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Convenor

Professor Nigel Foreman, Director of Research, Psychology, Middlesex University, London, UK [convenor]

 [cognitive, experimental, biological psychology, ethics]

Lectures in cognitive neuropsychology. Investigates the use of virtual environments (VEs) to assess cognitive spatial skills; examination of brain damage and spatial consequences of disability using VEs; distance underestimation in VEs; teaching of historical chronology using virtual fly-throughs; perception of incomplete (Gollin) figures; ethics in research.

Selected publications:

*Foreman, N. P., & Gillett, R. (Eds.) (1997). Handbook of Spatial Research Paradigms and Methodologies. Volumes 1 and 2. Psychology Press; Hove, UK.

*Chihman, V., Foreman, N., Merkuljev, A., Pronin, S., & Shelepin, Y. (2007). The Gollin Test and the parameters of incomplete contour figures at threshold. Perception, 35, 11, 1441-1457.

*Foreman, N., Korallo, L., Newson, D. & Sarantos, N. (2008) The incorporation of challenge enhances the learning of chronology from a virtual display. Journal of Virtual Reality. 12, 107-113.

 *Sandamas, G., Foreman, N. & Coulson, M. (2009). Input device training reinstates active benefit in children when exploring virtual environments. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 9, 96-108.