Professor Dylan Jones

OBE BSc (Tech) PhD DSc Wales AcSS

Professor

: jonesdm@cardiff.ac.uk
: Tower Building, 70 Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT

Research summary

Distraction is the price we pay for being able to focus on an event of interest while also gleaning some information from other sources of information. This arrangement has the undoubted advantage of allowing flexibility and adaptability – we can quickly move to new or potentially significant events – but it does mean that extraneous events of no significance can 'capture’ attention. Distraction from sound is particularly pervasive because we are obliged to process sound – whether we want to or not. Very low levels of sound can be quite damaging to cognitive performance, deficits of 20-30% being commonly found in the laboratory. Distraction seems to be a function of the extent to which the focal task shares type of processing with the obligatory processing of the irrelevant sound.

Short-term memory is commonly regarded as one of the fundamental building blocks of human cognition; a processing primitive on which complex behaviours rely, and limits to whose capacity place constraints on the speed and accuracy of mental skill. This second theme of research seeks to question the 'processing primitive’ status of short-term memory and instead tries to understand short-term memory behaviour as a product of sensory-perceptual analysis and motor planning behaviour. Key phenomena of short-term memory -- including the effects of word-length, phonological similarity, modality, irrelevant sound, grouping, word frequency – are reinterpreted in terms of the character of motor planning behaviour and the constraints of mapping perceptual organisation on serial motor plans, as well as the complexity and error-prone nature of motor plans

Undergraduate education

BSc (Tech) Occupational Psychology, UWIST Cardiff

Postgraduate education

PhD UWIST Cardiff

Awards/External Committees

Member, Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Fellow of the British Psychological Society (FBPS)

Academician Academy of Social Science (AcSS)

Adjunct Professor, University of Western Australia

Employment

1974-1976: University of Oxford, Research Assistant

1976-1982: Lecturer, Department of Applied Psychology, UWIST

1982-1988: Senior Lecturer, Applied Psychology, UWIST

1988-1992: Reader, University of Wales College of Cardiff

2003-2012: Head of School of Psychology, Cardiff University

1992-present: Professor (Personal Chair), Cardiff University

2020

Morgan, P.et al. 2020. Distraction for the eye and ear. Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science (10.1080/1463922X.2020.1712493)

2018

Jones, D. and Macken, W. 2018. In the beginning was the deed: verbal short-term memory as object-oriented action. Current Directions In Psychological Science 27(5), pp. 351-356. (10.1177/0963721418765796)
Hanczakowski, M., Beaman, C. P. and Jones, D. M. 2018. Learning through clamor: The allocation and perception of study time in noise. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 147(7), pp. 1005-1022. (10.1037/xge0000449)

2017

Hanczakowski, M., Beaman, C. P. and Jones, D. M. 2017. When distraction benefits memory through semantic similarity. Journal of Memory and Language 94, pp. 61-74. (10.1016/j.jml.2016.11.005)

2016

Macken, B.et al. 2016. Memory as embodiment: the case of modality and serial short-term memory. Cognition 155, pp. 113-124. (10.1016/j.cognition.2016.06.013)
Hughes, R. W.et al. 2016. Perceptual-motor determinants of auditory-verbal serial short-term memory. Journal of Memory and Language 90, pp. 126-146. (10.1016/j.jml.2016.04.006)
Hanczakowski, M., Beaman, C. P. and Jones, D. M. 2016. Negative priming in free recall reconsidered. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 42(5), pp. 686-699. (10.1037/xlm0000192)
Beaman, C. P. and Jones, D. M. 2016. The item versus the object in memory: on the implausibility of overwriting as a mechanism for forgetting in short-term memory. Frontiers in Psychology 7, article number: 341. (10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00341)

2015

Marsh, J. E.et al. 2015. Erroneous and veridical recall are not two sides of the same coin: evidence from semantic distraction in free recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 41(6), pp. 1728-1740. (10.1037/xlm0000121)
Taylor, J. C., Macken, W. J. and Jones, D. M. 2015. A matter of emphasis: linguistic stress habits modulate serial recall. Memory & Cognition 43(3), pp. 520-537. (10.3758/s13421-014-0466-2)
Macken, W. J., Taylor, J. C. and Jones, D. M. 2015. Limitless capacity: a dynamic object-oriented approach to short-term memory. Frontiers in Psychology 6, article number: 293. (10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00293)
Marsh, J. E.et al. 2015. Distraction control processes in free recall: benefits and costs to performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 41(1), pp. 118-133. (10.1037/a0037779)

2014

Marsh, J. E.et al. 2014. Boundaries of semantic distraction: dominance and lexicality act at retrieval. Memory and Cognition 42(8), pp. 1285-1301. (10.3758/s13421-014-0438-6)
Macken, B., Taylor, J. C. and Jones, D. M. 2014. Language and short-term memory: the role of perceptual-motor affordance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 40(5), pp. 1257-1270. (10.1037/a0036845)
Ljungberg, J. K.et al. 2014. 'What's in a name?' ‘No more than when it's mine own’. Evidence from auditory oddball distraction. Acta Psychologica 150, pp. 161-166. (10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.05.009)
Beaman, C. P., Hanczakowski, M. and Jones, D. M. 2014. The effects of distraction on metacognition and metacognition on distraction: evidence from recognition memory. Frontiers in Psychology 5 (10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00439)

2013

Maidment, D. W., Macken, W. J. and Jones, D. M. 2013. Modalities of memory: is reading lips like hearing voices?. Cognition 129(3), pp. 471-493. (10.1016/j.cognition.2013.08.017)
Hughes, R. W.et al. 2013. Cognitive control of auditory distraction: Impact of task difficulty foreknowledge and working memory capacity supports duplex-mechanism account. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 39(2), pp. 539-553. (10.1037/a0029064)
Marsh, J. E.et al. 2013. Auditory distraction eliminates retrieval induced forgetting. Experimental Psychology 60(5), pp. 368-375. (10.1027/1618-3169/a000210)
Beaman, C. P.et al. 2013. Memory as discrimination: what distraction reveals. Memory and Cognition 41(8), pp. 1238-1251. (10.3758/s13421-013-0327-4)
Jones, D. m., Hanczakowski, M. and Beaman, C. P. 2013. Auditory distraction in memory tasks: Can it be controlled?. Presented at: INTER-NOISE 13,, Innsbruck, AustriaProceedings of INTER-NOISE, Innsbruck. Institute of Noise Control Engineering. pp. 6340-6349.
Marsh, J. E.et al. 2013. Auditory distraction compromises random generation. Experimental Psychology 1(-1), pp. 1-14. (10.1027/1618-3169/a000198)

