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Linguistic and non-linguistic factors influencing attentional control performance in bilinguals and monolinguals in Singapore and Edinburgh
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-02)The suggestion that bilinguals show enhanced cognitive control compared to monolinguals in certain aspects of executive function has received much contention. While this has been explained as a result of the extensive ... -
Exploring the explorers: studying the mood, mental health, cognition and the lived experience of extreme environments in a small isolated team confined to an Arctic research station
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-02)Background: The human ability to adapt to extreme environments is fascinating. Research into this adaptation has been lacking in Arctic isolated teams because it has concentrated on Antarctic teams. The hazards of ... -
Exploring a possible tonal loop in musicians and non-musicians and the relationship between musical expertise and cognitive ageing
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-02)This thesis explored two main research questions, firstly investigating whether musical expertise offers a performance advantage in working memory for sequences of tones that vary in pitch, and secondly whether any ... -
Belongingness in practice: a discursive psychological analysis of aid workers’ accounts of living and working in the field
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-02)The study described in this thesis represents one of the first attempts to explore belongingness as a practice among aid workers, and to contribute to our understanding of how people account for belonging in situ. In ... -
Chimpanzee personality and its relations with cognition and health: a comparative perspective
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-02)This thesis aimed to address two main questions. First, considering that personality is frequently associated with cognitive abilities in humans, do chimpanzees’ personalities and cognitive capacities covary in ways ... -
Study of distinct behavioural and cognitive correlates in favour of differentiating dominance, prestige, and leadership components in the explicit power motive
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-02)This work represents a theoretical and empirical study of distinct subcomponents of the explicit power motive (broadly defined as conscious desires to attain control and prestige) matching distinctions between social ... -
Investigating human-human and human-computer collaborative learning and memory in healthy ageing: the role of collaborator identity and social cognition
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-12-01)Learning and memory abilities decline with age; however collaborative learning with a familiar partner has been found to improve older adults’ performance on memory tasks and reduce these age-related differences. However ... -
Effect of cognitive state on the consolidation of basic and complex memories
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-06-28)Recent research demonstrates that new verbal memories are retained better if learning is followed by a brief period of wakeful rest. This effect is hypothesised to be the result of wakeful rest providing a state that is ... -
Investigating the short term memory visual binding impairment in Alzheimer’s Disease
(The University of Edinburgh, 2015-11-26)Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) demonstrate a sensitive and specific short-term memory impairment for visual bindings (e.g. the combination of shapes and colours) that is absent in healthy ageing (Parra et al., ... -
Multidimensional apathy in neurodegenerative disease
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-28)Apathy is characterised by a lack of motivation towards goal directed behaviour and is a symptom of various neurodegenerative diseases. There are various tools that can be used to assess apathy but a caveat of these is ... -
Perception of emotions in small ruminants
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-12-01)Animals are sentient beings, capable of experiencing emotions. Being able to assess emotional states in farm animals is crucial to improving their welfare. Although the function of emotion is not primarily for communication, ... -
What limits dual-tasking in working memory? An investigation of the effect of sub-task demand on maintenance mechanisms employed during dual-tasking
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-28)A number of models of working memory have been proposed since the seminal work of Baddeley and Hitch (1974) on the Multiple Component Model (MCM). Subsequent MCM research focussed on developing a theoretical framework ... -
Influence of personality on primate health, welfare, and happiness
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-12-01)Is personality important for understanding the variation we see in animal welfare? In this thesis, I address that question by studying the association between personality and health, welfare, and happiness in three species ... -
Visual perception of Chinese orthography: from characters to sentences
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-12-01)There are different aims in this thesis. The primary aim is to investigate visual perception in Chinese orthography, from its fundamentally distinct unit, characters, to sentence reading. The first aim of the thesis is ... -
Self-monitoring in stroke patients and healthy individuals: predictive factors and methodological challenges
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-03)The phenomenon whereby people suffering from an illness or disability seem to be unaware of their symptoms was termed anosognosia, by Joseph Babinksi in 1914 (Langer & Levine, 2014). Originally described as a specific ... -
Improving longer-term memory via wakeful rest in health and amnesia: evidence for memory consolidation
(The University of Edinburgh, 2015-06-30)A short wakeful rest immediately after new learning boosts verbal memory retention over several minutes. This memory boost is observed both in healthy people and in patients with amnesia, including patients with amnestic ... -
Do bilinguals have a cognitive advantage? Examining effects of bilingualism and language use on executive control
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-03)The daily practice of bilingual language control has been argued to affect both lexical processing and non-verbal executive control in bilingual speakers. On the one hand, bilingualism may slow down lexical processing ... -
Attachment to Nature: the Roots of Environmentalism
(The University of Edinburgh, 2003)Attitudes to nature vary between individuals, between cultures and over history. Human behaviour towards nature varies similarly and crudely can be characterised as ‘abusive’, ‘indifferent’ or ‘caring’. Attitudes in ... -
The awareness and flexibility conjecture of emotional intelligence
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Social cognitive causes of aggression for adults with an intellectual disability
(The University of Edinburgh, 2005)
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