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Dr
Kit Pleydell-Pearce
Biographical Details
BSc Psychology, University of Manchester, 1983. I
then completed a PhD in 1988 at the University of Cambridge
in conjunction with the MRC Applied Psychology Unit. In 1990
I joined the Burden Neurological Institute which resides within
Frenchay Hospital, Bristol and remained there for ten years.
During that time I developed links with the Department of
Experimental Psychology at Bristol University, in both a teaching
and research capacity. In 2000, I joined the Department of
Experimental Psychology in Bristol as a full-time member of
staff.
Teaching and Administration
I am Chair of the Resources Committee. This body
is concerned with maintenance and improvement of administration,
teaching and research facilities within the department. I
am also the Equal Opportunities Officer. I am coordinator
of the new MSc Neuropsychology course and also coordinator
of two level 3 undergraduate courses: (1) Consciousness and
Psychology and (2) Clinical Neuropsychology. I also teach
on the Level 2 Neuropsychology unit.
Research interests
Key words: EEG, slow cortical potentials, cognitive workload,
autobiographical memory, attention, consciousness, mathematical
and computational analysis of neurophysiological signals.
My research
is primarily concerned with neurophysiological correlates
of human cognition, and issues associated with localisation
of cognitive function. Recent work has focused upon brain
mechanisms underlying autobiographical memory. In addition,
I am interested in developing new mathematical and computational
techniques for analysing brain activity. This research is
currently focused upon the problem of measuring cognitive
workload and fatigue.
Recent and Current Grants
1999-2000. Development of a Cognition Monitor, DERA, Centre
for Human Sciences. In collaboration with Dr S. Whitecross
(DoEP).
2000-2001.
Further development of a Cognition Monitor. QinetiQ. Centre
for Human Sciences. In collaboration with Dr S. Whitecross
(DoEP).
2000-2001.
The task taxonomy and workload implications of the pilot’s
role. QinetiQ, Centre for Human Sciences. In collaboration
with T. Diethe (CHS).
1999-2002.
The neurophysiology of true and false memories. BBSRC. In
collaboration with Prof. Martin Conway (Co-App), Dr Helen
Sharpe and Dr Sharron Whitecross.
2002-2003
Measurement and analysis of EEG activity. QinetiQ, Centre
for Human Sciences. In collaboration with Dr Caroline Brown
(DoEP).
2001-2004.
Further support and development of Cognition Monitor. QinetiQ.
Centre for Human Sciences. In collaboration with Dr Sharron
Whitecross.
Recent Collaborations
Professor Martin Conway, University of Durham: Brain
mechanisms of autobiographical memory.
Dr Blair
Dickson, Dr Andrew Belyavin, Dr Andrew Willis and Dr Eric
Farmer, QinetiQ: Cerebral correlates of mental workload
Dr Henrik
Hinrichsen Department of Psychiatry, St. George's Hospital
Medical School, University of London. Cognition and anxiety.
Professor
Jefferson Singer, Conneticut College: Retrieval of Self-defining
memories.
Professor
Dylan Jones and Dr Bill Macken, University of Cardiff: The
streaming hypothesis: evidence from EEG studies of auditory
and visual tracking in conjunction with verbal shadowing.
Dr Glen
Wilson, Dr Grant McMillan and Mike Vidulich, Wright State
University: Cerebral Correlates of Mental Workload.
Dr Sandy
Marshall, California State University, San Diego: relations
between eye movements and cerebral activity during complex
task performance.
Recent
& Current PhD Students
Caroline
Brown: Investigating the role of gamma EEG as a solution to
the binding problem.
Sharron
Whitecross: Slow cortical shifts and area specific activity
Martin
Bunnage: Surgical treatment of Parkinson’s disease:
a comparison of glial-derived neurotrophic factor infusion
and deep brain stimulation.
Guy Peryer:
Optimising detection and response to auditory warning signals.
Recent
Publications
Peyrer, G., Noyes, J., Pleydell-Pearce, K. &
Lieven, N. (2005). Auditory alert characteristics: A survey
of pilot views. The International Journal of Aviation Psychology.
Mattys, S.L., Pleydell-Pearce, C.W., Melhorn, J.F. and Whitecross,
S.E. (in press). Detecting silent pauses in speech. A new
tool for measuring on-line lexical and semantic processing.
Psychological Science.
Conway, M.A., & Pleydell-Pearce, C.W. (2000) The construction
of autobiographical memories in the self memory system. Psychological
Review,107, 261-288.
Conway,
M.A., Pleydell-Pearce, C. W., Whitecross, S. E. (2001). The
neuroanatomy of autobiographical memory: a slow cortical potential
study of autobiographical memory retrieval. Journal of Memory
and Language, 45; 493-524
Conway,
M.A., Pleydell-Pearce, C.W., Whitecross, S. Sharpe, H. (2002).
Neurophysiological correlates of autobiographical memory for
experienced and imagined events. Neuropsychologia, in press.
Conway,
M.A., Pleydell-Pearce, C.W., Whitecross, S. Sharpe, H. (2002).
Brain imaging autobiographical memory. The Psychology of Learning
and Motivation, 41, 229-264.
Marshall,
S. P., Pleydell-Pearce, C. W. and Dickson, B. T. (2003). Integrating
psychophysiological measures of cognitive workload and eye
movements to detect strategy shifts. Proc 36th Annual HICSS,
130, 1-6.
Pleydell-Pearce,
K., Dickson, B. and Whitecross, S. (2000). Cognition Monitor:
A system for real time pilot state assessment. In P. McCabe,
M. Hanson and S. Robertson (Eds), Contemporary Ergonomics
2000. 65-69. Taylor and Francis, London.
Pleydell-Pearce,
C., Whitecross, S., and Dickson, B. (2003). Multivariate analysis
of EEG: Predicting cognition on the basis of frequency decomposition,
inter-electrode correlation, coherence, phase and cross power.
. Proc 36th Annual HICSS, 131. 1-11.
Taylor,
R. M., Bonner, M. C., Dickson, B., Howells, H., Milton, N.,
Pleydell-Pearce, K., Shadbolt, N., Tennison, J., and Whitecross,
S. (2001). Cognitive cockpit engineering: Coupling functional
state assessment, task knowledge management and decision support
for context sensitive aiding. Human Systems IAC Gateway. Vol
XII (1)
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