Dr Catherine Thompson

Lecturer in Psychology

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• E: c.thompson@salford.ac.uk
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Wednesday 1.00 pm-3.00pm

Catherine is a Lecturer in Psychology and she joined the University of Salford in 2010. Catherine obtained her undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of Lincoln; she then went on to work at the University of Manchester on a project funded by the ESRC. Following this Catherine completed an MSc in Psychological Research Methods, and her PhD at the University of Nottingham. Afterwards, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher on an ESRC-funded grant at the University of Nottingham investigating visual attention in the driving task.

Catherine is module leader for the Cognitive modules on the undergraduate Psychology programmes.

Catherine’s research focuses on visual cognition and her main areas of interest include how observers allocate their attention effectively and what factors influence selection; limits in the control of attention and the impact of a preceding task on the allocation of attention; and the influence of environmental factors on cognitive performance. Catherine was awarded a Vice Chancellor’s Early Career Research Scholarship in 2010 to pursue her research.

Thompson, C. & Crundall, D. (2011). Scanning behavior in natural scenes is influenced by a preceding unrelated visual search task. Perception, 40, 1335-1349.

Thompson, C., Underwood, G., & Crundall, D. (2007). Previous attentional set can induce an attentional blink with task-irrelevant initial targets. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60 (12), 1603-1609.