucially, many studies have claimed that several facial features such as configural facial ... -
Not all synaesthetes are the same: cognitive and personality differences in different types of synaesthetes
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-20)Synaesthesia is a perceptual condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic and involuntary experiences in a secondary sensory or cognitive pathway (e.g. seeing music or tasting words). ... -
Comparative lower-order hierarchical personality structure and personality development in nonhuman great apes
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-26)The aim of this thesis is to identify the structure of personality below the factor level in chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, gorillas in terms of both facets and items and to investigate the development of these lower-order ... -
Critical evaluation of interference-based accounts of forgetting via studies of minimal interference
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-26)There is a growing consensus that the forgetting of information from long-term memory occurs as a result of interference. Interference is experienced when the encountering of extraneous stimuli impedes the retention and ...
