Dr Mark Harwood
Lecturer
Department of Psychology & Human Development , School of Childhood and Social Care
Mark is a lecturer in psychology and teaches on the BSc and MSc programmes in research methods and Cognitive Psychology.
Qualifications
- PhD
OVERVIEW
Mark teaches on the BSc and MSc programmes in research methods and Cognitive Psychology. He did his undergraduate degree at the University of Edinburgh, before completing his Developmental Psychology PhD at UCL, and going on to postdoctoral research in Cognitive and Experimental Psychology in New York.
CURRENT RESEARCH
Vision is a highly active process: what we see is strongly determined by where we direct our eyes, and we move our eyes consciously or unconsciously several times a second. Eye movements provide an excellent 'window to the brain', revealing principles of how the brain makes decisions, learns from mistakes, and generates our visual perception of the world.
My research is quantitative, precisely measuring things like the speed, reaction time and accuracy of eye movements as people look at moving or stationary parts of the visual scene. From these, one can infer the underlying neural processes; or infer pathologies in these measures in developmental and neurodegenerative diseases.
FUNDING
Mark won a Wellcome Trust Fellowship, and has received National Institute of Health (USA), and National Science Foundation funding as Principal, or Co-Investigator.
TEACHING
MSc Psychology
A psychology conversion course for students with a first degree in another subject area. It means you could go on and train to be a professional psychologist.
Study MSc PsychologyMODULES
- PY5201 Researching Psychological Worlds 2 (Quantitative Module Leader)
- PY4101 Researching Psychological Worlds 1
- GC7405 Research Methods and Dissertation (MSc Occupational and Business Psychology)
Publications
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Full publications list
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- Reinforcement reduces the size–latency phenomenon: A cost–benefit evaluation of saccade triggering Journal of Vision. 19 (4), p. Art. 16. https://doi.org/10.1167/19.4.16
- The saccadic size-latency phenomenon explored: Proximal target size is a determining factor in the saccade latency Vision Research. 129, pp. 87-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2016.09.006
- Salient Distractors Can Induce Saccade Adaptation Journal of Ophthalmology. 2014 (585792), pp. 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/585792
- Visual cues that are effective for contextual saccade adaptation Journal of Neurophysiology. 111 (11), pp. 2307-2319. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00894.2013