2012

Vachon, F.et al. 2012. Nonexplicit change detection in complex dynamic settings: what eye movements reveal. Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 54(6), pp. 996-1007. (10.1177/0018720812443066)
Marsh, J. E.et al. 2012. Inhibitory control in memory: Evidence for negative priming in free recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 38(5), pp. 1377-1388. (10.1037/a0027849)
Jones, D. M., Marsh, J. E. and Hughes, R. W. 2012. Retrieval from memory: Vulnerable or inviolable?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 38(4), pp. 905-922. (10.1037/a0026781)
Ljungberg, J. K.et al. 2012. Listen out! Behavioural and subjective responses to verbal warnings. Applied Cognitive Psychology 26(3), pp. 451-461. (10.1002/acp.2818)
Vachon, F., Hughes, R. W. and Jones, D. M. 2012. Broken expectations: Violation of expectancies, not novelty, captures auditory attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 38(1), pp. 164-177. (10.1037/a0025054)
Kozlov, M. D., Hughes, R. W. and Jones, D. M. 2012. Gummed-up memory: Chewing gum impairs short-term recall. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 65(3), pp. 501-513. (10.1080/17470218.2011.629054)
Tremblay, S.et al. 2012. Disruption of verbal-spatial serial memory by extraneous air-traffic speech. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition 1(2), pp. 73-79. (10.1016/j.jarmac.2012.04.004)
Beaman, C. P., Marsh, J. E. and Jones, D. M. 2012. Analyzing the meaning of background speech is obligatory, distraction by meaning is not. Presented at: Euronoise 2012: Ninth European Conference on Noise Control, Prague, Czech Republic, 10-13 June 2012.

2011

Vachon, F.et al. 2011. Exploiting the auditory modality in decision support: Beneficial "warning" effects and unavoidable costs. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 55(1), pp. 1402-1406. (10.1177/1071181311551292)
Hughes, R. W., Marsh, J. E. and Jones, D. M. 2011. Role of serial order in the impact of talker variability on short-term memory: testing a perceptual organization-based account. Memory & Cognition 39(8), pp. 1435-1447. (10.3758/s13421-011-0116-x)

2010

Jones, D. M., Hughes, R. W. and Macken, W. J. 2010. Auditory distraction and serial memory: The avoidable and the ineluctable. Noise and Health 12(49), pp. 201-209. (10.4103/1463-1741.70497)
Jones, D. M.et al. 2010. Capturing and Unmasking the Mask in the Auditory Attentional Blink. Experimental Psychology 57(5), pp. 346-353. (10.1027/1618-3169/a000041)
Marsh, J. E. and Jones, D. M. 2010. Cross-modal distraction by background speech: What role for meaning?. Noise and Health 12(49), pp. 210-216. (10.4103/1463-1741.70499)

2009

Hughes, R. W., Marsh, J. E. and Jones, D. M. 2009. Perceptual-gestural (mis)mapping in serial short-term memory: The impact of talker variability. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 35(6), pp. 1411-1425. (10.1037/a0017008)
Macken, W. J., Phelps, F. G. and Jones, D. M. 2009. What causes auditory distraction?. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 16(1), pp. 139-144. (10.3758/PBR.16.1.139)
Marsh, J. E., Hughes, R. W. and Jones, D. M. 2009. Interference by process, not content, determines semantic auditory distraction. Cognition 110(1), pp. 23-38. (10.1016/j.cognition.2008.08.003)
Perham, N., Marsh, J. E. and Jones, D. M. 2009. Syntax and serial recall: How language supports short-term memory for order. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 62(7), pp. 1285-1293. (10.1080/17470210802635599)
Maybery, M. T.et al. 2009. Binding of verbal and spatial features in auditory working memory. Journal of Memory and Language 61(1), pp. 112-133. (10.1016/j.jml.2009.03.001)

2008

Woodward, A. J., Macken, W. J. and Jones, D. M. 2008. Linguistic familiarity in short-term memory: A role for (co-)articulatory fluency?. Journal of Memory and Language 58(1), pp. 48-65. (10.1016/j.jml.2007.07.002)
Marsh, J. E., Vachon, F. and Jones, D. M. 2008. When does between-sequence phonological similarity promote irrelevant sound disruption?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 34(1), pp. 243-248. (10.1037/0278-7393.34.1.243)
Parmentier, F. B. R.et al. 2008. The perceptual determinants of repetition learning in auditory space. Journal of Memory and Language 58(4), pp. 978-997. (10.1016/j.jml.2008.02.001)
Jones, D. M.et al. 2008. Varieties of auditory distraction. Presented at: Performance: 9th International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem (ICBEN) 2008, Foxwoods, CT, Mashantucket, Foxwoods, CT, 21-25 July 2008 Presented at Griefahn, B. ed.ICBEN 2008: The 9th Congress of the International Commission on the Biological Effects of Noise: Noise as a Public Health Problem. Dortmund: IfADo - Institut für Arbeitsphysiologie an der Universität Dortmund pp. 362-368.
Marsh, J. E., Hughes, R. W. and Jones, D. M. 2008. Auditory distraction in semantic memory: A process-based approach. Journal of Memory and Language 58(3), pp. 682-700. (10.1016/j.jml.2007.05.002)
Burton, J., Macken, W. J. and Jones, D. M. 2008. Linkages between auditory perception and action: Acoustic affordances. International Journal of Psychology 43(3-4), pp. 306-306.

