plans for the next four years
http://onemonkey.org/psycho/CJMAProposal.pdf
After four years of planning, I now know what I am doing for the next four (and hopefully more); I have just heard that I've been accepted for the Birkbeck Psychology PhD. I started their part-time BSc back in 2001 with this vague target that I'd like to get into academic psychology. The degree is all over in a few weeks and then when October rolls around this year, I'll be a full-time student again for first time since '96, but this time I'm serious! Although in some ways it is an anti-climax to finally possess the piece of paper. In others, it hasn't quite sunk in yet.. after a decade of dilly-dallying with 'a career' I may now have found a vocation. I knew almost immediately that brains were better than banking. (That's a no brainer, as these no brainers in banking might say.) But I didn't quite know which bit of the brain or way of prodding it would be best for me. If you'd asked me a year or three ago, I'd have said I liked babies, computers and cognition but I couldn't have wired them together into anything interesting. Now, I have a field, a topic and supervisors too. (It just remains to get funding.. ah!)
A neuroconstructivist investigation of object knowledge and action in development and in developmental disorders.Supervisors: Denis Mareschal, Michael Thomas[more]
Hansen, P., Stein, J., Orde, S., Winter, J., and Talcott, J. (2001). Are dyslexics' visual deficits limited to measures of dorsal stream function? NeuroReport, 12(7):1527-1530. Mareschal, D., Plunkett, K., and Harris, P. (1999). A computational and neuropsychological account of object-oriented behaviours in infancy. Developmental Science, 2:306-317. Paul, B., Stiles, J., Passarotti, A., Bavar, N., and Bellugi, U. (2002). Face and place processing Williams syndrome: evidence for a dorsal-ventral dissociation. NeuroReport, 13(9):1115-1119. Spencer, J., O'Brien, J., Riggs, K., Braddick, O., Atkinson, J., and Wattam-Bell, J. (2000). Motion processing in autism: evidence for a dorsal stream deficiency. NeuroReport, 11(12):2765-2767.
I'll probably refer to this book a fair bit too: