Professor Bruce Hood

Summary

My research interests include:

• Cognitive development from a neuroscience perspective.
• Face and gaze processing.
• Inhibitory control of thoughts and actions.
• Spatial representation and action.
• Naïve theories.
• The origin of adult magical reasoning from children’s natural intuitions.

Current grants

• The Immortality Project (2013-2015): Relationship between Mind-Body Dualism & Belief in the After-Life

PHD students supervised

• Kate Longestaffe

Teaching

Experimental Psychology:

• Year 1 Developmental Psychology
• Year 1 Myths and Misconceptions

Keywords

• Cognitive Development

Expertise

I am interested in cognitive development from a neuroscience perspective. My research interests include; face and gaze processing; inhibitory control of thoughts and actions; Spatial representation and action; naive theories; The origin of adult magical reasoning from children?s natural intuitions. Many of my current interests in the origins of supernatural beliefs are contained in my forthcoming book, ?SuperSense: Why We Believe the Unbelievable? which is to be published in April 2009 by HarperOne. http://www.brucemhood.com/

Memberships

Organisations

School of Experimental Psychology

Other sites

• Neuroscience

Experimental Psychology staff

• Experimental Psychology academic staff

Research themes

• Cognitive Processes

Research groups

• Developmental Group

Links

•   home page

Recent publications

• Longstaffe, KA, Hood, BM & Gilchrist, ID 2014, ‘The influence of cognitive load on spatial search performance’. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, vol 76., pp. 49-63
• Longstaffe, KA, Hood, BM & Gilchrist, ID 2013, ‘Development of human spatial cognition in a three-dimensional world’. Behavioral and brain sciences, vol 36., pp. 556-556
• Nurmsoo, ED, Einav, S & Hood, BM 2012, ‘Best friends: children use mutual gaze to identify friendships in others’. Developmental Science, vol 15., pp. 417-425
• Hood, BM, Gjersoe, NL & Bloom, P 2012, ‘Do children think that duplicating the body also duplicates the mind?’. Cognition, vol 125., pp. 466-474
• Pellicano, E, Smith, A, Cristino, F, Hood, B, Briscoe, J & Gilchrist, I 2011, ‘Children with autism are neither systematic nor optimal foragers’. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol 108., pp. 421 - 426
• Kanngiesser, P, Santos, L, Hood, B & Call, J 2011, ‘The limits of endowment effects in great apes (Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, Gorilla gorilla, Pongo pygmaeus)’. Journal of Comparative Psychology, vol 125., pp. 436 - 445
• Lindeman, M, Riekki, T & Hood, BM 2011, ‘Is weaker inhibition associated with supernatural beliefs?’. Journal of Cognition and Culture, vol 11., pp. 231-239
• Hood, BM, Gjersoe, NL, Donnelly, KE, Byers, A & Itakura, S 2011, ‘Moral contagion attitudes towards potential organ transplants in british and japanese adults’. Journal of Cognition and Culture, vol 11., pp. 269-286
• Pellicano, E, Smith, A, Cristino, F, Hood, B, Briscoe, J & Gilchrist, I 2011, ‘Reply to Nemeth and Janacsek: Children with autism learn to search differently in a large-scale context’. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 108., pp. 421 - 426
• Kanngiesser, P, Gjersoe, N & Hood, B 2010, ‘The effect of creative labor on property-ownership transfer by preschool children and adults’. Psychological Science, vol 21., pp. 1236 - 1241

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