2007

Perham, N. R., Banbury, S. P. and Jones, D. M. 2007. Do realistic reverberation levels reduce auditory distraction?. Applied Cognitive Psychology 21(7), pp. 839-847. (10.1002/acp.1300)
Hughes, R. W., Vachon, F. and Jones, D. M. 2007. Disruption of short-term memory by changing and deviant sounds: support for a duplex-mechanism account of auditory distraction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 33(6), pp. 1050-1061. (10.1037/0278-7393.33.6.1050)
Vachon, F., Tremblay, S. and Jones, D. M. 2007. Task-set reconfiguration suspends perceptual processing: evidence from an attentional blink in spatial and non-spatial domains. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 33(2), pp. 330-347. (10.1037/0096-1523.33.2.330)
Jones, D. M., Hughes, R. W. and Macken, W. J. 2007. The phonological store abandoned. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 60(4), pp. 505-511. (10.1080/17470210601147598)
Perham, N., Banbury, S. P. and Jones, D. M. 2007. Reduction in auditory distraction by retrieval strategy. Memory 15(4), pp. 465-473. (10.1080/09658210701288244)
Hodgetts, H. M. and Jones, D. M. 2007. Reminders, alerts and pop-ups: The cost of computer-initiated interruptions. Presented at: Human-Computer Interaction International 2007, Beijing, China, 22-27 July 2007 Presented at Jacko, J. A. ed.Human-Computer Interaction: Interaction Design & Usability - 12th International Conference, HCI International 2007, Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007, Proceedings, Part I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 4550. Berlin: Springer pp. 818-826., (10.1007/978-3-540-73105-4_90)

2006

Hodgetts, H. M. and Jones, D. M. 2006. Contextual cues aid recovery from interruption: the role of associative activation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 32(5), pp. 1120-1132. (10.1037/0278-7393.32.5.1120)
Hodgetts, H. M. and Jones, D. M. 2006. Interruption of the Tower of London task: support for a goal-activation approach. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 135(1), pp. 103-115. (10.1037/0096-3445.135.1.103)
Jones, D. M., Hughes, R. W. and Macken, W. J. 2006. Perceptual organization masquerading as phonological storage: Further support for a perceptual-gestural view of short-term memory. Journal of Memory and Language 54(2), pp. 265-281. (10.1016/j.jml.2005.10.006)
Tremblay, S.et al. 2006. A spatial modality effect in serial memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 32(5), pp. 1208-1215. (10.1037/0278-7393.32.5.1208)
Parmentier, F. B. R.et al. 2006. Organization of visuo-spatial serial memory: interaction of temporal order with spatial and temporal grouping. Psychological Research 70(3), pp. 200-217. (10.1007/s00426-004-0212-7)

2005

Hughes, R. W., Vachon, F. and Jones, D. M. 2005. Auditory attentional capture during serial recall: Violations at encoding of an algorithm-based neural model?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 31(4), pp. 736-749. (10.1037/0278-7393.31.4.736)
Hughes, R. W. and Jones, D. M. 2005. The impact of order incongruence between a task-irrelevant auditory sequence and a task-relevant visual sequence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 31(2), pp. 316-327. (10.1037/0096-1523.31.2.316)
Hodgetts, H. M.et al. 2005. The effects of party line communication on flight task performance. Presented at: Annual Meeting of the Europe Chapter of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Delft, Netherlands, 27-29 October 2004 Presented at De Ward, D. et al. eds.Human factors in design, safety, and management: HFES Europe Chapter. Maastricht: Shaker pp. 327-338.
Tremblay, S., Vachon, F. and Jones, D. M. 2005. Attentional and perceptual sources of the auditory attentional blink. Perception & Psychophysics 67(2), pp. 195-208. (10.3758/BF03206484)
Hughes, R. W., Tremblay, S. and Jones, D. M. 2005. Disruption by speech of serial short-term memory: The role of changing-state vowels. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 12(5), pp. 886-890. (10.3758/BF03196781)
Hodgetts, H. M. and Jones, D. M. 2005. Interrupting problem solving: effects of interruption position and complexity. Presented at: 40th Australian Psychological Society Annual Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 28 September - 2 October 2005 Presented at Katsikitis, M. ed.Past reflections, future directions: proceedings of the 40th Australian Psychological Society Annual Conference, Melbourne, Australia. Melbourne: Australian Psychological Society

2004

Tremblay, S.et al. 2004. Functional similarities and dissimilarities between verbal and spatial information in short-term memory [Abstract]. International Journal of Psychology 39(5-6), pp. 412. (10.1080/00207594.2004.20040812)
Parmentier, F. B. R., Maybery, M. T. and Jones, D. M. 2004. Temporal grouping in auditory spatial serial memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 11(3), pp. 501-507. (10.3758/BF03196602)
Jones, D. M., Macken, W. J. and Nicholls, A. P. 2004. The phonological store of working memory: is it phonological, and is it a store?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 30(3), pp. 656-674. (10.1037/0278-7393.30.3.656)
Parmentier, F. B., Tremblay, S. and Jones, D. M. 2004. Exploring the suffix effect in serial visuospatial short-term memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 11(2), pp. 289-295. (10.3758/BF03196572)
Banbury, S. P.et al. 2004. A cognitive streaming account of situation awareness. In: Banbury, S. P. and Tremblay, S. eds. A Cognitive Approach to Situation Awareness: Theory and Application. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 117-137.
Perham, N., Banbury, S. P. and Jones, D. M. 2004. The Susceptibility of a Call Center-Like Task to Disruption by Extraneous Sound: The Role of Semantic Relatedness. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 48(16), pp. 1958-1962. (10.1177/154193120404801635)

2003

Macken, W. J. and Jones, D. M. 2003. Reification of phonological storage. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Section A: Human Experimental Psychology 56(8), pp. 1279-1288. (10.1080/02724980245000052)
Hodgetts, H. M. and Jones, D. M. 2003. Interruptions in the Tower of London task: Can preparation minimise disruption?. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 47(8), pp. 1000-1004. (10.1177/154193120304700810)
Houghton, R. J., Macken, W. J. and Jones, D. M. 2003. Attentional modulation of the visual motion after-effect has a central cognitive locus: Evidence for interference by the post-categorical on the pre-categorical. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 29(4), pp. 731-740. (10.1037/0096-1523.29.4.731)
Hughes, R. W. and Jones, D. M. 2003. A negative order-repetition priming effect: Inhibition of order in unattended auditory sequences?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 29(1), pp. 199-218. (10.1037/0096-1523.29.1.199)
Macken, W. J.et al. 2003. Does auditory streaming require attention? Evidence from attentional selectivity in short-term memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 29(1), pp. 43-51. (10.1037/0096-1523.29.1.43)
Nicholls, A. P.et al. 2003. Visual distraction and visuo-spatial memory: A sandwich effect. Memory 13(3-4), pp. 357-363. (10.1080/09658210344000422)
Ruddle, R. A., Savage, J. C. D. and Jones, D. M. 2003. Levels of Control During a Collaborative Carrying Task. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 12(2), pp. 140-155. (10.1162/105474603321640914)
Hughes, R. W. and Jones, D. M. 2003. Indispensable benefits and unavoidable costs of unattended sound for cognitive functioning. Noise & Health 6(21), pp. 63-76.

2002

Maybery, M. T., Parmentier, F. B. R. and Jones, D. M. 2002. Grouping of list items reflected in the timing of recall: implications for models of serial verbal memory. Journal of Memory and Language 47(3), pp. 360-385. (10.1016/S0749-596X(02)00014-1)
Murray, A. and Jones, D. M. 2002. Articulatory complexity at item boundaries in serial recall: The case of Welsh and English digit span. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 28(3), pp. 594-598. (10.1037/0278-7393.28.3.594)
Nicholls, A. P. and Jones, D. M. 2002. Capturing the suffix: cognitive streaming in immediate serial recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 28(1), pp. 12-28. (10.1037/0278-7393.28.1.12)
Ruddle, R. A., Savage, J. C. D. and Jones, D. M. 2002. Symmetric and asymmetric action integration during cooperative object manipulation in virtual environments. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 9(4), pp. 285-308. (10.1145/586081.586084)
Ruddle, R. A., Savage, J. C. D. and Jones, D. M. 2002. Verbal communication during cooperative object manipulation. Presented at: 4th International Conference on Collaborative Virtual Environments, Bonn, Germany, 30 September - 2 October 2002CVE '02 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Collaborative virtual environments, Bonn, Germany, 30 September - 2 October, 2002. New York: ACM pp. 120-127., (10.1145/571878.571897)
Ruddle, R. A., Savage, J. C. D. and Jones, D. M. 2002. Implementing flexible rules of interaction for object manipulation in cluttered virtual environments. Presented at: ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST '02), Hong Kong, China, 11-13 November 2002VRST '02 Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong, 11-13 November, 2002. New York: ACM pp. 89-96., (10.1145/585740.585756)
Ruddle, R. A., Savage, J. C. D. and Jones, D. M. 2002. Evaluating Rules of Interaction for Object Manipulation in Cluttered Virtual Environments. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 11(6), pp. 591-609. (10.1162/105474602321050721)

2001

Tremblay, S., Macken, W. J. and Jones, D. M. 2001. The impact of broadband noise on serial memory: Changes in band-pass frequency increase disruption. Memory 9(4-6), pp. 323-331. (10.1080/09658210143000010)
Farrand, P., Parmentier, F. B. R. and Jones, D. M. 2001. Temporal-spatial memory: retrieval of spatial information does not reduce recency. Acta Psychologica 106(3), pp. 285-301. (10.1016/S0001-6918(00)00054-8)
Parmentier, F. B.et al. 2001. Task alternation in complex settings from a cognitive psychology standpoint. In: Harris, D. ed. Industrial Ergonomics, HCI, and Applied Cognitive Psychology. Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics Series Vol. 6. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 239-246.
Ruddle, R. A. and Jones, D. M. 2001. Movement in Cluttered Virtual Environments. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 10(5), pp. 511-524. (10.1162/105474601753132687)
Banbury, S. P.et al. 2001. Auditory distraction and short-term memory: Phenomena and practical implications. Human Factors 43(1), pp. 12-29. (10.1518/001872001775992462)
White, J. L.et al. 2001. Eyes in the sky: Human factors and uninhabited air vehicles. Journal of Defence Science 6, pp. 88-94.
Hughes, R. W. and Jones, D. M. 2001. The intrusiveness of sound: Laboratory findings and their implications for noise abatement. Noise & Health 4(13), pp. 51-70.
Ruddle, R. A. and Jones, D. M. 2001. Manual and virtual rotation of three-dimensional object. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied 7(4), pp. 286-296. (10.1037/1076-898X.7.4.286)
Tremblay, S. and Jones, D. M. 2001. Beyond the matrix: A study of interference. Presented at: Third International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics, Edinburgh, UK, 25-27 October 2000 Presented at Harris, D. ed.Industrial Ergonomics, HCI, and Applied Cognitive Psychology. Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics Series Vol. 6. Aldershot: Ashgate pp. 255-263.
Macken, W. J. and Jones, D. M. 2001. Cognitive efficiency in background sound: the importance of conflict of process. In: Harris, D. ed. Industrial Ergonomics, HCI, and Applied Cognitive Psychology., Vol. 6. Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics Series Vol. 6. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 293-299.

2000

Tremblay, S.et al. 2000. The irrelevant sound effect: Does speech play a special role?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 26(6), pp. 1750-1754. (10.1037/0278-7393.26.6.1750)
Ruddle, R. A.et al. 2000. The effects of hyperlinks on navigation in virtual environments. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 53(4), pp. 551-581. (10.1006/ijhc.2000.0402)
Jones, D. M.et al. 2000. Interference from degraded auditory stimuli: Linear effects of changing-state in the irrelevant sequence. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 108(3), pp. 1082-1088. (10.1121/1.1288412)
Oswald, C. J. P., Tremblay, S. and Jones, D. M. 2000. Disruption of comprehension by the meaning of irrelevant sound. Memory 8(5), pp. 345-350. (10.1080/09658210050117762)
Jones, D. M. and Tremblay, S. 2000. Interference in memory by process or content? A reply to Neath (2000). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 7(3), pp. 550-558. (10.3758/BF03214370)
Tremblay, S., Macken, W. J. and Jones, D. M. 2000. Elimination of the word length effect by irrelevant sound revisited. Memory & Cognition 28(5), pp. 841-846. (10.3758/BF03198419)
Parmentier, F. B. R. and Jones, D. M. 2000. Functional characteristics of auditory temporal-spatial short-term memory: Evidence from serial order errors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 26(1), pp. 222-238. (10.1037/0278-7393.26.1.222)
Banbury, S. P. and Jones, D. M. 2000. Driven to distraction: The effects of extraneous speech on aviation-related tasks. Flight Deck International 3, pp. 37-39.

1999

Macken, W. J., Mosdell, N. A. and Jones, D. M. 1999. Explaining the irrelevant-sound effect: Temporal distinctiveness or changing state?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 25(3), pp. 810-814. (10.1037/0278-7393.25.3.810)
Jones, D. M. 1999. The cognitive psychology of auditory distraction: the 1997 BPS Broadbent Lecture. British Journal of Psychology 90(2), pp. 167-187. (10.1348/000712699161314)
Ruddle, R. A., Payne, S. J. and Jones, D. M. 1999. The effects of maps on navigation and search strategies in very-large-scale virtual environments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied 5(1), pp. 54-75. (10.1037/1076-898X.5.1.54)
Jones, D. M.et al. 1999. The effect of task-irrelevant sounds on cognitive performance. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 43(3), pp. 261-265. (10.1177/154193129904300328)
Jones, D. M.et al. 1999. Organizational factors in selective attention: The interplay of acoustic distinctiveness and auditory streaming in the irrelevant sound effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 25(2), pp. 464-473. (10.1037//0278-7393.25.2.464)
Macken, W. J.et al. 1999. Attentional Selectivity in Short-term Memory: Similarity of Process, Not Similarity of Content, Determines Disruption. International Journal of Psychology 34(5-6), pp. 322-327. (10.1080/002075999399639)
Ruddle, R. A., Savage, J. C. D. and Jones, D. M. 1999. Effects of camera configurations on target observation that is performed from an uninhabited air vehicle. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 43(1), pp. 81-85. (10.1177/154193129904300117)
Ruddle, R. A., Huddart, S. A. and Jones, D. M. 1999. Interaction in immersive virtual environments: Rotating objects with an instrumented prop. Presented at: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 43rd Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, USA, 27 September - 1 October 1999Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 43rd Annual Meeting. Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society pp. 1214-1218.
Jones, D. M., Saint-Aubin, J. and Tremblay, S. 1999. Modulation of the Irrelevant Sound Effect by Organizational Factors: Further Evidence from Streaming by Location. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Section A: Human Experimental Psychology 52(3), pp. 545-554. (10.1080/713755832)
Ruddle, R. A., Payne, S. J. and Jones, D. M. 1999. Navigating Large-Scale Virtual Environments: What Differences Occur Between Helmet-Mounted and Desk-Top Displays?. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 8(2), pp. 157-168. (10.1162/105474699566143)
Ruddle, R. A., Payne, S. J. and Jones, D. M. 1999. Spatial knowledge and virtual environments. In: Noyes, J. M. and Cook, M. eds. Interface technology: the leading edge. Industrial Control, Computers, and Communications Series Vol. 16. Baldock, Hertfordshire: Research Studies, pp. 135-146.
Tremblay, S. and Jones, D. M. 1999. Change of intensity fails to produce an irrelevant sound effect: Implications for the representation of unattended sound. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 25(4), pp. 1005-1015. (10.1037/0096-1523.25.4.1005)
Banbury, S. P. and Jones, D. M. 1999. 'Irrelevant Sound Effect': The effects of extraneous sounds on aircrew performance. In: Harris, D. ed. Transportation systems, medical ergonomics and training. Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics Vol. 3. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 199-206.

1998

Beaman, C. P. and Jones, D. M. 1998. Irrelevant sound disrupts order information in free recall as in serial recall. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Section A: Human Experimental Psychology 51(3), pp. 615-636. (10.1080/027249898391558)
Tremblay, S. and Jones, D. M. 1998. Role of habituation in the irrelevant sound effect: Evidence from the effects of token set size and rate of transition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 24(3), pp. 659-671. (10.1037/0278-7393.24.3.659)
Ruddle, R. A., Payne, S. J. and Jones, D. M. 1998. Navigating large-scale "desk-top" virtual buildings: Effects of orientation aids and familiarity. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 7(2), pp. 179-192. (10.1162/105474698565668)
Banbury, S. P., Jones, D. M. and Berry, D. C. 1998. Extending the 'Irrelevant Sound Effect': The effects of extraneous sound on performance in the office and on the flight deck. Presented at: Noise effects '98: 7th International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem, Sydney, Australia, 1998 Presented at Carter, N. and Job, R. F. S. eds.Noise effects '98 : 7th International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem, Sydney, Australia, Vol. 1. Sydney: Noise Effects '98 Pty pp. 381-384.
Banbury, S. P. and Jones, D. M. 1998. Auditory distraction in the workplace: A review of the implications from laboratory studies. Presented at: Contemporary Ergonomics 1998, Cirencester, UK, 1-3 April 1998 Presented at Hanson, M. ed.Contemporary Ergonomics 1998. London: Taylor & Francis pp. 482-486.
Jones, D. M., Tremblay, S. and Alford, D. 1998. Auditory distraction and memory: The role of streaming. Presented at: Noise effects '98: 7th International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem, Sydney, Australia, 1998 Presented at Carter, N. and Job, R. F. S. eds.Noise effects '98 : 7th International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem, Sydney, Australia, Vol. 1. Sydney: Noise Effects '98 Pty pp. 336-339.
Hygge, S., Jones, D. M. and Smith, A. P. 1998. Acoustic determinants of auditory distraction by irrelevant sound. Presented at: Noise effects '98: 7th International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem, Sydney, Australia, 1998 Presented at Carter, N. and Job, R. F. S. eds.Noise effects '98 : 7th International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem, Sydney, Australia, Vol. 1. Sydney: Noise Effects '98 Pty pp. 321-328.

1997

Jones, D. M., Macken, W. J. and Mosdell, N. A. 1997. The role of habituation in the disruption of recall performance by irrelevant sound. British Journal of Psychology 88(4), pp. 549-564. (10.1111/j.2044-8295.1997.tb02657.x)
Ruddle, R. A., Payne, S. J. and Jones, D. M. 1997. Navigating buildings in ''desk-top'' virtual environments: Experimental investigations using extended navigational experience. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied 3(2), pp. 143-159. (10.1037/1076-898X.3.2.143)
Jones, D. M., Macken, W. J. and Harries, C. 1997. Disruption of short-term recognition memory for tones: Streaming or interference?. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Section A: Human Experimental Psychology 50(2), pp. 337-357. (10.1080/027249897392125)
Beaman, C. P. and Jones, D. M. 1997. Role of serial order in the irrelevant speech effect: Tests of the changing-state hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 23(2), pp. 459-471. (10.1037/0278-7393.23.2.459)
Ellis, H. D., Jones, D. M. and Mosdell, N. A. 1997. Intra- and inter-modal repetition priming of familiar faces and voices. British Journal of Psychology 88(1), pp. 143-156. (10.1111/j.2044-8295.1997.tb02625.x)
Wann, J. P.et al. 1997. Virtual environments for the rehabilitation of disorders of attention and movement. In: Riva, G. ed. Virtual Reality in Neuro-Psycho-Physiology: Cognitive, Clinical and Methodological Issues in Assessment and Treatment. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics Vol. 44. Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 157-164.
Jones, D. M., Macen, W. J. and Mosdell, N. A. 1997. Acoustic and organizational factors in the processing of irrelevant sound. Presented at: 7th Oldenburg Symposium on Psychological Acoustics Presented at Schick, A. and Klatte, M. eds.Contributions to Psychological Acoustics VII. Results of the 7th Oldenburg Symposium on Psychological Acoustics. Oldenburg: Bibliotheks- und Informationssystem der Universität Oldenburg, BIS pp. 503-520.

1996

Bridges, A. M. and Jones, D. M. 1996. Word dose in the disruption of serial recall by irrelevant speech: Phonological confusions or changing state?. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology 49(4), pp. 919-939. (10.1080/713755663)
Murray, A. C., Jones, D. M. and Frankish, C. R. 1996. Dialogue design in speech-mediated data-entry: The role of syntactic constraints and feedback. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 45(3), pp. 263-286. (10.1006/ijhc.1996.0052)
Stuart, G. P. and Jones, D. M. 1996. From auditory image to auditory percept: Facilitation through common processes?. Memory & Cognition 24(3), pp. 296-304. (10.3758/BF03213294)
Jones, D. M., Beaman, C. P. and Macken, W. J. 1996. The object-oriented episodic record model. In: Gathercole, S. E. ed. Models of short-term memory. Hove: Psychology Press, pp. 209-238.

1995

Jones, D. M. and Macken, W. J. 1995. Auditory babble and cognitive efficiency: Role of number of voices and their location. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied 1(3), pp. 216-226. (10.1037/1076-898X.1.3.216)
Stuart, G. P. and Jones, D. M. 1995. Priming the Identification of Environmental Sounds. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology 48(3), pp. 741-761. (10.1080/14640749508401413)
Macken, W. J. and Jones, D. M. 1995. Functional characteristics of the inner voice and the inner ear: Single or double agency?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 21(2), pp. 436-448. (10.1037/0278-7393.21.2.436)
Jones, D. M. and Macken, W. J. 1995. Organizational factors in the effect of irrelevant speech: The role of spatial location and timing. Memory & Cognition 23(2), pp. 192-200. (10.3758/BF03197221)
Cowley, C. K. and Jones, D. M. 1995. Voice systems: an inventor's guide. Presented at: CHI '95 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Denver, CO, USA, 7-11 May 1995 Presented at Katz, I., Mack, R. and Marks, L. eds.CHI '95 Companion: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY, USA: ACM pp. 430-431., (10.1145/223355.223770)
Jones, D. M. and Macken, W. J. 1995. Phonological similarity in the irrelevant speech effect: Within- or between-stream similarity?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 21(1), pp. 103-115. (10.1037/0278-7393.21.1.103)
Jones, D. M. 1995. The fate of the unattended stimulus: Irrelevant speech and cognition. Applied Cognitive Psychology 9(7), pp. S23-S38. (10.1002/acp.2350090704)
Jones, D. M.et al. 1995. Functional equivalence of verbal and spatial information in serial short-term memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 21(4), pp. 1008-1018. (10.1037/0278-7393.21.4.1008)
Morris, N. and Jones, D. M. 1995. Cursive transcription errors using restricted displays. Presented at: Contemporary Ergonomics 1995, Canterbury, UK, 4-6 April 1995 Presented at Robertson, S. A. ed.Contemporary Ergonomics, 1995: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Ergonomics Society: University of Kent at Canterbury, 4-6 April 1995. London: Taylor & Francis pp. 99-106.

Funding

2012-2016 SWEDISH COUCIL FOR WORKING LIFE AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Warning! Investigating factors relating to attention and performance with complex alarms in complex settings. (Ljungberg, Parmentier, et al. and Jones, at the University of Umea -- 456,000 Euro).

2012-2016 SWEDISH RESEARCH COUNCIL An empirical investigation of of distraction by vibratory and auditory stimuli. Swedish Research Council (Ljungberg, Parmentier, et al. and Jones, at the University of Umea, 372,00 Euro).

2010-2013 ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL. Embodying cognition: A perceptual-gestural account of storage in short-term memory (with Macken & Hughes, £457, 036)

2010-2011 ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL. Resisting attentional capture: The control of auditory distraction (with Hughes, £99,999)

2009-2015 AUTISM CYMRU (AND OTHERS). Chair and Fellowship in Autism. (£750,000).

