Undergraduate Project Prize Winners 1993 onwards:
In association with the British Science Association Psychology Section
Implicit memory for print advertising material
Christine Askew, University of Liverpool, 1993
Contrast induced speed misperception
Sarah Swash, University of York, 1994
The wordlikeness effect in non-word repetition: An index of bilingual type?
Annabel Thorn, University of Bristol, 1995
The effect of practice on task switching and Stroop interference
Nicholas Yeung, University of Oxford, 1996
Developmental prosopagnosia: should it be taken at face value?
Peggy Postma, City University, 1997
The co-ordination of verbal and spatial immediate memory in reading and mathematical ability
Carmel Price, Royal Holloway, London, 1998
Crossmodal links in covert endogenous attention between audition and touch
Donna Lloyd, University of Manchester, 1999
Children with grammatical SLI: The use of syntactic and semantic cues in word-learning
Shannon Connaire, Birkbeck College University of London, 2000 (Joint Winner)
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Hemispheric asymmetries in perceptual-motor processing and the space ship plot: Simple reaction time to lateralised sinusoidal gratings
Nicholas Holmes, University of Manchester, 2000 (Joint Winner)
Vision enhances cortical processing of tactile stimuli – an evoked potential study
Marisa Taylor Clarke, University College London, 2001
The role of the syllable in spoken word recognition: The illusory migration paradigm
Anna Collins, University of York, 2002
The acute effect of alcohol on decision making in social drinkers
Sophie George, University of Sussex, 2003
An attentional blink for fearful faces: Emotional processing does not require attention
Rebecca Jones, Birkbeck University of London, 2004
The effects of masked priming on alphabetic retrieval and letter naming
Anna Wollaston, Royal Holloway University of London, 2005
A study of spatial learning and memory in the red-footed tortoise (Geochelone carbonaria)
Hui Minn Chan, University of York, 2006
The ability to use movement for segregating and locating sources of sound
Paul Briley, University of York, 2008
Are phosphenes reliable measures of conduction time in the visual system?
Christel Gudberg, Royal Holloway University of London, 2009
The effects of biasing story contexts on 7 and 11 years olds’ false recognition compared to recognition on standard DRM lists
Samantha Wilkinson, Lancaster University, 2010
Perception of vocal emotion in speech: simulations of bilateral and bimodal cochlear implantation
Adele Goman, University of York, 2011
Why we can’t see the zoo for the animals: The A to Z of inattentional blindness
Samantha Mansell, University of Oxford, 2012
Defining the lower limit of human pitch perception
Amy Gibb, Newcastle University, 2013
A pessimistic view of optimistic belief updating
Punit Shah, University of Surrey, 2014
Illusory ownership over an artificial arm decreases itch perception in the real arm
Zoe Lewis, University of Hull, 2015
Applying the distractor devaluation effect to online impulse buying
Amy Isham, University of Warwick, 2016
Social risk amplification in computer-mediated diffusion chains: Effectiveness of information reactivation applied to risk taxonomy
Robert Jagiello, University of Warwick, 2017
Searching for bodies: Electrophysiological evidence for independent somatosensory processing during attentional selection of body postures
Irena Arslanova, City University of London, 2018
Taking Decisions by (De)composing World Models
Jacob Lagerros, Oxford University, University of Manchester, 2019 (co-winner)