Department of Cognitive Science

Publications

Publications

Appleby-Arnold, S., Brockdorff, N., & Callus, C. (2021). Developing a “culture of disaster preparedness”: The citizens’ view. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. Vol. 56, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102133

Appleby-Arnold, S., Brockdorff, N., Jakovljev, I., & Zdravković, S. (2021). Disaster preparedness and cultural factors: a comparative study in Romania and Malta. Disasters. Vol. 45, p640-690 https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12433

Appleby-Arnold, S., Brockdorff, N., Jakovljev, I., & Zdravković, S. (2018). Applying cultural values to encourage disaster preparedness: Lessons from a low-hazard country, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 31, 37-44.

Bülthoff, I., Mohler, B. J. & Thornton, I. M. (2018). Face recognition of full-bodied avatars by active observers in a virtual environment. Vision Research. DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2017.12.001

Kim, S., Mitterer, H., & Cho, T. (2028). A time course of prosodic modulation in phonological inferencing: The case of Korean post-obstruent tensing. PLoS One, 13, 1-28. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0202912

Mitterer, H & Reinisch, E. (2023): Selective adaptation of German /r/: A role for perceptual saliency. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. 85(1):222-233. doi: 10.3758/s13414-022-02603-2. Epub 2022 Dec 7.

Mitterer, H. (2022). A ‘names-as-fixed-effect fallacy’ in studies of name-based racial discrimination. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(38), e2209603119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2209603119

Mitterer, H. (2018). The singleton-geminate distinction can be rate dependent: Evidence from Maltese. Laboratory Phonology, 9, . doi:10.5334/labphon.66

Mitterer, H. (2018). Not all geminates are created equal: Evidence from Maltese glottal consonants. Journal of Phonetics, 66, 28-44. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2017.09.003

Mitterer, H., Reinisch, E., & McQueen, J.M. (2018). Allophones, not phonemes in spoken-word recognition Journal of Memory and Language, 98, 77-92. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2017.09.005

Mitterer, H., & Reinisch, E. (2017). Surface forms trump underlying representations in functional generalizations in speech perception: The case of german devoiced stops. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 32, 1133-1147. doi:10.1080/23273798.2017.1286361

Mitterer, H., & Reinisch, E. (2017). Visual speech influences speech perception immediately but not automatically. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 79, 660-678. doi:10.3758/s13414-016-1249-6

Nguyen, T. T. N., Vuong, Q. C., Mather, G., & Thornton, I. M. (2020). Ensemble Coding of Crowd Speed Using Biological Motion. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-020-02163-3

Prpic, V., Kniestedt, I., Camilleri, E., Maureira, M. G., Kristjánsson, Á., & Thornton, I. M. (2019). A serious game to explore human foraging in a 3D environment. PLoS ONE 14(7):https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219827

Reid, I.D., Appleby-Arnold, S., Brockdorff, N., Jakovljev, I., & Zdravković, S. (2020). Developing a model of perceptions of security and insecurity in the context of crime. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. Vol. 27, p620-636. https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2020.1742235

Reinisch, E., & Mitterer, H. (2022). Phonetics and eye-tracking. In J. Setter & R. A. Knight (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Phonetics (pp. 457–479). Cambridge University Press.

Sammut, G., Buhagiar, L. J., Mifsud, R., DeGiovanni, K., & Brockdorff, N. (2022). Attitude polarization and closed-mindedness: The immigration issue in Malta from 2010 to 2020. In F. M. Moghaddam & M. J. Hendricks (Eds.), Contemporary immigration: Psychological perspectives to address challenges and inform solutions (pp. 123–141). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000294-007

Sammut G, Mifsud R., and Brockdorff, N. (2022) The Role of Worldviews in Predicting Support for Recreational Cannabis. Frontiers in Psychology. 13:880537. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.880537

Sammut, G., Mifsud, R. & Brockdorff, N. (2021) Introspective Projection: Prototypical Representations of Policing in the Service of Rule of Law. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-021-09632-w

Sciberras, C., & Mitterer, H. (2022). Limits of audience design: Epenthetic glottal stops in Maltese. Laboratory Phonology, 13(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.16995/labphon.6441

Thornton, I. M., Tagu, J., Zdravković, S., & Kristjánsson, Á. (2021). The Predation Game: Does dividing attention affect patterns of human foraging?. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 6(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-021-00299-w
 
Thornton, I. M., Vuong, Q. C., & Pilz, K. S. (2021). A search advantage for horizontal targets in dynamic displays. i-Perception, 12(2) https://doi.org/10.1177/20416695211004616

Thornton, I. M., & Horowitz, T. S. (2020). Searching through alternating sequences: Working memory and inhibitory tagging mechanisms revealed using the MILO task. i-Perception, 11(5). https://doi.org/10.1177/2041669520958018 

Thornton, I. M., Nguyen, T. T. N., & Kristjansson, A. (2020). Foraging Tempo: Human run patterns in multiple target search are constrained by the rate of successive responses. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology,
https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820961640

Thornton, I. M. & Zdravković, S. (2020). Searching for Illusory Motion. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 82: 44-62. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-019-01750-3

Thornton, I. M., Srismith, D., Oxner, M., & Hayward, W. G. (2018). Other-race faces are given more weight than own-race faces when assessing the composition of crowds. Vision Research. DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2018.02.008

Thornton I. M. (2018). Stepping into the genetics of biological motion processing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 115 (8) 1687-1689; DOI:10.1073/pnas.1722625115

Zdravković, S., Reid, I.D., Jakovljev, I., Appleby-Arnold, S., Dingli, A., & Brockdorff, N., (2018). I am afraid - measuring fear of crime through a smart phone app. MS under review

Zammit, C. (2019). “Maleth: A Tale of Havens, Hostilities and Responsibility” in Maleth / Haven / Port: Heteropias of Evocation. Mousse Publishing.  

Zammit, C. (2021). “Between Joy and Terror: On Being Caught Out” in Darkness at Noon (Exhibition Catalogue)

Zammit, C. (2023). “Alterita” in Borg, K. & Farrugia, R. Xi tfisser tkun bniedem? Malta: Horizons Publications

Zammit, C. (2023). “My Research in Experiential Phenomenology”, in Share: Philosophy Sharing Foundation, Issue 19.


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