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Challenges young people face in managing musculoskeletal chronic pain
PI: Dr Line Caes
Funded by: The Nuffield Foundation
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Agency, Rationality and Epistemic Defeat (ARED) - Phase II
PI: Dr Giacomo Melis
Funded by: Medical Research Council
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On the scent of fear: exploring the microbial and chemical mechanisms of olfactory communication
PI: Professor Craig Roberts
Funded by: Human Frontier Science Program
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Optimizing intervention strategies via social prescribing as a means of encouraging and enabling healthy and sustainable dietary behaviours in individuals from low-income families
PI: Professor Julia Allan
Funded by: Scottish Government
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Investigating the cortical control of multiple object handling
PI: Dr Arran Reader
Funded by: Royal Society
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3D interactive lineup identification
PI: Dr Anna Bobak
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council
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Evaluating A Novel Online Test Instrument For Measuring Theory Of Mind In Adulthood
PI: Professor Christine Anna Caldwell
Funded by: The British Academy
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Follow-On: The cortical head direction system as a model for systems-level alterations in three rat models of Autism Spectrum Disorder/Intellectual Disability
PI: Professor Paul Dudchenko
Funded by: Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI)
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Agency, Rationality, and Epistemic Defeat
PI: Dr Giacomo Melis
Funded by: Medical Research Council
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Optimal sensory coding and exposure to extreme body types: understanding the implications for body image disturbance
PI: Professor Paul Hibbard
Funded by: The British Academy
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Development and Validation of a Behavior Change Tool for the 'Why Weight' Child Healthy Weight Program Evaluation
PI: Dr Sinead Currie
Funded by: NHS Forth Valley
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Understanding multiple object handling
PI: Dr Arran Reader
Funded by: Experimental Psychology Society
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Digital Health: Optimuscle - Improving health outcomes through the optimisation of muscle function
PI: Dr Wendy Maltinsky
Funded by: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
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The impact of age at school entry on cognitive and academic attainment
PI: Dr Eva Rafetseder
Funded by: The Leverhulme Trust
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On-organ sensing for bowel monitoring - a bottom up approach
PI: Dr Wendy Maltinsky
Funded by: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
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Illustrating adventurous play
PI: Dr Lily FitzGibbon
Funded by: Froebel Trust
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Co-production of an intervention promoting preconception health and reducing childhood obesity in deprived areas of Scotland
PI: Dr Sinead Currie
Funded by: Glasgow Children's Hospital Charity
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Vaccines against AMR in Aquaculture
PI: Professor Margaret Crumlish
Funded by: International Development Research Centre
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From fuel to pot: an interdisciplinary partnership to address the role of solid fuel use in food preparation in the household in Kenya and Malawi.
PI: Dr Isabelle Uny
Funded by: Arts and Humanities Research Council
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A meta-ethnography of how children and young people with chronic non-cancer pain and their families experience and understand their condition, pain services and treatments
PI: Professor Emma France
Funded by: National Institute for Health Research
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Community pharmacy: Highlighting Alcohol use in Medication aPpointments (CHAMP-1) research programme
PI: Professor Ronan O'Carroll
Funded by: National Institute for Health Research
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Remembering to remember: What techniques can be used to improve prospective memory in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)?
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Funded by: Academy of Medical Sciences
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Identifying novel markers of concealed face recognition
PI: Dr Ailsa Millen
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council
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MAP Behaviour Change: Competency Based Training in Individual Level Support for Behaviour Change for Nurse-Leads in St Helena
PI: Professor Vivien Swanson
Funded by: The Burdett Trust for Nursing
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The impact of COVID-19 Fear: evidence to inform social, health and economic recovery - a Healthy Ageing In Scotland (HAGIS) study
PI: Dr Elaine Douglas
Funded by: UK Research and Innovation
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Individual Differences in Holistic processing
PI: Dr Stephen Langton
Funded by: Experimental Psychology Society
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SCENIC: Surmounting COVID Challenges, Experiences of Nurses in Charge
PI: Dr Kathleen Stoddart
Funded by: NHS Lothian and NHS Grampian
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Dissociating the Effects of Age and Schooling on Neurocognitive Development
PI: Dr Eva Rafetseder
Funded by: Jacobs Foundation
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Increasing Medication Adherence Among adults with Atrial Fibrillation: a MRC complex intervention framework development and feasibility study
PI: Professor Ronan O'Carroll
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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FACERVM - Face Matching
PI: Professor Peter Hancock
Funded by: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
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The Efficacy of a Post-Partum Physical Development Programme
PI: Dr Sinead Currie
Funded by: BAE Systems
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Developing an adapted parent-youth teamwork intervention to improve medication adherence among adolescents with asthma: a feasibility study
PI: Dr Pamela Rackow
Funded by: Medical Research Council
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The Cog in the Ratchet: Illuminating the Cognitive Mechanisms Generating Human Cumulative Culture
PI: Professor Christine Anna Caldwell
Funded by: European Commission (Horizon 2020)
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Increasing uptake of bowel cancer screening: development of a planning support tool
PI: Professor Ronan O'Carroll
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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A Randomised Control Trial to Assess the Impact of a Lifestyle Intervention in Women attending NHS breast screening clinics
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Funded by: Scottish Government
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Spatial orientation and the brain: identifying the link between neural representations of direction and location
PI: Professor Paul Dudchenko
Funded by: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
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How can we explain impairments in executive functioning? The role of chronic pain and social context during adolescence.
