Nina Fisher
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Dr Nina Fisher

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  N.Fisher@napier.ac.uk

   

Biography

I completed my BSc(Hons) in Psychology at Edinburgh Napier University, I then went on to do a PhD in Cognitive/ Music Psychology at the University of St Andrews.
In 2017, I began a post-doctoral position at the Univeristy of Edinburgh working on a Leverhulme funded grant investigating turn-taking in language and in music.
I joined Edinburgh Napier in March 2020 as an associate lecturer.

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The effects of dual-task interference in predicting turn-ends in speech and music

Journal Article
Fisher, N. K., Hadley, L. V., Corps, R. E., & Pickering, M. J. (2021)
The effects of dual-task interference in predicting turn-ends in speech and music. Brain Research, 1768, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2021.147571
Determining when a partner’s spoken or musical turn will end requires well-honed predictive abilities. Evidence suggests that our motor systems are activated during perception...

Listeners are better at predicting speakers similar to themselves

Journal Article
Hadley, L. V., Fisher, N. K., & Pickering, M. J. (2020)
Listeners are better at predicting speakers similar to themselves. Acta psychologica, 208, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103094
Although it takes several hundred milliseconds to prepare a spoken contribution, gaps between turns in conversation tend to be much shorter. To produce these short gaps, it ap...

Is Turn Prediction Accuracy across Language and Music and the Idiosyncrasies of one’s own Experience?

Presentation / Conference
Fisher, N., Hadley, L., & Pickering, M. (2019, August)
Is Turn Prediction Accuracy across Language and Music and the Idiosyncrasies of one’s own Experience?. Paper presented at 2019 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, New York, US

An investigation into the benefits of musical training on cognitive control and emotional processing abilities

Thesis
Fisher, N. An investigation into the benefits of musical training on cognitive control and emotional processing abilities. (Thesis)
University of St Andrews. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2716928
Evidence suggests that engagement in musical activity may confer cognitive control advantages though it is not clear why this may be. Here it was explored why such advantages ...