Since joining the University of Lincoln as an undergraduate student, I’ve developed a passion for research, which I didn’t even consider prior to starting university. During the first year of my BSc Sport and Exercise Science degree, I started to attend the Sport and Exercise Psychology Journal Club, which was advertised through my first-year psychology…Continue Reading Engaging in research as an undergraduate student.
Category: Physical and Mental Well Being
Opening my Mind to Research – Sport and Exercise Psychology Journal Club
Upon first hearing about the School of Sport and Exercise Science’s Sport and Exercise Psychology Journal Club, as I went into my first year of the Sport and Exercise Science course, my initial reaction, to be brutally honest, was “Oh, no. Something else that I can get called a teacher’s pet for going to”. So,…Continue Reading Opening my Mind to Research – Sport and Exercise Psychology Journal Club
Police Wellbeing
Hannah Henderson, School of Sport and Exercise Science Trish Jackman, School of Sport and Exercise Science…Continue Reading Police Wellbeing
Cognitive Daisy
John Hudson, School of Psychology Petra Pollux, School of Psychology…Continue Reading Cognitive Daisy
Animal Welfare
Diane Ryland, Lincoln Law School …Continue Reading Animal Welfare
Perception of dynamic facial expressions of emotion between dogs and humans
Facial expressions are a core component of the emotional response of social mammals. In contrast to Darwin’s original proposition, expressive facial cues of emotion appear to have evolved to be species-specific. Faces trigger an automatic perceptual process, and so, inter-specific emotion perception is potentially a challenge; since observers should not try to “read” heterospecific facial…Continue Reading Perception of dynamic facial expressions of emotion between dogs and humans
Valence-dependent Disruption in Processing of Facial Expressions of Emotion in Early Visual Cortex—A Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Study
Our visual inputs are often entangled with affective meanings in natural vision, implying the existence of extensive interaction between visual and emotional processing. However, little is known about the neural mechanism underlying such interaction. This exploratory transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) study examined the possible involvement of the early visual cortex (EVC, Area V1/V2/V3) in perceiving…Continue Reading Valence-dependent Disruption in Processing of Facial Expressions of Emotion in Early Visual Cortex—A Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Study
Nonlinear transduction of emotional facial expression
To create neural representations of external stimuli, the brain performs a number of processing steps that transform its inputs. For fundamental attributes, such as stimulus contrast, this involves one or ore nonlinearities that are believed to optimise the neural code to represent features of the natural environment. Here we ask if the same is also…Continue Reading Nonlinear transduction of emotional facial expression
The effects of goal types on psychological outcomes in active and insufficiently active adults in a walking task: Further evidence for open goals
This study aimed to extend recent work on the effects of goal types in physical activity (PA; Swann, Hooper et al., 2020) by comparing the effects of SMART, open, and do-your-best (DYB) goals on performance and psychological responses in active and insufficiently active adults in a walking task. It is common…Continue Reading The effects of goal types on psychological outcomes in active and insufficiently active adults in a walking task: Further evidence for open goals