2009-2012 ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL: Auditory distraction during semantic processing: A process-oriented view. (£392, 345).

2007-2009 AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL: 'Working memory: The binding of spatial and non-spatial features in the retention of visual and auditory information ($A 307,000, at the University of Western Australia, with Maybery, Van Valkenburg, Parmentier, Kubovy).

2006-2009 QINETIQ PLC. Studentship: Auditory affordance: A link between perception and action. (£103,000, with Macken, Singh).

2006-2009 ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL. 'Verbal short-term memory: Primitive or parasite?’ (£305,000, with Macken)

2006-2009 ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL. Now, where was I? Cognitive models and support mechanisms for interrupted task performance. (£193,342, with Hodgetts).

2005-2007 WELSH ARTS COUNCIL. MindArt (£45,000 with Halligan).

2006-2011 HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING CONCIL FOR WALES. 'Wales Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience’ (£5,190,000 Cardiff co-leader in multicentre bid (with net of £2,000,000 to Cardiff).

2005-2006 ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL. Auditory attentional capture: Stimulus context and task vulnerability (£45,000, with Hughes).

2005-2006 ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL. Attentional selectivity and semantic memory: Studies of auditory distraction.’(£47,000, with Macken & Hughes; ESRC ref: RES-000-22-1526).

2005 MIMEX CLUSTER PROJECT. Project Bid led byGeneral Dynamics in Phase 2 of DIF DTC. (approx £240,000, plus 27% in kind, over 2.5 years, With Patrick).

2004-2006 AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL. Binding in working memory ($A135,000, with Parmentier and Maybery).

2003-2006 MINISTRY OF DEFENCE . Designing integrated displays to support team situation awareness. Funded under the Data and Information Fusion Defence Technology Centre. (£225,000, with Dr. J. Patrick).

2003-2006 DEFENCE TECHNOLOGY CENTRE (General Dynamics and others) (£330, 000 with Dr. Patrick, Howes, Banbury).

2002-2005 ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL. 'Office noise: Acoustic, cognitive and individual determinants of distraction’. (£132, 291, with Banbury).

2002-2004 EUROCONTROL CARE INNOVATIVE ACTIONS (BY COMPETITION WITH QINETIQ AND NLR). 'Cognitive streaming and air traffic management’ (£430, 082).

2002 QINETIQ 'Isolation of further processes that generate task interference based on the cognitive streaming hypothesis’(£25,140, with Macken).

2001-2004 ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL. 'Organisational factors in serial recall: The role of perceptual organisation and rehearsal’ (£170, 179, with Macken).

2000-2002 AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL INTERNATIONAL RESEARCHER EXCHANGE SCHEME. 'Spatial and verbal working memory’ ($A26,900 with Maybery and Morrison).

1999. AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL. 'Working memory: Fundamental processes common to the verbal and spatial modalities?’ ($A 7,000 with Maybery and Cowan).

1999-2001. AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL. 'Auditory-spatial short-term memory’ ($A 116,000 with Maybery and Morrison).

1999-2001 DEFENCE EVALUATION AND RESEARCH AGENCY 'Task alternation as workload’ (£96, 497 with Macken).

1999 BRITISH COUNCIL. Travel Grant (Alliance Scheme): £980

1999 BRITISH COUNCIL. Travel Grant (Alliance Scheme: Anglo French Collaboration): £980.

1998-2001 MINISTRY OF DEFENCE CORPORATE RESEARCH FUND. 'Developing a Cognitive Streaming model of workload’ (£256,600).

1998-2001 ENGINERRING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL 'Case studies of direct interaction with virtual humans in immersive design environments’ (£227,231, with Pham).

1998-2001 DEFENCE EVALUATION AND RESEARCH AGENCY. 'Studies for a cognitive streaming model of workload’ (£140, 000).

1998-2001 DEFENCE EVALUATION AND RESEARCH AGENCY. 'Human factors aspects of remote workstations’ (£140, 000, with Snowden, Howes).

1997-2000 DEFENCE EVALUATION AND RESEARCH AGENCY. 'Air human factors’ (£216,000).

1997-1998 ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL. Navigating discontinuous virtual worlds: The role of cognitive maps and wayfinding aids. (£58, 000, with Howes, Payne).

1997-1998 DEFENCE EVALUATION AND RESEARCH AGENCY. Model of the performance of environmental stressors on aircrew performance’ (£91, 750).

1996-1999 JOINT INFORMATION SYSEMS COMMITTEE OF THE RESEARCH COUNCILS 'A networked virtual laboratory for experimental psychology’ (£288, 000 with Howes).

1995-1998 ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL. 'Irrelevant speech and cognitive efficiency’ (£84, 000).

1995-1996 HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING COUNCIL FOR WALES. 'Virtual environment laboratory’, (£60,000).

1995 THE BRITISH COUNCIL. 'The irrelevant speech effect: Working memory and noise effects upon performance’ (£2,000).

1994-1995: DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY. 'Optimisation of connected word speech recognition with the crew station demonstrator facility’, (£14,100).

1994-1995 DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY. 'Stereopsis and colour in HMD and HUD systems’ (£97,100 and £34,600, with Snowden).

1994-1995 DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY 'Studies of the factor structure of workload’, (£133,700 and £8,400 with Tattersall).

1993-1995: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL. 'Cognitive aspects of auditory distraction’, (£58,100).

1993-1995: DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY (Royal Aerospace Establishment, Farnborough) 'Multiple task performance and the prediction of workload’, (£63,872 Tattersall).

1992-1995: MINISTRY OF DEFENCE (Army Personnel Research Establishment). 'Cognitive processes in planning, plan behaviour and monitoring', (£169,748, with Tattersall, Payne).

1992-1993: DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY (Royal Aerospace Establishment, Farnborough) 'Task combination, workload and the assessment of task interference', (£26,700, with Tattersall).

1991-1994: MINISTRY OF DEFENCE. 'Speech recognition — Feedback and dialogue design’, (£116,000).

