Ashley ChapmanNorthumbria University · Department of Psychology
Ashley Chapman
PhD Psychology
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Introduction
Cog Sci hopeful.
My research focuses towards the general cognitive mechanisms of memory and attention, studied more specifically through their roles within language, numbers and objects. My personal interests include philosophy, statistics and better understanding how we can convey our understanding of science to others.
Kinda fond of Embodied Cognition.
Learn more about me here: AshChapman.net
Additional affiliations
August 2013 - present
Position
- Lecturer
Description
- As an Associate Lecturer, the main activity expected is the ability to communicate complex concepts and ideas effectively to students. My own roles involved delivering statistics to level four undergraduates.
March 2012 - December 2012
Position
- Student Scholarship Intern
Description
- This role involved two projects: the first examined commonalities in neural activation during periods of creative imagining and mind wandering, utilising EEG measures, and the second involved observing cognitive impairments in patients with diabetes.
December 2010 - May 2012
Position
- Research Assistant
Description
- Roles associated with this job include acting as a member of a research team carrying out experiments under the direction of a principal researcher.
Education
September 2013 - December 2014
September 2010 - July 2013
Publications
Publications (11)
A crucial question facing cognitive science concerns the nature of conceptual representations as well as the constraints on the interactions between them. One specific question we address in this paper is what makes cross-representational interplay possible? We offer two distinct theoretical scenarios: according to the first scenario, co-activated...
Individuals with insomnia often report aspects of perfectionism alongside symptoms of anxiety and depression. However, there has been limited examination of these factors together. The current study investigated whether individuals with insomnia report increased perfectionism compared to normal-sleepers. Further, the mediating role of anxiety and d...
Object perception automatically activates object affordances – motor programs associated with an
items use (Gibson, 1979). Affordances are activated automatically during perception (e.g., Tucker &
Ellis, 1998), but it remains unclear what role, if any, affordances play in the representation of items
in memory.
The present study examines the nature...
Making sense of the world involves complex processes occurring and interacting within the brain. Traditionally, cognitive scientists think of this as analogous to the processes in a computer with strict rules that encapsulate obligatory and domain specific brain modules. Here, it is the aim to show that this may not be the case.
Embodied theories...
Previous research revealed similarities between objects’ representations in working memory and perceptual representations formed online during concept apprehension (e.g., Moorselaar, et al., 2014) suggesting that memorial and perceptual representations are grounded in sensorimotor simulation. This was also shown to be true for numerical magnitude:...
Current theories of cognition propose that sensorimotor simulation forms a necessary basis of abstract and concrete knowledge (Vigliocco et al., 2004). Previous research has shown that understanding action-related (Meteyard, et al., 2007) and spatial (Richardson, et al., 2003) language involves simulating associated sensorimotor experiences. Here,...
Making sense of the world involves complex processes occurring and interacting within the brain. Traditionally, cognitive scientists think of this as analogous to the processes in a computer, with strict rules that encapsulate obligatory and domain specific processes within the brain. Here, it is the aim to show that this may not be the case.
Embo...
Recent theories of cognition propose that sensorimotor simulation forms a fundamental basis of conceptual and abstract knowledge (Myachykov, Scheepers, Fischer & Kessler, 2014). In one study, we examine how the activation of manual affordances are triggered by vision, and further discern the ability of general affordances to confound attention with...
Previous research has shown that understanding action-related (Meteyard, et al., 2007) and spatial (Richardson, et al., 2003) words involves simulating associated sensorimotor experiences. The current study examined the ability of verbs' implicit spatial biases to displace visual attention in vertical and horizontal spaces. Participants read indivi...
Projects
Project (1)
At the heart of current psychological and neuroscientific debates is the question of how domain-general and domain specific cognitive systems interact. In my doctoral thesis, I address a more specific question: what makes this interaction possible? Using eyetracking methods, six studies over varying levels of abstraction show support for the notion of conceptual interplay: the coactivation of individual representational architectures, even when the two domains are distinct and share little common ground.
