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Nick Berggren is an Associate Tutor at the School of Psychological Sciences. His research focuses on cognitive processes involving attentional control, anxiety effects on visual perception, and neural mechanisms underlying working memory and visual search. He employs behavioral experiments and electrophysiological methods (e.g., ERP studies) to investigate how anxiety influences attentional biases, memory filtering, and task performance.
Research interests include the interplay between emotion and cognition, particularly how anxiety modulates attentional capture, template-based search, and spatial filtering. He has contributed to understanding how threat-related stimuli interact with cognitive load and memory systems, revealing anxiety’s role in both enhancing and disrupting attentional processes.
His recent work highlights trends in studying anxiety’s impact on visual processing efficiency, with implications for clinical psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Notable findings include the role of trait anxiety in enhancing threat detection while impairing distractor suppression in working memory tasks.
No scientific awards or grants are explicitly mentioned. He has collaborated extensively with colleagues like Martin Eimer and Nazanin Derakhshan on projects exploring attentional control and cognitive-emotional interactions. No formal advisees or lab affiliations are listed in the provided materials.
