Search Results - "Sowden, Paul"

Bird sounds and their contributions to perceived attention restoration and stress recovery by Ratcliffe, Eleanor, Gatersleben, Birgitta, Sowden, Paul T.

“…Natural environments, and particularly visual stimuli in nature, are usually perceived as restorative following stress and attention fatigue. Studies extending…”
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The shifting sands of creative thinking: Connections to dual-process theory by Sowden, Paul T., Pringle, Andrew, Gabora, Liane

“…Dual-process models of cognition suggest that there are two types of thought: autonomous Type 1 processes and working memory dependent Type 2 processes that…”
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Predicting the Perceived Restorative Potential of Bird Sounds Through Acoustics and Aesthetics by Ratcliffe, Eleanor, Gatersleben, Birgitta, Sowden, Paul T.

“…Some, but not all, bird sounds are associated with perceptions of restoration from stress and cognitive fatigue. The perceptual properties that might underpin…”
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A Systematic Investigation of Conceptual Color Associations by Tham, Diana Su Yun, Sowden, Paul T, Grandison, Alexandra, Franklin, Anna, Lee, Anna Kai Win, Ng, Michelle, Park, Juhyun, Pang, Weiguo, Zhao, Jingwen

“…Associations with colors are a rich source of meaning, and there has been considerable interest in understanding the capacity of color to shape our functioning…”
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Connected Creativity: The Impact of Web Search on Everyday Creative Thinking by Martin, Clare, Sowden, Paul T., Warren, Frances

“…With more than 60% of the world's population online, how does our rapidly evolving digital world impact creative processes and outcomes? On the one hand, there…”
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Unearthing the Creative Thinking Process: Fresh Insights From a Think-Aloud Study of Garden Design by Pringle, Andrew, Sowden, Paul T

“…A number of theories of creativity have converged on the idea that creative thinking entails shifting between different processes. We attempt to build on…”
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Your hand or mine? The extrastriate body area by Myers, Andrew, Sowden, Paul T.

“…Visual images of our own and others' body parts can be highly similar, but the types of information we wish to extract from them are highly distinct. From our…”
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Understanding the Perceived Benefits of Nature for Creativity by Ratcliffe, Eleanor, Gatersleben, Birgitta, Sowden, Paul T., Korpela, Kalevi M.

“…Experience of nature is widely linked to well‐being, including psychological restoration. Benefits to creativity have been explored in a limited number of…”
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A meta‐analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of divergent thinking using activation likelihood estimation by Cogdell‐Brooke, Lucy S., Sowden, Paul T., Violante, Inês R., Thompson, Hannah E.

“…There are conflicting findings regarding brain regions and networks underpinning creativity, with divergent thinking tasks commonly used to study this. A…”
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Improvisation Facilitates Divergent Thinking and Creativity: Realizing a Benefit of Primary School Arts Education by Sowden, Paul T, Clements, Lucie, Redlich, Chrishelle, Lewis, Carine

“…The benefit of arts education for cultural engagement, wider academic achievement, and as a contributor to the creative economy is a subject of significant…”
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Anxiolytic effects of a galacto-oligosaccharides prebiotic in healthy females (18–25 years) with corresponding changes in gut bacterial composition by Johnstone, Nicola, Milesi, Chiara, Burn, Olivia, van den Bogert, Bartholomeus, Nauta, Arjen, Hart, Kathryn, Sowden, Paul, Burnet, Philip W. J., Cohen Kadosh, Kathrin

“…Current research implicates pre- and probiotic supplementation as a potential tool for improving symptomology in physical and mental ailments, which makes it…”
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The Creative Self: Do People Distinguish Creative Self-Perceptions, Efficacy, and Personal Identity? by Snyder, Heather T., Sowden, Paul T., Silvia, Paul J., Kaufman, James C.

“…There is a growing use of self-report measures of creativity with university students (Snyder, Hammond, Grohman, & Katz-Buonincontro, 2019). Creative…”
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Channel surfing in the visual brain by Sowden, Paul T., Schyns, Philippe G.

“…Vision provides us with an ever-changing neural representation of the world from which we must extract stable object categorizations. We argue that visual…”
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Modeling learned categorical perception in human vision by Casey, Matthew C., Sowden, Paul T.

“…A long standing debate in cognitive neuroscience has been the extent to which perceptual processing is influenced by prior knowledge and experience with a…”
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Chromatic Perceptual Learning but No Category Effects without Linguistic Input by Grandison, Alexandra, Sowden, Paul T, Drivonikou, Vicky G, Notman, Leslie A, Alexander, Iona, Davies, Ian R L

“…Perceptual learning involves an improvement in perceptual judgment with practice, which is often specific to stimulus or task factors. Perceptual learning has…”
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Perceptual learning of luminance contrast detection: specific for spatial frequency and retinal location but not orientation by Sowden, Paul T., Rose, David, Davies, Ian R.L.

“…Performance of a wide range of simple visual tasks improves with practice. Here we ask whether such learning occurs for the fundamental visual task of…”
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Tactile Elevation Perception in Blind and Sighted Participants and Its Implications for Tactile Map Creation by Jehoel, Sandra, Sowden, Paul T., Ungar, Simon, Sterr, Annette

“…Objective: Our goal was to determine the optimal elevation of tactile map symbols. Background: Tactile perception research predicts that symbol elevation…”
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The nature of learned categorical perception effects: a psychophysical approach by Notman, Leslie A., Sowden, Paul T., Özgen, Emre

“…Categorical perception is often cited as a striking example of cognitive influences on perception. However, some evidence suggests the term is a misnomer, with…”
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Associations with bird sounds: How do they relate to perceived restorative potential? by Ratcliffe, Eleanor, Gatersleben, Birgitta, Sowden, Paul T.

“…Bird sounds are related to perceptions of attention restoration and stress recovery, but the role of associations in such perceptions is understudied. 174…”
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Perceptual learning of the detection of features in X-ray images: a functional role for improvements in adults' visual sensitivity? by Sowden, P T, Davies, I R, Roling, P

“…Recent perceptual learning research has found long-term increases in the sensitivity of adults' perceptual systems. The authors examined whether such changes…”
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