About
Dr. Brett Cochrane is a Lecturer at the School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen. His research investigates how humans extract environmental information through attention, memory, and cognition systems, employing methods like eye movement tracking, brain electrophysiology, and behavioral analysis.
- Education: Not explicitly mentioned
- Teaching: PS1009 (Introductory Psychology), PS3524 (Cognitive Neuroscience), PS4040 (Current Topics in Psychological Studies)
His research focuses on visual imagery-attention interactions, 3D spatial cognition, and cognitive control mechanisms, particularly in visual search tasks. Publications highlight effects like distractor-induced quitting, imagery-modulated attention, and depth perception dynamics.
Key article trends span visual attention, mental imagery, and cognitive neuroscience, with subfields including spatial processing, repetition priming, and top-down instruction effects. He supervises PhD students in Psychology and uses interdisciplinary methods to study perception-cognition interplay.
