
Dr Chris Kent
B.Sc., Ph.D.(Warw.)
Current positions
Associate Professor in Cognitive Psychology
School of Psychological Science
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Research interests
My general research interest is in perception and memory for visual, auditory, and haptic stimuli. More specifically, I am interested in the perceptual and memory processes that support a wide range of cognitive tasks. For example, how are objects encoded, stored, and retrieved from memory? An area that particularly interests me is how perceptual encoding processes and retrieval processes interact. I have studied a variety of tasks that seem to involve overlapping (and hence general) cognitive operations, including, identification, categorization, object recognition, and perceptual matching. I am also interest in how we allocate attention to both static (visual search) and moving (multiple object tracking) stimuli. I am also interested in applied aspects of cognition, including expert perception, haptic interfaces (with Engineering), and the relationship between anxiety and performance (and how to mitigate it). As well as using traditional experimental techniques (including psychophysical, eye tracking, and signal-to-respond methodologies) I develop and use simple mathematical models that embody general processing principles which should offer an account of many perceptual and memory based tasks. I am always looking for strong PhD candidates whose research interests overlap with mine.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Strategies for Improving the Sensing Performance of Personalised Therapeutic Products for People Living with Dementia
Principal Investigator
Role
Principal Investigator
Description
This project seeks to develop a soft robotic device as a therapeutic product with intelligent sensing to support people living with dementia. In this project, we systematically explore and develop…Managing organisational unit
Department of Computer ScienceDates
11/10/2021 to 30/06/2022
Tactile-Textiles: The Calming Cushion
Principal Investigator
Description
This new interdisciplinary collaboration brings together soft-robotic engineering, psychological science, and interactive E-Textile design to co-produce a tactile E-Textile object to enable intuitive remote communication of emotions.Managing organisational unit
School of Psychological ScienceDates
12/12/2018 to 30/09/2019
INFORMATION AND TIME IN ABSOLUTE IDENTIFICATION
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Psychological ScienceDates
01/10/2007 to 01/10/2008
Thesis supervisions
Unequal Attention Allocation in Multiple Object Tracking
Supervisors
Model-based Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation for Tactile Sensations
Supervisors
Retrieval induced forgetting of multi-featured object and social information
Supervisors
The Effects of Visual Attention on Information Processing in Two-alternative Forced Choice Tasks
Supervisors
Negating incrementally
Supervisors
Unequal attention prioritisation of multiple moving and static targets.
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
21/09/2023Errorful learning improves recognition memory for new vocabulary for people living with memory and dysexecutive impairment following brain injury
Neuropsychological Rehabilitation
Graded prioritisation of targets in search: Reward diminishes the low prevalence effect
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications
Retrieval-induced forgetting of spatial position depends on access to multiple shared features within categories
Memory & cognition
A calming hug
PLoS ONE
Unequal allocation of overt and covert attention in multiple object tracking
Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics