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This scheme aims to help finance postgraduate and postdoctoral research in experimental psychology (as defined by the content of The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology).
Awards will pay for travel to and accommodation at another institution outside an individual's academic base. The purpose of the visit may be to collect data, to design studies to be carried out after the end of the trip or (given suitable justification) merely to allow the visitor to learn at first hand about experimental procedures employed in the host laboratory. However, awards will not be granted for work which forms an integral part of an existing Ph.D research project, nor for work which would normally be funded by other bodies (e.g. the applicant's award-granting body or home institution). Applicants must be (a) registered for a Ph.D. or (b) postdoctoral workers who received their Ph.D within the previous five years. Applicants may be of any nationality. It is a further condition of the award that either the researcher's home institution or the institution to be visited, or both, must be in the UK.
Applicants who are funded by a Research Council, departmental or other studentship, or a research grant, are expected to seek funding towards the visit from these sources before applying to EPS, or to explain why they are not able to do so.
Grants will be for a maximum of £1200 to any individual. In addition, the Society will, on receipt of appropriate invoices, reimburse the institution visited by the student for actual costs incurred as a consequence of the visit up to a maximum of £100.
Candidates for the awards should submit their proposals to the Administrator prior to one of two submission dates 1st March and 1st September. The proposals will be circulated to Committee members with the Agenda of the Spring and Autumn Committee meetings for consideration at these meetings respectively. Retrospective applications will not be considered and study visits may not start until two months after the submission date (ie 1st May or 1st November).
Applications should consist of the following:
- A completed application form (MS Word | PDF).
- A curriculum vitae.
- Short references from two EPS members (one of whom should ideally be the applicant's supervisor, ex-supervisor or grant-holder).
- A letter from the institution to be visited, indicating its willingness to have the applicant and confirming the availability of the relevant research facilities. If this letter is from the Head of the Institution or other person who is unlikely to have day to day contact with the applicant, the letter should indicate who will be supervising the work on a daily basis.
Grants will be allocated by the EPS Committee. Preference will be given to first time applicants.
Holders of Study Visit awards will be required to submit a short report (maximum 1000 words) to the Hon. Secretary within 8 weeks of the end of their visit. This should 1) include an abstract of the research or other activities accomplished, 2) outline how the visit benefited their research, 3) mention any publications planned on the basis of it. The Society will not object if its assistance is acknowledged in any such publications. Should there be any change in details regarding start date, duration or cancellation then the Hon. Secretary must be informed as soon as possible.
Members of the Society may donate money to the Study Visit Fund in the assurance that it will not be used for other society purposes. The EPS Committee wishes to encourage members to consider this possibility seriously.
Study Visit Grants 1995 – 2008
Examples of study-visit grants awarded to postgraduate and recent postdoctoral researchers.
- Mark Gardner, University College London
Study undertaken at Instituto di Psicologia del CNR, Rome, 1995
Subject: At attempt to demonstrate imitation in monkeys
- Lesley Scanlan, U.W.C.C. Cardiff
Study undertaken at Glasgow University, 1995
Subject: Computer simulations of current models of face recognition
- Dino Chincotta, University of Nottingham
Study undertaken at Turun Yliopisto, Turku, 1995/6
Subject: Examining the relationship between speech rate and memory span in bilinguals.
- Michael Lewis, University of Wales, Cardiff
Study undertaken at Aberdeen University, 1996
Subject:
- Kate Cain, Sussex University
Study undertaken at Unversity of Toronto, 1996
Subject: Literacy development and reading comprehension in children
- W J Fear, University of Wales Cardiff
Study undertaken at the University of Amsterdam, 1997
Subject: Bilingual Research
- Petroc Sumner, University of Cambridge
Study undertaken at Makerere Unversity, Uganda, 1997
Subject: Colour Vision
- Sandra-Ilona Suenram, University of Manchester
Study undertaken at University of Northumbria, 1997
Subject: Investigating the effects of glucose and oxygen on memory performance
- Sebastian Tremblay, University of Wales Cardiff
Study undertaken at Katholische Universitaet, Eichstaet, Germany, 1997
Subject: Learning experiences and empirical work.
- E Freeman, University of Bristol
Study undertaken at University of Turku, 1998
Subject: Eye movements during reading and language processing
- Andy Mead, University of Sussex
Study undertaken at University of Crete, 1998
Subject: Effects of drug treatment regimes on the expression of the mmediate early gene product
- Chris Moulin, University of Bristol
Study undertaken at University of Turku, 1998
Subject: Neuro-imaging techniques
- Helen Bird, University of Newcastle
Study undertaken at MRC CBU, Cambridge, 1998
Subject: Semantic Dementia
- Elaine Sweet, University of York
Study undertaken at UNSW, Sydney, 1999
Subject: Telemetry for conditioning experiments
- Daisy Powell, Royal Holloway University of London
Study undertaken at Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 1999
Subject: Evaluation and adaptation of Plaut et al's learning model of reading
- Christina Izura, University of York
Study undertaken at University of Oviedo, Spain, 2000
Subject: Age of acquisition in a bilingual population
- Glynis Bailey, University of New South Wales
Study undertaken at University of York, 2000
Subject: Role of amygdala in event learning
- Julia Carroll, University of York
Study undertaken at University of New England in Armidale, 2000
Subject: Phonological awareness and memory
- Frances Lyons, University of Essex
Study undertaken at University of Exeter, 2000
Subject: The importance of the semantic system in language processing of name retrieval and reading
- Deborah Hall, MRC Institute of Hearing Research, Nottingham
Study undertaken at Eaton-Peabody Laboratory, Boston, 2001
Subject: Stimulus specific responses in multiple auditory cortical fields
- Volker Thoma, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Study undertaken at University of California, Los Angeles, 2001
Subject: Priming of rotated and upright images is mediated by two different representations of objects
- Ruth Filik, University of Derby
Study undertaken at The University of Durham, 2002
Subject: Focus operators and syntactic ambiguity resolution during reading
- Cassandra Gorgati, University of Reading
Study undertaken at University of Wisconsin, 2002
Subject: The extent and nature of putative cannabinoid-opiod interactions in feeding
- Manos Tsakiris, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
Study undertaken at Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Lyon, 2002
Subject: Contribution of afferent and efferent information in self-recognition
- Beth Jefferies, University of Bristol
Study undertaken at MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, 2002
Subject: Role of Semantics in verbal short-term memory
- Sarah White, University of Durham
Study undertaken at University of Massachusetts, 2002
Subject: Non-foveal processing of text during reading
- David George, University of Cardiff
Study undertaken at Indiana University, 2003
Subject: Conditional attentional processes
- Jacinta O’Shea, University of Oxford
Study undertaken at Harvard University, 2003
Subject: Combined EEG/TMS studies of cognition
- Penny Hill, University of Oxford
Study undertaken at University of Western Australia, 2003
Subject: Auditory frequency discrimination in children with specific language impairment
- Paul Sutcliffe, University of Oxford
Study undertaken at University of Western Australia, 2003
Subject: The effect of stimulant medication on auditory processing performance in children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Anna Law, University of Aberdeen
Study undertaken at University of Ferrara, 2003
Subject: The effects of interruptions on multitasking in brain-damaged patients
- Sarah Haywood, University of Edinburgh
Study undertaken at State University of New York, 2003
Subject: Eye-tracking techniques in dialogue research
- Matthew Whalley, University College London
Study undertaken at the University of Pittsburgh, 2003
Subject: Neural correlates of a chronic pain experience in patients with Fibromyalgia
- Kazuhiro Goto, University of Exeter
Study undertaken at Tufts University, 2003
Subject: Avian visual cognition
- Barbara Juhasz, University of Massachusetts
Study undertaken at University of Durham, 2004
Subject: The effects of linguistic difficulty on binocular fixation disparity in reading
- Markus Bindemann, University of Glasgow
Study undertaken at University of Utrecht, 2004
Subject: Attention and TMS
- Julie Goldstein, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Study undertaken at Windhoek, Namibia, 2004
Subject: Evidence of a non-perceptual mechanism supplied by cross-cultural research
- Ines Goerendt, University of Hamburg, Germany
Study undertaken at MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, 2004
Subject: Towards an integrated biopsychosocial approach to personality: Linking reward processing, neural systems and individual differences
- Cristina Rosazza, Sissa-Isas, Via Beirut 2-4, Trieste, Italy
Study undertaken at University of Manchester, 2004
Subject: Qualitative different forms of pure alexia: A comparison between Italian and English patients
- Lisa Archibald, University of Durham
Phase 1: Study undertaken at FC Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, The Netherlands, 2004. Phase 2: Study undertaken at University of Edinburgh, 2005
Subject: Cognitive neuroimaging in psychological research
- Lorna Halliday, University of Oxford
Study undertaken at University of Lund, Sweden, 2005
Subject: Auditory maturation in children with mild to moderate sensorineural hearing loss
- Douglas Martin, University of Aberdeen
Study undertaken at University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2005
Subject: Is mimicry reliant on executive processes?
- Daniela Balslev, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark
Study undertaken at University of Birmingham, 2005
Subject: Optimal coil orientation for transcranial magnetic stimulation
- Liat Hadar, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Study undertaken at University College London, 2005
Subject: The effects of cognitive load on advice taking and giving
- Shane Lindsay, University of Essex
Study undertaken at Emory University, Atlanta, USA, 2005
Subject: Perceptual processing in abstract concepts and abstract language
- Maja Roch, University of Padua, Italy
Study undertaken at University of Bristol, 2005
Subject: The role of phonological awareness and short term memory on reading skills of individuals with Downs syndrom
- Mako Hirotani, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Study undertaken at University of Durham, 2005
Subject: Eye-movements in reading Japanese sentences
- Liz Pellicano, University of Oxford
Study undertaken at University of Western Australia, Perth, 2006
Subject: Longitudinal follow-up of cognitive skills in children with autism: Predicting social and communicative functioning
- Courtenay Frazier Norbury, University of Oxford
Study undertaken at Yale University, USA, 2006
Subject: Social visual pursuit in communication disorders
- Lucy Cragg, University of Oxford
Study undertaken at University of Western Australia, Perth, 2006
Subject: Neural correlates of inhibition in school-age children
- Hazel Blythe, University of Durham
Study undertaken at University of Massachusetts, USA, 2006
Subject: The effect of within-word distance between transposed letters
- Jasna Martinovic, University Leipzig, Germany
Study undertaken at University of Liverpool, 2006
Subject: Processing of ordinal and metric cues in depth perception — cue combination or biasing through prior information?
- James Moore, University College London
Study undertaken at Harvard University, USA, 2006 & 2007
Subject: Agency, pseudo-agency and intentional binding
- Zara Bergström, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Study undertaken at Centre for Advanced Neuroimaging at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany, 2006
Subject: Neural correlates of inhibitory forgetting
- Manon Jones, University of Edinburgh
Study undertaken at University of Wales, Bangor, 2006
Subject: Implicit semantic activation in two languages mediated by a single lexical item
- Benoit Bediou, University of Lyon, France
Study undertaken at MRC-CBU, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, 2007
Subject: How personality modulates ERP response to facial expressions in healthy subjects
- Anna Wilkinson, University of York
Study undertaken at Duke University, Durham, 2007
Subject: Investigating numerosity in lemurs
- Pascale Engel, University of York
Study undertaken at University of São Paulo State, Brazil, 2007
Subject: Are working memory measures free of socio-economic influences? Evidence from children from different socio-economical backgrounds
- Sandra Quinn, University of Stirling
Study undertaken at Cornell University, USA, 2007
Subject: The effect of interval size on the optimal tempo for pieces of music
- Evelyn Mohr, University of Durham
Study undertaken at Centre for Medical Rehabilitation, Oeninger Weg, Germany, 2007
Subject: How does colour information influence the naming process in aphasic patients suffering from anomia
- Kinga Morsanyi, University of Plymouth
Study undertaken at University of California, Los Angeles, 2007
Subject: The development of analogical reasoning in autistic children
- Lee Howard de-wit, University of Durham
Study undertaken at University College London, 2007
Subject: Can fMRI pattern classification techniques be used to decode which areas of the brain see the hollow face illusion?