PI: Dr Line Caes
Funded by: The Royal Society of Edinburgh
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Infant Brain Health in India: Assessing and Enhancing Working Memory Capacity via a Neurobehavioral Toolkit
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Funded by: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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HPIT Supervision
PI: Dr Sinead Currie
Funded by: NHS Education for Scotland
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Augmented Reality: A Step Change in Memory for Faces
PI: Dr Jamie Murray
Funded by: The Carnegie Trust
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Promoting smoking cessation during pregnancy: a combined feasibility and pilot trial of a theory-based intervention using narrative, images and embedded behaviour change techniques, delivered via text-messaging
PI: Professor Helen Cheyne
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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Personalised Risk Information and its Impact on Informed Choice and Intention to Undergo Colonoscopy in the Scottish Bowel Screening Programme
PI: Professor Ronan O'Carroll
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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Study to Examine Physiological Processes in Suicidal Ideation and Behaviour (STEPPS)
PI: Professor Ronan O'Carroll
Funded by: U.S. Army Medical Research & Materiel Command
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Towards a better understanding of mirror-symmetry in human vision
PI: Dr Elena Gheorghiu
Funded by: The Wellcome Trust
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Elucidating the role of colour in shape processing in human vision
PI: Dr Elena Gheorghiu
Funded by: The Leverhulme Trust
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A Brief School-Based Intervention To Reduce Sunburn In Adolescence: A Feasibility Study
PI: Professor Ronan O'Carroll
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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On the acquisition of counterfactual reasoning and ensuing abilities
PI: Dr Eva Rafetseder
Funded by: German Research Foundation
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EEG and Future Innovations
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Funded by: The Scottish Institute of Sport
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Canada-UK Foundation Travel Award
PI: Dr Line Caes
Funded by: Canada-UK Foundation
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The Cognitive requirements of cumulative culture: experiments with typically developing and autistic people
PI: Professor Christine Anna Caldwell
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council
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Bridging the gap in recognition memory between unknown and known faces
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Funded by: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
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Engaging Industry to develop best practice for laboratory-housed dogs, improving welfare and quality of scientific output
PI: Professor Hannah Buchanan-Smith
Funded by: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
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Development of Interventions to reduce patient delay with symptoms of Acute Coronary Syndrome: identifying optimal content and mode of delivery
PI: Dr Barbara Farquharson
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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Provision of Supervision for Health Psychologists in Training
PI: Professor Ronan O'Carroll
Funded by: NHS Education for Scotland
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Developing a brief school-based psycho-educational intervention to promote sun-safe behaviours in Scottish adolescents
PI: Dr Stephan Dombrowski
Funded by: Teenage Cancer Trust
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LivingWell- a feasibility study to assess the impact of a lifestyle intervention in people attending family history clinics with an increased risk of colorectal or breast cancer.
