The relationship between creativity and attention in adults
Journal Article
Carruthers, L., MacLean, R., & Willis, A. (2018)
The relationship between creativity and attention in adults. Creativity Research Journal, 30(4), 370-379
Creativity is a valuable attribute that involves the generation of original ideas; attention is a vital function that facilitates information selection. There is some evidence...
How evil people choose their victims: The Dark Triad and perceptions of personality traits and vulnerability
Presentation / Conference
Li Chung, K., Charles, K., Neill, C. & Willis, A. (2016, July)
How evil people choose their victims: The Dark Triad and perceptions of personality traits and vulnerability. Poster presented at 18th European Conference on Personality, Timișoara, Romania
The Dark Triad (DT) – Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy – is associated with grandiosity, insensitivity, and exploitation. Some people are found to be more sensiti...
Demonstrating the links between psychology and biology: the practical use of Biopac in undergraduate psychology teaching.
Presentation / Conference
Murray, J., Shaw, M., & Willis, A. (2016, January)
Demonstrating the links between psychology and biology: the practical use of Biopac in undergraduate psychology teaching. Paper presented at The Teaching Fellows' Conference: innovations in teaching and supporting student learning, Edinburgh Napier University
For those unfamiliar with psychology, there is often a perception that it is a subject that is all about the mind and ‘talking therapies. However, since the 1930s this has not...
Effects of installing a marked crosswalk on road crossing behaviour and perceptions of the environment.
Journal Article
Havard, C., & Willis, A. (2012)
Effects of installing a marked crosswalk on road crossing behaviour and perceptions of the environment. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 15, 249-260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2011.12.007
A two-pronged study was conducted to investigate (a) pedestrians’ road-crossing behaviour and (b) perceptions of the walking environment, both before and after the installatio...
Walking, talking and looking: effects of divided attention on gaze behaviour and visual search performance in a real-world environment
Journal Article
Wincenciak, J., Egan, C. D., & Willis, A. (2010)
Walking, talking and looking: effects of divided attention on gaze behaviour and visual search performance in a real-world environment. Perception, 39, 35
Visually-guided behaviour in the laboratory may not always reflect that in larger-scale environments, using more realistic tasks. (eg Smith et al, 2008 Cogn Process 9 121-126)...
The effects of a distractor on the visual gaze behaviour of children at signalized road crossings
Journal Article
Egan, C. D., Willis, A., & Wincenciak, J. (2009)
The effects of a distractor on the visual gaze behaviour of children at signalized road crossings. Journal of Vision, 9(8), https://doi.org/10.1167/9.8.371
Children are over-represented in pedestrian injuries. This may be explained, at least in part, by poorer attentional mechanisms at the roadside compared with skilled adults. W...
Visual search for targets on natural textured backgrounds.
Journal Article
Green, P. R., Willis, A. & Egan, C. D. (2008)
Visual search for targets on natural textured backgrounds. Perception. 38, 41. ISSN 0301-0066
Little is known about visual search for targets on natural, textured backgrounds, or about the capacity of biological camouflage patterns to provide protection across a range ...
A binocular site for contrast-modulated masking.
Journal Article
Harris, J. M. & Willis, A. (2001)
A binocular site for contrast-modulated masking. Vision research an international journal in visual science. 41, 873-881. doi:10.1016/S0042-6989(00)00292-3. ISSN 1878-5646
Contrast-modulated (CM) gratings, composed of two luminance-modulated sinusoids of similar spatial frequency, mask the detection of test sinusoids at the difference frequency....
Effects of glaucoma and aging on photopic and scotopic motion perception.
Journal Article
Willis, A. & Anderson, S. J. (1999)
Effects of glaucoma and aging on photopic and scotopic motion perception. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 41, 325-335. ISSN 0146-0404
PURPOSE: To examine the effects of primary open-angle glaucoma and normal aging on visual sensitivity for targets known to bias responses from the magnocellular visual process...
Comparing contrast-modulated and luminance-modulated masking: effects of spatial frequency.
Journal Article
Willis, A., Smallman, H. S. & Harris, J. M. (1999)
Comparing contrast-modulated and luminance-modulated masking: effects of spatial frequency. Perception. 29, 81-100. doi:10.1068/p2999. ISSN 0301-0066
The masking of a sinusoidal test grating by contrast-modulated (CM) gratings could, in principle, be attributable to the presence of a distortion product, injected into the st...