1990-1992: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL. 'Multi-modal person identification: Interaction effects of face, name and voice recognition', (£41,470, with Ellis).

1990-1992: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL. 'Cross-modal interference by speech: Factors affecting privileged access to memory', (£29,000).

1990-1992: DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION. 'Human factors in auditory interfaces', (£225,000).

1989-1992: DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION. 'Human factors of voice annotation', (Studentship and equipment donation) (£45,000).

1989-1991: MINISTRY OF DEFENCE. 'Human factors in multi-modal dialogues', (£62,000).

1988-1991: MINISTRY OF DEFENCE. 'Human factors in the design of command and control systems', (£283,000).

1988-1990: DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION (UK). 'Human factors of mixed modality', (£62,000, with Miles).

1988-1989: The Trade Union APEX. 'Computers in the workplace: A human factors analysis', (£16,900).

1986-1989: SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING RESEARCH COUNCIL. 'Human factors in the design of speech systems interfaces'. (£456,000).

1986-1989: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL. 'Interference of proofreading and short-term memory by irrelevant speech', (£31,006, with Miles).

1985-1988: MINISTRY OF DEFENCE. 'Human information processing under high work-load' (£157,124).

1985-1986: THE EUROPEAN FOUNDATION. 'Impact of new technology in the health services', (£19,376).

1984-1987: THE POST OFFICE. 'Human factors in coding desk operation', (£116,000).

1982-1986: MAY AND BAKER LTD. 'Effects of beta blockers on performance and mood', (£25,000).

1982-1983: THE EUROPEAN FOUNDATION. 'Stress of new technology in posts and telecommunications', (£11,950).

1980-1983: DHSS. 'Subjective tinnitus and the effectiveness of tailored masking', (£35,000, with Slater).

1978-1980: SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL. 'Social aspects and after-effects of performance in loud noise', (£9,986, with Chapman).

Research group

Helen Hodgett
Bill Macken
David Maidment

Research collaborators

Sebastien Tremblay , University   of Laval, Quebec, Canada
Fabrice Parmentier,   University of the Balearics, Majorca, Spain
Phillip   Beaman, University of Reading
Murray   Maybery, University of Western Australia
Patrik   Sörqvist, Centre for Built Environment, University of Gävle, Gävle,   Sweden

Postgraduate research interests

1) Auditory distraction and attentional capture, especially the effects of   perceptual organizational processes on cognition, particularly short-term   memory.
2) Serial short-term memory, particularly distinctions between   spatial and verbal memory.
3) The role of auditory perceptual organization   in phenomena ordinarily ascribed to auditory buffer storage.

If you are interested in applying for a PhD, or for further information regarding my postgraduate research, please contact me directly (contact details available on the 'Overview' page), or submit a formal application.

Current students

A. St John (secondary supervision)

Previous students

R. Thomas, SERC, PhD 1983 - Director, Fire Research Program, National   Research Council, Canada
C.   Miles, University, PhD 1983  now Senior Lecturer Cardiff University
J. Williams,   ESRC, PhD 1987   now Professor Cardiff University
A. Kechroud, Algerian Govt., PhD 1986    now Professor Saudi Arabia
T.   C. Auburn, Research Staff, PhD 1987  now Principal Lecturer Plymouth University
S. Kilminster, May and   Baker Ltd, PhD 1987  now Company Director Pharmacology Research
D.   Clark, SERC, PhD 1989  now Industry Programme Manager, European Bioinformatics Unit, Cambridge
C. Madden, Research Staff, MPhil 1989
K.   Coyle, NI DoE, PhD 1990  now lecturer University of Ulster
J. Bradshaw, ESRC, PhD 1991
G. Chamberlain,   MPhil 1992 - Head of Human Factors Research, Post Office Research, Swindon – now   retired
J. Pollock, CASE, PhD 1993
P.   Tucker, Digital Ltd, PhD 1993   now Senior Lecturer, University of Swansea
G. Stuart, SERC, PhD 1995  now Senior Lecturer York St John University
A.   Murray, Research Staff, PhD 1995  now Principal Lecturer, UWIC
P.   Farrand, University of Wales, PhD 1996  now Senior Teaching Fellow, University of Exeter
A. Bridges, ESRC, PhD   1997 now Professor and Dean Central Queensland University
P. Brawn, SERC, PhD 1998  now Director 'Eyetracker' Sydney Australia
P. Beaman,   University of Wales, PhD 1998  now Senior Lecturer, University of Reading
W.   Macken, Research Staff, PhD 1998  now Reader, Cardiff University
N. Mosdell, Research Staff, MPhil   1998*  now Senior Lecturer Cardiff University
R. Ruddle, Research   Staff, PhD 1998  now Senior Lecturer University of Leeds
G. Rogers, British   Aerospace, MPhil 1998  now consultant Kaisen Consulting
C.   Cowley, Research Staff, PhD 1999  now Senior Lecturer University of Bournemouth
M. Doyle, CASE, PhD1998 *   Royal Holloway and Bedford College, University of London
S. Tremblay, ORS, PhD 1999  now Professor University of Laval
D. Alford,   BBSRC CASE, PhD 1999  now freelance researcher
F.   Parmentier, ESRC, PhD 2000  now Professor University of Ballearics
A. Nicholls, BBSRC, PhD 2001  - Research Manager Nite-Works and Qinetic plc
R.   Houghton, EPSRC CASE PhD 2002* now Research Fellow University of Manchester
R. Hughes, ESRC Competition, PhD   2003   now Lecturer Cardiff University
H. Hodgetts, Cardiff University, PhD 2005  now Researcher University of Laval
P.   Morgan, ESRC Competition Award, PhD 2005   now Senior Lecturer University of Newport
G. Green, BBSRC CASE PhD   2005* now researcher Cardiff University
A Woodward, Cardiff University staff, PhD 2006*   now Research Associate Cardiff University
G. Lloyd, Cardiff   University, MSc 2006*
J.   Marsh, Cardiff University, PhD 2006   now Research Associate Cardiff University
J. Burton, Cardiff University, PhD 2011
M.   Kozlov (secondary supervision)