Professor Oliver Turnbull
Deputy Vice-Chancellor
Contact info
Roles: Pro Vice Chancellor (Teaching & Learning)
Professor of Neuropsychology
Telephone: 01248 383670
Email: o.turnbull@bangor.ac.uk
Office: Professors Corridor, Main Arts Building
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Oliver_Turnbull2
Prof Turnbull is a neuropsychologist, with an interest in emotion and its many consequences for mental life. He is also a clinician, whose work is with patients with neurological lesions, especially those who have suffered cerebro-vascular accident (stroke) and traumatic brain injury.
His scientific interests include:
(i) emotion-based learning, including the experience that we describe as 'intuition'
(ii) the role of emotion in delusional beliefs, especially in neurological patients
(iii) the neuroscience of psychotherapy
(iv) the management and control of emotion, often called emotion regulation
(v) emotional memory, and its preservation even in profound amnesia.
He is the author of roughly 150 publications on these topics, and (together with Mark Solms) is the co-author of the popular science book 'The Brain and the Inner World' (now translated into 11 languages). For many years, he was the Editor of the interdisciplinary journal Neuropsychoanalysis, and Secretary of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society.
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Memory, amnesia and intuition.
Turnbull, O. H., Solms, M. & Green, V. (ed.), 1 Jan 2003, Emotional Development in Psychoanalysis: Attachment Theory and Neuroscience. 2003 ed. Taylor & Francis, p. 55-85Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Research Digest: Affect, empathy, and self-awareness
Turnbull, O. H. & Baird, J., 1 Jan 2003, In: Neuropsychoanalysis. 5, p. 231-234Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The leftward cradling bias and hemispheric asymmetry for speech prosody
Turnbull, O. H. & Bryson, H. E., 1 Jan 2001, In: Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain, and Cognition. 6, 1, p. 21-28Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The processing of visuo-spatial information: Neuropsychological and neuroimaging investigations
Turnbull, O. H., Denis, M., Mellet, E., Ghaem, O. C., Logie, R. (ed.), Cornoldo, C. (ed.), de Vega, M. (ed.) & EngelKamp, J. (ed.), 1 Jan 2001, Imagery: Language and Visuo-spatial Thinking. 2001 ed. Psychology Press, p. 81-108Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Failure to discriminate between mirror-image objects: A case of viewpoint-independent object recognition?
Turnbull, OH. & McCarthy, RA., 1996, In: Neurocase. 2, 1, p. 63-71Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Left-sided cradling
Turnbull, O. & Matheson, E. A., 7 Sept 1996, In: The Lancet. 348, 9028, p. 691-692Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Dopamine, and the pleasures of creativity
Turnbull, O. & Bowman, C. H., 2009, In: Philoctetes. 2, p. 39-42Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Notes on neuroscientific terminology.
Turnbull, O. H., Kaplan-Solms, K. (ed.) & Solms, M. (ed.), 1 Jan 2001, Clinical Studies in Neuro-Psychoanalysis: Introduction to a Depth Neuropsychology. 2001 ed. Karnac Books, p. 293-301Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Awareness, desire, and false beliefs: Freud in the light of modern neuropsychology.
Turnbull, O. H. & Solms, M., 1 Nov 2007, In: Cortex. 43, 8, p. 1083-1090Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Research Digest: Emotion, placebo and ethics in neuroscience
Turnbull, O. H., 1 Jan 2003, In: Neuropsychoanalysis. 5, p. 119-121Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Emotion-based learning: Insights from the Iowa Gambling Task
Turnbull, O. H., Bowman, C. H., Shanker, S. & Davies, J. L., 21 Mar 2014, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 5Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Confabulation: Developing the ‘emotion dysregulation’ hypothesis
Turnbull, O. & Salas, C. E., Feb 2017, In: Cortex. 87, p. 52-61Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Depth psychological consequences of brain damage.
Turnbull, O. H., Solms, M. & Panksepp, J. (ed.), 1 Jan 2003, A Textbook of Biological Psychiatry. 2003 ed. John Wiley & Sons, p. 571-596Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Tell me, where is [this] fancy bred? The cardiac and cerebral accounts of the lateral cradling bias.
Turnbull, O. H., Lucas, M. D., Mandal, M. K. (ed.), Bulman-Fleming, M. B. (ed.) & Tiwari, G. (ed.), 1 Jan 2000, Side Bias: A neuropsychological perspective. 2000 ed. Springer, p. 267-287Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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The Brain and The Inner World: An Introduction to the Neuroscience of Subjective Experience
Turnbull, O. H. & Solms, M., 1 Jan 2002, Other Press.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Rotated drawing: a mini mental state examination performance with strong lateralising significance
Turnbull, O., Della Sala, S. & Beschin, N., 1997, In: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. 62, p. 419-420Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Big issues, little issues... and non-issues.
Turnbull, O. H. & Solms, M., 1 Nov 2007, In: Cortex. 43, 8, p. 116-1121Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Bridging the gap between neuroscience and psychoanalysis
Turnbull, O. H., Lovett, V. E., Fotopoulou, A. (ed.), Pfaff, D. (ed.) & Conway, M. A. (ed.), 17 May 2014, From the Couch to the Lab: Trends in Psychodynamic Neuroscience. 2014 ed. Oxford University Press, p. 186-206Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Personal memories of experimental psychology and psychoanalysis.
Turnbull, O. H., 1 Jan 2000, In: Neuropsychoanalysis. 2, p. 258-259Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Translation of the Luria Neuropsychological Investigation into Zulu: Its Relationship to the Work of A.R. Luria and L.S. Vygotsky
Turnbull, O. & Bagus, R., 1991, In: South African Journal of Psychology. 21, 1, p. 61-63Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Agnosia for object orientation: Naming and mental rotation evidence
Turnbull, O. H., Della Sala, S. & Beschin, N., 1 Jan 2002, In: Neurocase. 8, 4, p. 296-305Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The leftward cradling bias and prosody: an investigation of cradling preferences in the deaf community.
Turnbull, O. H., 1 Jan 2001, In: Journal of Genetic Psychology. 162, 2, p. 178-186Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Agnosia for object orientation: Implications for theories of object recognition
Turnbull, O., Beschin, N. & Della Sala, S., Jan 1997, In: Neuropsychologia. 35, 2, p. 153-163Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Neglect: Mirror, mirror on the wall – is the left side there at all?
Turnbull, O., 1 Nov 1997, In: Current Biology. 7, 11, p. R709-R711Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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When is a view unusual? A single case study of orientation-dependent visual agnosia
Turnbull, O. & McCarthy, R. A., 1996, In: Brain Research Bulletin. 40, 5-6, p. 497-502Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review