All Outputs (14)

What is open science and why is it important for social science research (2025)
Digital Artefact

Naomi Heffer, PhD, senior lecturer, discusses the importance of open science for social science research, including research reproducibility, enhancing collaboration, and inclusivity in research.

Building a digital twin framework for EEG neurofeedback in cricket batting motor imagery using simulated data (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presents a digital twin framework designed to provide neurofeedback for a cricket batting motor imagery (MI) study. The framework uses simulated EEG data to establish a computational model that can be extended to real-time data integration... Read More about Building a digital twin framework for EEG neurofeedback in cricket batting motor imagery using simulated data.

Differences in audiovisual temporal processing in autistic adults are specific to simultaneity judgments (2024)
Journal Article

Research has shown that children on the autism spectrum and adults with high levels of autistic traits are less sensitive to audiovisual asynchrony compared to their neurotypical peers. However, this evidence has been limited to simultaneity judgment... Read More about Differences in audiovisual temporal processing in autistic adults are specific to simultaneity judgments.

Multisensory processing of emotional cues predicts intrusive memories after virtual reality trauma (2023)
Journal Article

Research has shown that high trait anxiety can alter multisensory processing of threat cues (by amplifying integration of angry faces and voices); however, it remains unknown whether differences in multisensory processing play a role in the psycholog... Read More about Multisensory processing of emotional cues predicts intrusive memories after virtual reality trauma.

Examining the link between multisensory and socio-emotional processing in anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (2022)
Thesis

To allow us to extract meaningful information from the overwhelming sensory signals in our environment, we must constantly integrate information from multiple sensory modalities. This is particularly true when interpreting others’ emotional states, a... Read More about Examining the link between multisensory and socio-emotional processing in anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Investigating audiovisual emotion processing in PTSD using EEG (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

It has previously been demonstrated that individuals with PTSD show differences in how they process emotional information, but this has been predominantly investigated using visual-only paradigms, despite the fact that emotion perception is known to... Read More about Investigating audiovisual emotion processing in PTSD using EEG.

Multisensory processing of emotional cues predicts psychological distress following exposure to a virtual reality stressor (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Multisensory processing is important for emotion perception, and it has been suggested that multisensory deficits could contribute to dysfunctional affective processing in some populations. Despite this, individual differences in multisensory process... Read More about Multisensory processing of emotional cues predicts psychological distress following exposure to a virtual reality stressor.

High trait anxiety enhances optimal integration of auditory and visual threat cues (2021)
Journal Article

Background
Emotion perception is essential to human interaction and relies on effective integration of emotional cues across sensory modalities. Despite initial evidence for anxiety-related biases in multisensory processing of emotional information,... Read More about High trait anxiety enhances optimal integration of auditory and visual threat cues.

Anxiety biases audiovisual processing of social signals (2021)
Journal Article

In everyday life, information from multiple senses is integrated for a holistic understanding of emotion. Despite evidence of atypical multisensory perception in populations with socio-emotional difficulties (e.g., autistic individuals), little resea... Read More about Anxiety biases audiovisual processing of social signals.

Investigating audiovisual emotion processing using EEG (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Emotion perception is a multisensory process, and so to understand emotion perception in affective disorders, such as PTSD, we must investigate how emotions are perceived with multiple senses. This poster describes a small pilot study designed to tes... Read More about Investigating audiovisual emotion processing using EEG.

Examining multisensory processing of social and non-social information in relation to the degree of trait anxiety in a non-clinical sample (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The ability to regulate affective states and interact with others may be influenced by an individual’s capacity to efficiently process multisensory socio-emotional cues. Despite evidence of altered multisensory processes in individuals with socio-emo... Read More about Examining multisensory processing of social and non-social information in relation to the degree of trait anxiety in a non-clinical sample.

Efficacy and tolerability of lithium for the treatment of acute mania in children with bipolar disorder: A systematic review: A report from the ISBD‐IGSLi joint task force on lithium treatment (2018)
Journal Article

Objectives
To assess the efficacy and tolerability of lithium for the treatment of acute mania in children and adolescent diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

Methods
A systematic literature search up to August 2017 was conducted for clinical trials... Read More about Efficacy and tolerability of lithium for the treatment of acute mania in children with bipolar disorder: A systematic review: A report from the ISBD‐IGSLi joint task force on lithium treatment.

The clinical trajectory of emerging bipolar disorder among the high-risk offspring of bipolar parents: current understanding and future considerations (2017)
Journal Article

Background
Relatively little is known about the onset of bipolar disorder, yet the early illness course is already associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Therefore, characterizing the bipolar illness trajectory is key to risk predictio... Read More about The clinical trajectory of emerging bipolar disorder among the high-risk offspring of bipolar parents: current understanding and future considerations.

Efficacy and tolerability of lithium in treating acute mania in youth with bipolar disorder: Protocol for a systematic review (2017)
Journal Article

Background
Epidemiological, clinical, and high-risk studies have provided evidence that the peak period for onset of diagnosable episodes of mania and hypomania starts in mid-to-late adolescence. Moreover, clinically significant manic symptoms may o... Read More about Efficacy and tolerability of lithium in treating acute mania in youth with bipolar disorder: Protocol for a systematic review.