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Overview

Derrick G. Watson is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Psychology, with a specialized interest in Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence.

Their work spans multiple main topics including deception detection and forensic psychology, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, human-automation interaction and safety, traffic and road safety, safety warnings and signage, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, and neural and behavioral psychology studies.

Notable recent papers by Watson include the following:

  • "Education in the Digital Age: Learning Experience in Virtual and Mixed Realities," 2021, Journal of Educational Computing Research
  • "Caught virtually lying-crime scenes in virtual reality help to expose suspects' concealed recognition," 2020, Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
  • "Seen this scene? Scene recognition in the reaction-time Concealed Information Test," 2020, Memory & Cognition
  • "Fatigue and vigilance in medical experts detecting breast cancer," 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Dear diary: Evaluating a goal-oriented intervention linked with increased hope and cognitive flexibility," 2020, Personality and Individual Differences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Watson include:

  • Melina A. Kunar
  • Jason J. Braithwaite
  • Sian Taylor-Phillips
  • D Norman
  • Kimberley A. Wade

Watson's research has been published repeatedly in several academic venues. These include:

  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied
  • Accident Analysis & Prevention
  • Journal of Educational Computing Research
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Cognitive Research Principles and Implications

Best Publications

  • Visual marking: prioritizing selection for new objects by top-down attentional inhibition of old objects.

    Derrick G. Watson;Glyn W. Humphreys

  • Visual marking: evidence for inhibition using a probe-dot detection paradigm.

    Derrick G. Watson;Glyn W. Humphreys

  • Visual marking of moving objects : a role for top-down feature-based inhibition in selection

    Derrick G. Watson;Glyn W. Humphreys

  • Separating distractor rejection and target detection in posterior parietal cortex--an event-related fMRI study of visual marking.

    Stefan Pollmann;Stefan Pollmann;Ralph Weidner;Glyn W. Humphreys;Christian N. L. Olivers

  • Can people identify original and manipulated photos of real-world scenes?

    Sophie J. Nightingale;Kimberley A. Wade;Derrick G. Watson

  • Education in the Digital Age: Learning Experience in Virtual and Mixed Realities:

    Devon Allcoat;Tim Hatchard;Freeha Azmat;Kim Stansfield

  • Visual marking: using time in visual selection.

    Derrick G. Watson;Glyn W. Humphreys;Christian N.L. Olivers

  • Top-down effects of semantic knowledge in visual search are modulated by cognitive but not perceptual load

    Eva Belke;Glyn W. Humphreys;Derrick G. Watson;Antje S. Meyer

  • Subitizing requires attention

    Christian N. L. Olivers;Derrick G. Watson

  • Fractionating the preview benefit in search: dual-task decomposition of visual marking by timing and modality.

    Glyn W Humphreys;Derrick G Watson;Pierre Jolicoeur

  • The role of eye movements in subitizing and counting.

    Derrick G. Watson;Elizabeth A. Maylor;Lucy A. M. Bruce

  • Object Recognition under Sequential Viewing Conditions: Evidence for Viewpoint-Specific Recognition Procedures:

    Rebecca Lawson;Glyn W Humphreys;Derrick G Watson

  • Visual marking of locations and feature maps : evidence from within-dimension defined conjunctions

    Christian N. L. Olivers;Derrick G. Watson;Glyn W. Humphreys

  • Visual marking and visual change.

    Derrick G. Watson;Glyn W. Humphreys

  • State dissociation in bulimic eating disorders: an experimental study.

    Charlie Hallings-Pott;Glenn Waller;Derrick G. Watson;Peter Scragg

  • Negotiating the Traffic: Can Cognitive Science Help Make Autonomous Vehicles a Reality?

    Nick Chater;Jennifer B. Misyak;Derrick G. Watson;Nathan Griffiths

  • Search, enumeration, and aging: eye movement requirements cause age-equivalent performance in enumeration but not in search tasks.

    Derrick G. Watson;Elizabeth A. Maylor;Lucy A. M. Bruce

  • Input control processes in rapid serial visual presentations: target selection and distractor inhibition.

    Christian N. L. Olivers;Derrick G. Watson

  • Visual marking in moving displays: feature-based inhibition is not necessary.

    Derrick G. Watson

  • Parieto-occipital areas involved in efficient filtering in search : a time course analysis of visual marking using behavioural and functional imaging procedures

    Glyn W Humphreys;Søren Kyllingsbaek;Derrick G Watson;Chris N L Olivers

  • Infectious Disease Prevalence, Not Race Exposure, Predicts Both Implicit and Explicit Racial Prejudice Across the United States:

    Brian A. O’Shea;Brian A. O’Shea;Derrick G. Watson;Gordon D. A. Brown;Corey L. Fincher

Frequent Co-Authors

Glyn W. Humphreys
Glyn W. Humphreys University of Oxford
Elizabeth A. Maylor
Elizabeth A. Maylor University of Warwick
Christian N. L. Olivers
Christian N. L. Olivers Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Nick Chater
Nick Chater University of Warwick
Glenn Waller
Glenn Waller University of Sheffield
Gordon D. A. Brown
Gordon D. A. Brown University of Warwick
Stefan Pollmann
Stefan Pollmann Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Caroline Meyer
Caroline Meyer University of Warwick
Camilla Gilmore
Camilla Gilmore Loughborough University
Fiona Maccallum
Fiona Maccallum University of Warwick

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