Cognitive Psychology Research Group

What We Do

The Cognitive Research Group is a collection of researchers at the University of Lincoln, who undertake research on a broad range of perceptual and higher cognitive functions by combining different methods such as eye tracking, electroencephalogram (EEG), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), physiological measurements (skin conductance response; heart rate variability) and functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS). Core research topics include Face perception (e.g., face recognition, face learning, social information conveyed in faces, and the use of automatic face recognition technology); Neural plasticity (e.g., neural changes after visual sensory deprivation and enriched environments); Technologies to improve perceptual functions and to support person-centred care in residential care (e.g., video games such as Eyelander and Cognitive Daisy); sleep (e.g., the role of REM sleep in directed forgetting of emotional words); human-dog emotion communication (e.g., to investigate emotional expression and perception in dogs, human-animal interaction); visual attention and process in human social cognition (e.g., how affective visual cues are processed in the brain).