US Partnership: Developing research on cognitive and emotional system interactions in older human adults
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Birmingham
Department Name: School of Psychology
Abstract
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People |
ORCID iD |
| Jane Raymond (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Burrola M
(2015)
Gains and Losses: Is Figure Ground Perception Influenced by Motivation or Learned Value?
in Journal of Vision
Kerlin J
(2014)
Entraining or Awakening: Perceptual Consequences of Visual Stimulation
in Journal of Vision
Miller CE
(2015)
Electrophysiological measurement of the effect of inter-stimulus competition on early cortical stages of human vision.
in NeuroImage
Raymond J
(2014)
Irrelevant Spatial Value Learning Modulates Visual Search
in Journal of Vision
Sawaki R
(2015)
How Attention Changes in Response to Incentives.
in Journal of cognitive neuroscience
Sawaki R
(2014)
Emotional faces in visual working memory are not easily forgotten: Distractor effects on memory-guided visual search
in Journal of Vision
Shapiro KL
(2017)
Alpha, beta: The rhythm of the attentional blink.
in Psychonomic bulletin & review
Stankevich B
(2015)
The modulation of reward priority by top-down knowledge
in Visual Cognition
Thomas PM
(2014)
A threatening face in the crowd: effects of emotional singletons on visual working memory.
in Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance
Van Diepen RM
(2016)
The Role of Alpha Activity in Spatial and Feature-Based Attention.
in eNeuro
| Description | The project has helped two groups at different universities (University of Birmingham and the University of California at Davis) develop joint ideas for further grant funding on the question of how cognition changes as we age. One joint project is directed at understanding how attention gets distracted by motivationally salient objects (a USA grant in a second stage of submission) and another examines a whole range of decision making processes in people in middle age (an ESRC funded project). A third project stemming from this travel grant has been funded by the Chinese Government and involves researchers from Canada and the UK that will examine cognitive and EEG function in older adults with and without cognitive training. The project has also led to a collaboration between Davis and Birmingham researches discovering that EEG patterns in patients with mild cognitive impairment can be used to predict the likelihood of onset of Alzheimer's disease later. Yet another group has focused on language and communcation across the lifespan. |
| Exploitation Route | The project produced new ideas and skill sets. Thus, the academics involved and their students at all levels have benefitted. The early career members of the group benefitted by widening their networks and skill sets. A number of grants have been applied for and although not all have been successful yet, the project has generated new ideas and approaches that hopefully will eventually result in funded research programmes. The successful grants that have come out of this collaboration will have additional beneficiaries, specific to each project. |
| Sectors | Creative Economy,Healthcare |
| Description | The main impact of this project has been to develop and deepen the collaborative partnership between UC Davis and U of Birmingham. Staff from each organisation have spent time in the other's organisation, joint grant proposals have been developed with two has successfully awarded. One of these projects is applied in nature helping industry on an international basis. Joint publications have been achieved. In addition, skills have been exchanged in ways that have benefited PhD students and post docs on both sides. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2014 |
| Sector | Security and Diplomacy,Other |
| Impact Types | Societal |
| Description | China Birmingham funding |
| Amount | £200,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Government of China |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | China |
| Start | 04/2016 |
| End | 05/2020 |
| Description | ESRC STANDARD GRANT |
| Amount | £279,285 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2015 |
| End | 04/2018 |
| Description | ESRC Transformative Grant |
| Amount | £244,914 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/M001761/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2014 |
| End | 02/2016 |
| Description | Act Your Age Pub Quiz, University of Birmingham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | As part of the University of Birmingham's Arts and Science Festival, OWL researchers hosted an arts and science themed pub quiz at the Bratby Bar at the University of Birmingham. Attendees were challenged with tough quiz questions and learned about how ageing affects different cognitive functions through the lifespan. The event attracted about 10 attendees, aged between 25 and 50. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | An invited keynote to the primo international conference on banknote design |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A keynote address entitled: "Banknote Security: What do the public really look at?" This talk presented theory and methods about human eye movements and cognition and their application to understanding how the general public authenticate banknotes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.banknotedesignersconference.com/4/1.html |
| Description | Art & Science Public Lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A series of lecture on how to interpret fine art paintings on display at the Barber Institute for Fine Arts using ideas and knowledge from Cognitive Neuroscience. The talks present basic concept and methods from Cognitive Neuroscience to members of the general Public and help them see fine art in a new way. The audience then engage in a active gallery tour. They report seeing and enjoying art in an new way and gaining understanding of brain science. Events have been "sold" out and last year a repeat performance was engaged. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
| URL | http://barber.org.uk/arts-science-festival-evening-lecture/ |
| Description | Banknote design |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Helped to develop an industry white paper (with a team of industry experts) for the International Association of Banknote Designers. Also gave a presentation at the their annual conference and have met with industry leaders to explain the importance of perception and cognitive science to them. An increase in enquiries from Banknote industry specialists; from Central Bank; an invitation to speak at the leading industry conference next year. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013,2014 |
| Description | Colloquia presentation "Orthographic and phonological overlap effects in sentence processing" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A research presentation to labs, teaching staff, post grad and undergrads at UC Davis |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Currency Design |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Delivered Keynote address at the Currency Conference, a primo international conference attended by banknotes industry leaders and key figures in Central Banks from countries around the world. The keynotes concerned cognition, motivation and attention and how cognitive neuroscience is important for understanding counterfeit detection. The talk promoted the importance of a scientific empirical approach to banknote information choices. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.currencyconference.com/featured-presentations-and-presenters |
| Description | Emotional faces demo |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Lots of questions and interest in visual cognition increase in undergraduate interest in visual cognition |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012,2013,2014 |
| Description | ThinksWeDon'tKnow |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The project was highlighted on the Things We Don't Know website |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://blog.thingswedontknow.com/2015/07/midlife-matters.html |