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Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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Validating reward-related behaviour for welfare assessment, and improving welfare through increased predictability of events
PI: Professor Hannah Buchanan-Smith
Funded by: National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement & Reduction of Animals in Research
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The Macaque Website
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Funded by: National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement & Reduction of Animals in Research
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A pilot telephone intervention to increase uptake of Breast Cancer Screening in socially deprived areas of NHS Tayside
PI: Professor Ronan O'Carroll
Funded by: NHS Tayside
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Cancer as a catalyst for change? Extent and predictors of changes in diet, physical activity and tobacco use after colorectal cancer diagnosis
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Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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TreatWELL – a feasibility study to assess the delivery of a lifestyle intervention for colorectal cancer patients undergoing potentially curative treatment
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Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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The Use of Cardiac rehabilitation services to aid the recovery of colorectal
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Funded by: National Institute for Health Research
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Is there ill in the pill? Exploring social consequences of partner choice while using hormonal contraception
PI: Professor Craig Roberts
Funded by: The British Academy
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A randomised controlled trial of a brief psychological intervention to increase the uptake of colorectal cancer screening in Scotland
PI: Professor Ronan O'Carroll
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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Orienting of Visual Attention in Response to Naturalistic Dynamic Shifts of Another's Gaze
PI: Dr Stephen Langton
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council
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Working together to support active living and well being in the health promoting health service - feasibility trial to reduce breast cancer risk factors
PI: Professor Ronan O'Carroll
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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The Macaque Website
PI: Professor Hannah Buchanan-Smith
Funded by: Medical Research Council
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A 3d psychological face database and tools
PI: Professor Peter Hancock
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council
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A randomised controlled trial to test if a simple anticipate regret manipulation leads to significant increase in organ donor registrations
PI: Professor Ronan O'Carroll
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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Cross-Situational Learning in Children
PI: Dr Andrew Smith
Funded by: The British Academy
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Optimised suicide prevention programs and their implementation on Europe
PI: Professor Margaret Maxwell
Funded by: European Commission (Horizon 2020)
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Royal Society International Joint Project
PI: Professor Craig Roberts
Funded by: Royal Society
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Improving Adherence to Medication in Stroke Survivors (IAMMS); Pilot Study
PI: Professor Ronan O'Carroll
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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A brief intervention to increase walking in patients with peripheral arterial disease: long term follow-up
PI: Professor Ronan O'Carroll
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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The Development of Children's Gaze Perception
PI: Dr Stephen Langton
Funded by: The British Academy
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A Multi-Method Assessment of Barriers to Breastfeeding in Obese Women
PI: Professor Vivien Swanson
Funded by: NHS Health Scotland
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An experimental approach to studying cultural variation and convergence
PI: Professor Christine Anna Caldwell
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council
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Parents' Linguistic, Acoustic, and Non-Verbal Cues for Toddler-Directed Pretence and Humour
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Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council
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Implicit attitudes as barriers to registration as an organ donor
PI: Professor Ronan O'Carroll
Funded by: The British Academy
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The Link Between Laboratory Primate Welfare and the Quality of Science
PI: Professor Hannah Buchanan-Smith
Funded by: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
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Consequences of Using Hormonal contraception during Partner Choice
PI: Professor Craig Roberts
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council
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Cinema for Primates
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Funded by: The Arts Catalyst
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Functional role of second order processing in binocular vision
PI: Dr Ross Goutcher
Funded by: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
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Recognising Prototypes from natural and dynamic sources of facial variation: the role of identity and continuity
PI: Professor Peter Hancock
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council
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A brief pre-trial intervention pilot study of a postcard intervention to reduce repetition of hospital treated self-harm
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Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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Self-Monitoring Behaviour and its Association with Glycaemic Control Among Non Insulin Treated Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
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Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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The Development of Mental Imagery
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Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council
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Positive reinforcement training for primates
PI: Professor Hannah Buchanan-Smith
Funded by: Universities Federation for Animal Welfare
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Integration of contour Information in human vision.
PI: Professor Roger Watt
Funded by: The Leverhulme Trust
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Video demonstrations, speed and observational learning in capuchin monkeys
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Funded by: The Carnegie Trust
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Cognitive load in face-to-face interactions: Evidence from neurodevelopmental disorders
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Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council
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Cognitive Load in Face to Face Interactions
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Funded by: Northumbria University
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Chimpcam: How do chimpanzees see their world?
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Funded by: Burning Gold Productions
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Do Young Children Understand Pictures as Representational?
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Funded by: The British Academy
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The Role of Psychological factors in predicting short-term outcome following suicidal behaviour
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Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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Evolutionary Approaches to Face Perception
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Funded by: Royal Society
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The Acoustic Features of parents' pretence and humorous toddler-directed speech
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Funded by: The British Academy
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Social Exclusion and Working Memory Performance
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Funded by: The British Academy
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Dignity & respect in residential care - issues for black and minority ethnic groups
PI: Professor Alison Bowes
Funded by: Department of Health
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The Influence and Fixation Duration and the Velocity of Gaze Shift on Observer's Visual Attention
PI: Dr Stephen Langton
Funded by: The Carnegie Trust
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