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. 1998
  2. Published

    Visual determinants of the leftward cradling bias: a preliminary report

    Matheson, E. A. & Turnbull, O., 1998, In: Laterality. 3, 3, p. 283-8

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Published

    Rotated Drawing: The Range of Performance and Anatomical Correlates in a Series of 16 Patients

    Solms, M., Turnbull, O., Kaplan-Solms, K. & Miller, P., Dec 1998, In: Brain and Cognition. 38, 3, p. 358-368

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  4. 1999
  5. Published

    The quantitative analyses of copy drawing and drawing from memory in brain-damaged patients

    Leek, C., Turnbull, O. & Tainturier, MJ., 1999, In: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. p. 37-37

    Research output: Contribution to journalMeeting Abstractpeer-review

  6. Published

    Motor and perceptual factors in pseudoneglect

    MacLeod, M. S. & Turnbull, O., 1 Jun 1999, In: Neuropsychologia. 37, 6, p. 707-713

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  7. 2000
  8. Published

    Personal memories of experimental psychology and psychoanalysis.

    Turnbull, O. H., 1 Jan 2000, In: Neuropsychoanalysis. 2, p. 258-259

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  9. Published

    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. 267-287

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  10. Published

    Loss of stored knowledge of object structure: Implications for 'category-specific' deficits.

    Turnbull, O. H. & Laws, K. R., 1 Jun 2000, In: Cognitive Neuropsychology. 17, 4, p. 365-389

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  11. 2001
  12. Published

    Cognitive neuropsychology comes of age.

    Turnbull, O. H., 1 Jan 2001, In: Cortex. 37, 3, p. 445-450

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  13. Published

    Neuropsychology

    Turnbull, O. H., 1 Jan 2001, An Encyclopaedia of Psychology. 2001 ed. Grolier Educational, p. 94-99

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  14. Published

    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. 293-301

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  15. Published

    Research Digest: Emotion, repression and psychiatry.

    Turnbull, O. H., 1 Jan 2001, In: Neuropsychoanalysis. 3, p. 257-261

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  16. Published

    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. 21-28

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  17. Published

    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. 178-186

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  18. Published

    The neuropsychology that would have interested Freud most

    Turnbull, O. H., 1 Jan 2001, In: Neuropsychoanalysis. 3, p. 33-38

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  19. Published

    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. 81-108

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  20. 2002
  21. Published

    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. 296-305

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  22. Published

    Implicit awareness of deficit in anosognosia? An emotion-based account of denial of deficit

    Turnbull, O. H., Jones, K. & Reed-Screen, J., 1 Jan 2002, In: Neuropsychoanalysis. 4, p. 69-86

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  23. Published

    Orientation agnosia in pentagon copying

    Della Sala, S., Turnbull, O. H., Beschin, N. & Perini, M., 1 Jan 2002, In: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. 72, 1, p. 129-130

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  24. Published

    Predictive testing for Huntingtons' Disease: How does it impact on cognitive performance?

    Lucas, M. D., Turnbull, O. H., Berk, M. & Fritz, V. U., 1 Jan 2002, In: South African Journal of Psychology. 32, 3, p. 39-47

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  25. Published

    Research Digest: Decision-making, emotion, and cognitive neuropsychiatry.

    Turnbull, O. H., 1 Jan 2002, In: Neuropsychoanalysis. 4, p. 215-219

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  26. Published

    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/ReportBook

  27. Published

    Object recognition and object orientation in Alzheimer's disease

    Caterini, F., Della Sala, S., Spinnler, H., Stangalino, C. & Turnbull, O. H., 1 Apr 2002, In: Neuropsychology. 16, 2, p. 146-155

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  28. Published

    The leftward cradling bias and audition: Cross-modal confusion?

    Turnbull, O. H., 1 Sept 2002, In: Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition. 7, 4, p. 355-357

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  29. Published

    Predictive testing for Huntington's Disease: how does it impact on cognitive performance?

    Lucas, M. D., Turnbull, O., Berk, M. & Fritz, V. U., 1 Dec 2002, In: South African Journal of Psychology. 32, 3, p. 39-47

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  30. 2003
  31. Published

    Glossar

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

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter