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.

  1. A double dissociation between knowledge of object identity and object orientation

    Turnbull, O., Feb 1997, In: Neuropsychologia. 35, 4, p. 567-570

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  2. Published

    Dopamine, and the pleasures of creativity

    Turnbull, O. & Bowman, C. H., 2009, In: Philoctetes. 2, p. 39-42

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. 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. 61-63

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  4. 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. 497-502

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  5. Published

    Lateral bumping: A normal-subject analog of the behaviour of patients with hemi-spatial neglect?

    Turnbull, O. & McGeorge, P., 1998, In: Brain and Cognition. 37, 1, p. 31-33

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Glossar

    Turnbull, O., 2003, Neuro-Psychoanalys: Eine Einführung mit Fallstudien. 2 ed. p. 285-296

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  7. Published

    Animal minds: The case for emotion, based on neuroscience

    Turnbull, O. H. & Bär, A., 2020, In: Neuropsychoanalysis. 22, 1-2, p. 109-128

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  8. Ambient temperature and the occurrence of collective violence: A South African replication

    Tyson, G. A. & Turnbull, O., 1990, In: South African Journal of Psychology. 20, 3, p. 159-162

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  9. The taxonomic perspective: The neuropsychological diagnosis of dementia

    Venneri, A., Turnbull, OH. & DellaSala, S., 1996, In: European Review of Applied Psychology. 46, 3, p. 179-188

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  10. Published

    Attention and emotion in anosognosia: Evidence of implicit awareness and repression?

    Ward, R. A., Nardone, I., Ward, R., Fotopoulou, A. & Turnbull, O. H., 1 Oct 2007, In: Neurocase. 13, 5-6, p. 438-445

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review