- Alessandro Grecucci, International School for Advanced Studies, Italy
Study undertaken at Birmingham University, 2007
Subject: Influence of working memory on visual selection in the content of cross modal emotion stimuli.
- Cristinia Green Heredia, University of Malaga, Spain
Study undertaken at Neuroscience and Apashia Research Unit, Manchester University, 2007
Subject: The use of TMS in simulating aphasia.
- Eva Marinus, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Study undertaken at University of Oxford
Subject: A cross linguistic study of sublexical effects on children's reading.
- Michael Smith, University of Western Australia
Study undertaken at Northumbria University, 2008
Subject: An event-related potential investigation of the ‘recollection’ and ‘familiarity’ components of recognition memory subsequent to glucose ingestion.
- Yuanyuan Zhao, University of Birmingham
Study undertaken at Dalhousie University, 2008
Subject: Luminance effects of cues on inhibition of return: Sensitivity as a function of response time
- Lisa Henderson, University of York
Study undertaken at University of Pittsburgh, USA, 2008
Subject: Using event-related potentials to study language comprehension processes in children
- Aiden Horner, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge
Study undertaken at Stanford University, 2008
Subject: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and repetition priming
- Mark Hurlstone, University of York
Study undertaken at University of Bristol, 2008
Subject: Modelling fill-in and in-fill errors: Constraints for theories of order memory
- Michal Pinhas, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Study undertaken at University of Dundee, 2008
Subject: Spatial biases in symbolic arithmetic
- Josephine Haddon, Cardiff University
Study undertaken at University of Bristol, 2008
Subject: Electrophysiological recordings of prefrontal-hippocampal interactions
- Amy Mulroue, University of Edinburgh
Study undertaken at INSERM, France, 2009
Subject: Online control of aiming movements in Optic Ataxia
- Tracey Ann Brandwood, Cardiff University
Study undertaken at University Medical Centre, Gronigen, 2009
Subject: Walking trajectory problems in patients wiith unilateral visual neglect: Investigating possible causes and prevention techniques
- Elena Florit, University of Padua, Italy
Study undertaken at University of Lancaster, 2009
Subject: A cross-linguistic research project investigating the relations between word reading, reading comprehension and listening comprehension in English and Italian during the early stages of reading acquisition
- Helen Williams, University of Leeds
Study undertaken at Abo Akademi University, Finland, 2009
Subject: Linking metacognitive predictions and recollective experience using neuroimaging techniques
- Victoria Wright, University of Swansea
Study undertaken at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, 2009
Subject: Word length effects in the left and right cerebral hemispheres of readers of pointed and unpointed Hebrew
- Lucia Alba Ferrera, University of Durham
Study undertaken at Washington University, USA, 2009
Subject: Training in diffusion tensor imaging and functional connectivity in the resting brain
- Luciano Buratto, University of Warwick
Study undertaken at MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 2009
Subject: The neural bases of implicit and explicit memory: an fMRI study
- Kumiko Fukumua, University of Dundee
Study undertaken at University of Turku, Finland, 2009
Subject: Effects of gender in a non-gender marking language
- Sarah Smith, University of Leeds
Study undertaken at University of Leige, Belgium, 2009
Subject: Neuroimaging and subjective states of awareness in neuropsychological populations
- Kristof Kovacs, University of Cambridge
Study undertaken at University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2009
Subject: Methodological aspects of the study o group differences in intelligence
- Nikole Patson, University of Pittsburgh
Study undertaken at University of Glasgow, 2009
Subject: The role of verbs in the focus of complex reference objects
- Elizabeth Schotter, University of California, San Diego
Study undertaken at University of Southampton, 2009
Subject: Binocular coordination of eye movements during reading
- Olga Zubko, University of Kent, Canterbury
Study undertaken at Harvard Medical School, 2009
Subject: Rehabilitation of hemi-spatial neglect and prosopagnosia
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