Cognition in the Real World

Dr Alastair D. Smith is an Associate Professor (Reader) in the School of Psychology at the University of Plymouth. He received a BSc in Psychology from the University of Birmingham, and a PhD from the University of Bristol, where he then worked as a Research Fellow. He took up a lectureship at the University of Nottingham in 2008, and moved to his current role in 2017. Dr Smith runs the Spatial Behaviour Laboratory at Plymouth and is also a Lab Head in the Brain Research and Imaging Centre (BRIC). His work focuses on the cognitive and neural foundations of human spatial abilities and he has published research on typical and atypical function using a variety of empirical methods.

1: Alastair D. Smith: Introduction
Part 1: Perception and Attention2: Alastair D. Smith: Perception and Attention: Introduction
3: Tom Foulsham: Looking behaviour in real-world search
4: Harriet Allen: Attention and driving
5: Markus Bindemann and Matthew C. Fysh: Person identification at passport control: Matching of unfamiliar faces
6: Elizabeth Sheppard: Cultural differences in visual cognition
7: Alastair D. Smith: Perception and Attention: Summary
Part 2: Movement and Action8: Alastair D. Smith: Movement and Action: Introduction
9: Alastair D. Smith: Making my mark: Using drawing behaviour to understand cognitive impairment
10: Lauren Marsh: The Principles of People Watching: Understanding the actions and intentions of others
11: Alastair D. Smith: Finding your way: Navigation and the acquisition of spatial knowledge
12: Alastair D. Smith: Movement and Action: Summary
Part 3: Memory and Emotion13: Memory and Emotion: Introduction Alastair D. Smith
14: Kate Bailey and Peter Chapman: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Memory for Emotional Experiences
15: Chris J. A. Moulin: Been there, done that: A cognitive account of déjà vu
16: Catherine Loveday: Prokofiev makes me productive: Examining the possibility of music as a cognitive enhancer
17: Alastair D. Smith: Memory and Emotion: Summary
Part 4: Speech and Language18: Alastair D. Smith: Speech and Language: Introduction
19: Anne Cutler, Janise Farrell, and Laurence Bruggeman: Passing the time of day: The cognition of chatting
20: Ruth Filik: Are you being serious? Detection of irony and sarcasm in language
21: Walter van Heuven: Learning an additional language: Consequences for language and cognitive processes
22: Alastair D. Smith: Speech and Language: Summary
Part 5: Learning and Decision-Making
23: Alastair D. Smith: Learning and Decision-Making: Introduction
24: Mark Haselgrove and Nicola Byrom: Associative learning and personality
25: Fenja Ziegler: Making choices for others: The psychology of surrogate decision-making
26: Richard J. Tunney: The psychology of financial crises: How biases in individual decision-making affect the efficiency of markets
27: Alastair D. Smith: Learning and Decision-Making: Summary
Part 6: Commentary
28: Vicki Bruce: Cognition in time and place