Dr Paul Skarratt
| Biography | Dr Skarratt joined the department in 2007, having previously held postdoctoral research positions in Durham and Hull. His principal research interests concern aspects of human and non-human vision, focusing on the processes underlying selective attention and visual search. He is also interested in how these processes operate during joint action between two or more people. |
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| Research Interests | Visual and auditory selective attention; visual search; social cognition and joint action; decision-making. |
| Teaching and Learning | Level 4 Cognition and Development 1 Level 6 Understanding Animal Minds Level 6 Research Projects Levels 4-6 Personal Supervision |
| Scopus Author ID | 14828398000 |
| PhD Supervision Availability | Yes |
| PhD Topics | Dr Skarratt welcomes applications to study any aspect of visual and auditory attention, as well as how these processes mediate social cognition, and executive functions such as decision-making. Current PhD supervision: Tom Peney: The effect of virtual immersion on human educational development (commencing September 2021). Completed PhDs: Khia Dobbinson: The oddity effect: Applying principles of human psychology to an ecological question. (2019). Alex Spence: Investigating the modulation of cognition and event-related potentials relating to visual attention, working memory, and executive control in habitual videogame players. (2016). |